Aimee Grace News Today

The University of Hawaii’s Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity has received a $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The initiative places an emphasis on implementing innovative and culturally appropriate frameworks to prevent and improve disparities in chronic diseases.

The Center on Aging will facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research between faculty at the two institutions.

Shortly after his retirement, former students and friends created the Professor Robert Grace Endowment for Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The UH Rural Health Research and Policy Center was established with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Kamuela Enos gave an update on the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity to the Board of Regents on October 6.

In this edition, we feature a handful of the upcoming sessions that we’re looking forward to hosting at the 2022 Hawaii State of Reform Health Policy Conference.

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, direct...

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 an...