The Center for Global Health is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to improving health and well-being through education, research and training, and service in partnership with communities in the United States and around the world.
The Kiphart Center advances research, training, and intervention to address global health, health equity, and social development around the world by bringing together expertise and resources from across UChicago to support innovative work that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of public health, medicine, and the social sciences.
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies coordinates, encourages, and stimulates study of the region extending from Morocco to Kazakhstan. It encompasses undergraduate and graduate degree programs and language studies, brings visiting scholars, and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas on all issues relating to the Middle East.
The Committee on African Studies brings together faculty and students from a variety of disciplines and scholarly perspectives who share an interest in engaging directly with the continent and its peoples, histories, cultures, and societies. We also share a commitment to the idea that Africa is critical to challenging and advancing social scientific and humanistic modes of inquiry.
More than three million years ago, a distant cousin of ours called Australopithecus afarensis was walking around on two legs—making the species a key chapter in the human story. The study, lead by Anthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged, takes a close look at the foot of Selam, a 3.3-million-year-old female A. afarensis that died before the age of four.
Researchers, including Chris Blattman, conducted a randomized evaluation with the Government of Uganda to measure the impact of the YOP on young adults’ employment, income, and general well being.
Diseases of poverty persist in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The global becomes local, as CGH-affiliated faculty pursue research on conditions that impact the health of women and children not only in LMIC but also in neighborhoods within University of Chicago Medicine's catchment area on the city of Chicago's south and west sides.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in partnership with the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, has developed a one-of-a-kind executive education program in El Gouna that will enhance how the public and private sectors do business in Egypt.
UChicago recently announced two new grant opportunities in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
