The Dickey Center for International Understanding in collaboration with Dartmouth Medical School has established the Dartmouth Global Health Initiative, the aim of which is to create multidisciplinary, replicable programs in Global Health that can address the serious health concerns of the resource-limited settings and create opportunities for Dartmouth students, faculty and researchers to learn about and address these global health concerns.

Dartmouth’s GHI: Focus on Tanzania

The first step in this initiative has been to partner with the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences  (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with whom Dartmouth Medical School has previously built a solid relationship.

The DARDAR programs encompass a clinical drug trial of a vaccine designed to reduce death from HIV associated tuberculosis, a pediatric AIDS clinic, and a Dartmouth-Boston University AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) designed to provide degree and non-degree training programs for Tanzania scientist and health care professionals.  Learn more about the DARDAR programs here.

All of the GHI programs build on areas of Dartmouth strengths reflected in the College and in the graduate schools in areas such as infectious disease research, community and family medicine, health education, information technology and enterprise development training.