Research at the Global Health Institute
The Global Health Institute encourages and supports interactions among faculty and students at UGA and beyond. Our faculty are engaged in diverse research projects in many different regions and countries throughout the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and North America.
These projects cover the topics of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Zika, Ebola, maternal and child health, birth defects, environmental exposures and cancer, mental health, alcohol and other substance use, traffic accidents and safety, and the effects of and responses to natural disasters. Researchers are funded through federal, state, and foundation grants.
Institute of AI
As part of the University of Georgia’s Institute for AI’s ongoing research, the Global Health Institute works to engage in interdisciplinary research. “Developing Multimodality Large Language Models for Telemedicine,” a proposal from GHI Director Juliet Sekandi, UGA School of Computing’s Tianming Liu and the College of Pharmacy’s Eugene Douglass, received funding in the IAI’s inaugural seed grant program.