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Spring 2008: A new global partnership is strengthening public health training in India and providing opportunities for UM SPH faculty and students to deepen their understanding of the health issues confronting the world’s second most populous nation. A memorandum of understanding between the University of Michigan and KLE University, in Belgaum, a city of 43,000 in southern India, was signed by UM SPH dean Ken Warner and KLEU vice-chancellor Chandrakant Kokate in May 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, SPH faculty members will give lectures at the Institute of Public Health at KLEU, and KLEU will periodically send visiting scholars to Ann Arbor to sit in on lectures, labs, and discussion sessions at SPH. The students in India will have access to UM SPH's Certificate in the Foundations of Public Health online program. Graduate students from both institutions will also take part in educational exchanges.

“The emergence of formal institutions to train people in public health in India is a brand new development,” Warner says. “We’re excited to be in on the ground floor to help one of our fellow institutions of higher learning begin this critical form of education.”

Symposia

Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness and SPH Office of Public Health Practice presented:

• Grand Rounds: Public Health in China 2008
• Global Public Health Preparedness: Is it Possible? 2007
• Human Health & Animal Disease 2006
• Pandemic Influenza 2005
• SARS 2004

The Unversity of Michigan celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Polio Vaccine Announcement on April 12, 2005, proceedings and commemorative video retrospective.

An all-school symposium on 'Global Health: The Challenge of Inequality' brought University of Michigan School of Public Health students, faculty, and guests together in 2004 to address growing evidence of the ways in which the health of people in developed countries is increasingly linked to that of people in the Third World. It launched a course of inquiry to be continued formally and informally in classrooms, internships, and ensuing symposia.

UM SPH Office of Public Health Practice co-hosts forum for Chinese practitioners, in conjunction with opening of satellite office at Tianjin CDC in China.
May 19, 2008, UM SPH release