Why UChicago business students are learning about global health
Apr 9, 2021 Booth course and initiative foster interdisciplinary collaboration with UChicago Medicine
We often think of global health as something vast, but Prof. Olufunmilayo Olopade wants us to realize that impacting global health can be a local endeavor.
“We need to create new models for reaching the unreached: It doesn’t matter where they are,” she said.
This is one of the forces that guides Olopade’s work from her entrepreneurship, to the new class she launched with her husband, Prof. Christopher Sola Olopade. The two University of Chicago physicians realized that many health care scenarios can benefit from someone with business acumen, while most entrepreneurs lack connections to medical expertise.
$25 million gift to UChicago will support work on global health and social development
Feb 18, 2021 Commitment expands initiatives to address health challenges and social issues
A $25 million commitment to the University of Chicago from the Kiphart Family Foundation will expand global health and social development research and educational initiatives to address health inequities and their root causes in West Africa and in low- and middle-income communities around the world.
The gift will establish the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development, to be housed in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Led in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences Division, the Kiphart Center will bring together expertise from around the University in support of collaborative efforts with partner communities to alleviate disease, improve infrastructure, and promote community healt