University of Hawaii hosted COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students at Manoa campus kitv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kitv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UH strongly encourages everyone to get vaccinated to protect the entire campus community.
“I came down here to get vaccinated because I saw the email the school sent out and I thought it would be a good opportunity,” said
UH Mānoa student
Cameron Malalis. “I wanted to be part of that. I really want to go back to school in the fall.”
Fellow student
Bastien Rasse, who also received the vaccine, agreed.
“The school gave me the opportunity to get it and I thought, might as well,” said Rasse. “I really miss attending classes and everything and I think it is good that we get that back.”
U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands. The session drew more than 100 participants from around the world through Zoom. It was the first time
UH has presented at the conference since becoming a member of
CUGH in 2018.
“By virtue of its geographic location and longstanding partnerships with academic institutions and ministries of health in the Asia-Pacific region,
UH is strategically positioned to provide a Pacific-focused perspective to the global health conversation,” said
Aimee Grace, director of the
UH Office of Strategic Health Initiatives and lead organizer for the event. “We are honored to have had the opportunity to exchange knowledge and resources with our colleagues around the globe.”
SONDH) has been selected to join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (
CUGH) Board of Directors. Professor
Kristine Qureshi, associate dean for research and global health, was selected from a group of more than 80 applications. Her three-year term will begin in April 2021.
Qureshi will help support
CUGH to strengthen its academic global health community of 179 member institutions from around the world engaged in addressing health challenges to improve the well-being of people and the planet.
UH became a member institution in 2018 as part of the UHealthy Hawaiʻi initiative, which seeks to leverage the
UH System to improve health and health care in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, and with the vision of
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