Community and Global Health

Making healthy communities a reality at home and around the world

The Department of Community and Global Health supports the health and wellbeing of communities around the world through exceptional teaching, research, and practice. Our faculty, staff, and students create opportunities for health and access with a global orientation and a strong local presence.

Discover our global health program offerings:

Academic programs

Bachelor of Science in Public Health

Protect our planet and human health! Accelerate solutions to the world's most complex and urgent global and environmental public health problems, including climate change and environmental stewardship. This program includes science requirements to apply to medical school.

Master of Public Health

Accelerate solutions to the world's most complex and urgent global and environmental public health problems, including climate change and environmental stewardship. Analyze and advocate for effective, sustainable policies and programs as well as the social, economic, political, and organizational conditions that comprise the environmental backdrop for health and well-being.

Master of Science in Global Health & Sustainable Development

Accelerate solutions to the world’s most complex and urgent global public health challenges. In this online program for early to mid-careerists, you will build a broad, contemporary foundation of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

DrPH in Global Health Leadership

Designed for mid- to senior-level professionals working full-time in field-based positions around the world. Highly motivated leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds hone skills necessary to influence policy or organizational change and help solve the most urgent, complex public health challenges of our time. Courses meet via synchronous Internet video.

Meet Community and Global Health faculty and staff

Impacting communities globally and locally

Study abroad

Join us as we travel the globe to Israel, Geneva, London, and Sweden to gain unique insights into global health by studying each country’s health system.

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Nordic Health Studies Program

A new innovative learning laboratory will allow students, faculty, staff, and alumni to engage in reciprocal learning with community and academic partners in Sweden and Norway.

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Diabetes Impact Project (DIP-IN)

An initiative to build resources and connections within communities of Indianapolis with the goal of preventing diabetes or better managing it so that people can live long and healthy lives.

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Worlds Further Apart

In this report we re-examine gaps in life expectancy in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Inequity, in life and health, “saps the strength of the whole society.”

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Your Life. Your Story.

This program helps Latino youth develop resilience to stress and a positive self-identity as bicultural citizens.

Learn more about Your Life. Your Story.

South Eastern European Health Studies program

A new international learning laboratory based in the Balkans that will allow students, faculty, staff and alumni to engage in reciprocal learning.

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FSPH around the world

Research and practice communities

Community Health Engagement and Equity Research (CHEER)

From the actionable research we conduct, to the experiential opportunities we provide to students, to the community partnerships and interventions we develop, our sole purpose is to make real-world impact in our communities near and far.

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IU Indianapolis ECHO Center

In the U.S. and around the world, people are not getting access to the specialty care they need, when they need it, for complex and treatable conditions. Through a technology-enabled collaborative learning, Project ECHO creates access to high-quality, specialty care in communities across Indiana, the nation, and around the world.

Learn more about ECHO Center