PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION

The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is a first-of-its-kind global health sciences university pioneering a new approach to education. Based in Rwanda, PIH launched this international university in 2015 with the mission to radically change the way health care is delivered around the work by training global health professional to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all. The graduates, emerge ready to tackle the world's most pressing health challenges. UGHE's flagship degree programs revolve around community health and social medicine. Students master social determinants of health, accompanying underserved patients, and delivering care in low-resourced communities. UGHE has graduated public health experts via the Master of Science in Global Health Delivery degree, and trains aspiring physicians through the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery program. The diverse student body is majority women and includes students from more than 30 countries building the health care workforce capacity in dozens of countries in Africa and beyond. This past year, UGHE was ranked 4th in the Times Higher Education rankings for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, up from 8th the previous year and received the highest score in the region for student engagement. This achievement highlights the continued dedication to excellence, equity, and innovation in global health education. In April, PBS News Hour traveled to Rwanda to highlight how UGHE is connecting people in remote communities to lifesaving care and educating the next generation of African healthcare providers who are committed to staying in and serving their communities. UGHE's campus in Rwanda's rural Burera District features strategic design elements to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. The hands-on educational environment includes an innovative clinical simulation center, fully equipped laboratory spaces, and teleconferencing facilities for remote instruction by leading clinicians. Planned expansions to the UGHE campus will add teaching and learning space, library and laboratory capacity, enhance the simulation center, broaden research capabilities, and extend student services. The campus is also intentionally located near PIH-supported Butaro Teaching Hospital, the first district-level teaching hospital in all of Rwanda, where UGHE medical students perform their clinical rotations.

In addition to the programs listed, PIH has programs in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, US, and Navajo Nation. Major expenditures in other programs include those for endTB, research, electronic medical records, monitoring and evaluation, and mental health.