Global Health: Home

The Center for Global Initiatives works to increase student access to global opportunities at UNC and abroad. Through global programs and funding, we strive to remove barriers and connect students from all backgrounds to the world.

The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the largest global health programs in the United States. Working in more than 50 countries around the globe, we have made breakthrough discoveries — including the prevention of HIV transmission — while saving lives and offering critical training to thousands of health professionals in the U.S. and in resource-limited communities around the world.

The Office of Global Health Education (OGHE) develops programmatic structure, support, and engagement in global medical education for UNC medical students and resident physicians interested in global health. We are affiliated with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.

At the Gillings School, we work in all 100 North Carolina counties and in 45+ countries. Local and global health content infuses our courses and degrees. Through partnerships at home and abroad, our students and faculty transform health around the world and in our backyard. Our Research, Innovation and Global Solutions office promotes and advances the School's global health activities in research, service, practice and teaching through partnerships, internships, outreach and communications

UNC Global shapes and supports global activity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and its units further Carolina’s academic, cultural, and co-curricular programs; support international research, scholarship, partnerships, and linkages; and provide infrastructural support.