Global Health Academy opens in Scotland

A new research and teaching academy for global health has opened at the University of Edinburgh.

The Global Health Academy brings together staff from across the University to collaborate on global health challenges including obesity, pandemic flu, tuberculosis, diabetes and tropical diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness and rabies.

It aims to be a portal for both UK wide and global research groups and collaborations wishing to create networks within Health and strengthen their approach to donors and funding agencies - helping to establish research hubs with international partners.

Membership is open to all scholars, tutors, researchers and teaching staff from any institution.

The Global Health Academy will be the first in a series of academies launched by the University. Others will focus on climate change and international development.

The University is also launching the Julius Nyerere Scholarship, named after the Edinburgh graduate and first President of Tanzania, which will provide funding for Tanzanian students to attend the University.

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