GLOBAL HEALTH GROUP INTERNATIONAL

providing technical support globally

linking health, environment, and sustainability

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About Global Health Group International
Global Health Group International (GHGI) provides technical support globally linking health, environment, and sustainability.
Through a transdisciplinary approach, we work with universities, governments and international agencies to share solutions on sustainability that improve our environment and human health.

Our Mission

To advance understanding and application of transdisciplinarity and ecosystem based approaches to global health challenges.

Our Goals

Our goal is to create and disseminate knowledge that can inspire behavior change and leadership not only among decision makers but also local communities and vulnerable populations to implement the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our Aims

We aim to help advance a better scientific understanding and policy basis for global health defined broadly as the integrity and well-being of Planet — all people, animals and their ecosystems, equitably — thus promoting hope, health, and the sharing of sustainable solutions.

Our Team

Our team consists of a group of dedicated people with years of combined experience working towards positive change in this field.
Our Work

Integrative Research and Intervention

We assist, lead, or otherwise facilitate integrative research and interventions
targeting specific global health challenges—emphasizing evidence-based applied research and practice—spanning clinical, laboratory, field, and community research and practice settings.

Capacity-Building & Education

We are collaborating with academic and governmental institutions to deliver technical and conceptual tools needed by professionals and students, helping build capacity of highly qualified personal capable of understanding and addressing the complex real-life problems our societies are facing.

Through its staff and affiliated researchers, GHGI has worked throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America. Europe and the US, developing and jointly implementing research and training projects mostly focused on capacity-building for Ecohealth and One Health approaches to zoonotic disease prevention and control.

Since its establishment, GHGI has conducted collaborative projects including training events with many domestic and international agencies and organizations. GHGI scientists’ areas of expertise include ecosystem approaches to health, and transdisciplinary research and intervention including community participatory methods for zoonotic disease prevention and control, community based biodiversity conservation, and human and veterinary public health.

Our Journey Highlights

2011

Global Health Group International (GHGI) team sets up office in affiliation with Mahidol University Public Health (MUPH) in 2011 to foster integrative research and education at the regional and global levels.

2012

Emerging Zoonotic Diseases Short Course series delivered in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia developed as a collaboration of GHGI and Tufts University, as the first transdisciplinary capacity-building program among Southeast Asian leading medical and veterinary universities.

2012-13

Partnership with International Livestock Research Institute advances application of ecosystem approach to zoonotic disease research and control at leading veterinary schools in Thailand and Indonesia.

2014

Provided the key technical support for a transdisciplinary, social-ecological systems model-based study that uncovered the underlying cause of the avian influenza pandemic.

2015

Developed the first explicit protocol for applying the transdisciplinary-ecosystem approach to be formally adopted by a World Health Organization (WHO) unit, and the key technical support role in developing WHO’s first vector borne disease program around transdisciplinary protocol.

2016

Initiated partnership with CIRAD, the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization, and the Royal Zoological Park Organization to develop an international meeting series and policy research program on biodiversity and health.

2017

Culminated a four-year effort facilitating transdisciplinary research that resulted in rethinking causes high liver cancer rates and liver fluke infection in Northeast Thailand, providing a new foundation for more community participatory-based approached to rural health in the region.

2019

We are moving our SEA headquarters to Mahidol University’s Salaya campus to partner with the ASEAN Institute for Health Development (AIHD). In addition, GHGI has partnered with WHO TDR to lead technical consultation for a ground-breaking effort to operationalize One Health to address vector borne disease (VBD) challenges in Africa.

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