# Global Health Equity Scholars Program - Montenegro-Idrogo

> **NIH NIH D43** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $87,307

## Abstract

PROGRAM SUMMARY
The objective of our LAUNCH program is to continue our global health research training program
called the Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) designed to create a new community of
researchers, educators, and professionals who are prepared to address new and emerging global
health challenges. We will build on the last nine years of this training program to create a cadre of
new researchers who will dedicate their research careers to address the health problems that arise
out of the inequity of human conditions prevalent in informal human settlements (slums). Rather
than addressing one disease at a time, we propose to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary,
and integrated approach to deal with urban and rural informal human settlement health issues,
developed over many years by the participating faculty members of this program. This program
will comprise four US partner institutions (Consortium)--Yale University, Stanford University,
University of Arizona, and University of California at Berkeley, each led by a leader in global health
research with more than 10 years of collaboration among themselves. Together, core faculty
mentors from these institutions conduct research at 25 institutions in 21 countries, representing
regions of Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Pacific, and Eastern
Europe. The GHES program will address a wide range of health research topics including
HIV/AIDs, emerging and high- consequence infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases
(NCD), women's health, environmental health, mental health, interpersonal violence, substance
abuse, injuries, and the interaction of all of these health issues within the framework of slum health.
Training will target US postdoctoral fellows and pre-doctoral students and low and middle-income
country (LMIC) postdoctoral fellows. We plan to recruit 9-10 trainees/year with 60% of them as US
postdoctoral fellows. The trainees will spend 8-12-months at an LMIC site under the supervisionof
the Consortium and their collaborating LMIC mentors. Workshops on global health research
methods, skill development and career development will be conducted both in-person and online.
LMIC trainees will spend 2-3 months at US institutionsto undergo training in methods not provided
at their institutions. All of the trainees will be provided with research and career mentorship
throughout their training and tracked for career development after completion of their GHES-
supported research work. Thus, under this program, we expect the trainees to be exposed to one
important theme in global health research--health equity--through research that deals with health
concerns of vulnerable populations residing in informal human settlements and provide them with
an opportunity to become experts in this new global health discipline. The overall impact of this
training programis, therefore, to create a new cadre of global health researchers and leaders who
address the emerging health...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11102403
- **Project number:** 3D43TW010540-08S5
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHELE BARRY
- **Activity code:** D43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $87,307
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-07-01 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11102403

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11102403, Global Health Equity Scholars Program - Montenegro-Idrogo (3D43TW010540-08S5). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11102403. Licensed CC0.

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