Restoring Sight in Patients at Home and Abroad
Lloyd Williams, M08, GBS08, developed a passion for providing care abroad while studying medicine at Tufts, and now travels regularly to developing nations to provide cataract and corneal surgeries
Are Mobile Health Tools a Panacea for Global Health Challenges?
Engineering and Tisch College professor Valencia Koomson is partnering with the University of Ghana on a study to use cell phones to fill gaps in hypertension management
In Panama Exchange, Medical Students Learn Through a Global Health Lens
Both Tufts and University of Panama students reflect on the ways a global health exchange has helped shape their career paths
Sugar-sweetened Beverage Intake Increasing Globally Among Children and Teens
Study estimates at least 10% of youth worldwide consume more than 7 servings of sugary drinks weekly
Announcing Global Tufts Month: March 1-31, 2025
The theme for Global Tufts Month in 2025 is "Global Health."
Tufts Global In the News
Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
New York Times
Fletcher’s Monica Duffy Toft notes similarities between United States-Russian diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine war and the geopolitical landscape at the end of World War II, in that “major powers are seeking to negotiate a new global order primarily with each other.”
A US-run system alerts the world to famines. It’s gone dark after Trump slashed foreign aid
CNN
Friedman School’s Daniel Maxwell says the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) “serves the US government, but it also serves the rest of the humanitarian community too. So, its absence will be felt pretty much right away.”
Humanitarian groups say foreign aid cuts will kill vulnerable people and hurt US interests
WGBH-TV
Cummings School’s Hellen Amuguni, director of the STOP Spillover program to monitor the global risk of zoonotic diseases with the potential to spill over into human pandemics, discusses the repercussions of losing the program’s USAID funding.