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UVA-SEWA Partnership
This experience has instilled in me an appreciation for the paramount importance of personal relationships to successful grassroots public health work. Simple, informal conversations undertaken in a spirit of friendliness and open exchange often yielded some of our most valuable and rewarding insights. The sevikas, or community health workers, were our models; their inexhaustible commitment to the health and well-being of their families, friends and neighbors was unrivaled. – Patrick Robinson
OUR MISSION
The University of Virginia's Center for Global Health promotes health in resource-limited settings by fostering the commitment of students, faculty and partners from many disciplines to address the diseases of poverty.
Chocolate as medicine. Learning about the natural traditional remedies in Guatemala's rich Mayan culture was enlightening and essential to understand the perception of health and wellness. Interestingly, such beliefs involve the medicinal use of cacao. Watching the chocolate process, one can see and feel the healing power of chocolate that is carefully and thoughtfully prepared from roasted cacao beans, cinnamon and various other spices.
Photo Credit: Emmanuel Abebrese, CGH Scholar 2017, Koforidua, Ghana
UVA Scholars working with school children about the importance of health.
Photo Credit: Helena Gallagher, CGH Scholar 2017, Hammanskraal, South Africa
Water and Health in Limpopo Innovations Postdoctoral Fellows and Univen Faculty 2016
Photo Credit: 2016 CGH Scholar Jessica Amick - Cambodia
Photo Credit: 2016 CGH Scholar Jessica Amick - Cambodia
The view from the Uganda Cancer Institute, a juxtaposition of the old and new.