GHS Professor Dr. Waltraud Maierhofer's article "Abortion in Sweden in in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost" is published in NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.

In this panel, we bring together individuals who work along the spectrum of care for disadvantaged groups to speak about their experiences while striving to improve health outcomes for all individuals in Iowa City.

2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights is Sunday, Monday, January 25th through Sunday, January 31. Please visit https://mlk.uiowa.edu/ to see events and activities.

The Global Health Studies Program is pleased to share the 2019-20 GHSP Annual Report.

Dr. Carly Nichols, Assistant Professor in Global Health Studies, has received funding through the Interdisciplinary, Scalable Solutions for a Sustainable Future Project for the 2020-21 academic year for research on sustainable food systems and COVID-19. ISSSF grants provide seed funding for the development of major external grant proposals in the environmental and sustainability sciences. The project is supported by the Office of the Provost, Provost Investment Fund and administered by the Office of Sustainability and the Environment.

Alberto Ortiz Díaz, assistant professor of history and global health studies at the University of Iowa, has been named a 2020-21 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He is spending the academic year at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras’ Institute of Caribbean Studies, researching and writing a book about incarceration in the modern Caribbean.

Professor Alberto Ortiz Díaz has been named a 2020-21 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He will be based at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras' Institute of Caribbean Studies working on his book manuscript, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, along with a few other projects.

Global Health Studies and Geography Assistant Professor Carly Nichols and Brandi Janssen (Occupational & Environmental Health) share their expertise on effects of Covid-19 on the food system, both at the commercial level and at the local level.

Every year Global Health Studies Honors students present posters about their research to a committee of faculty, as well as family and friends. Congratulations to all GHS honors students on their research! The committee expressed that all posters submitted represented highly commendable efforts worthy of Honors in GHS. The committee is pleased to announce the awards for the May 2020 Global Health Studies Honors Posters.

Lucas Fagre, who received a BS in global health and a BA in anthropology from the University of Iowa in May 2019, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in public health to Bulgaria and Romania for 2020-21.