health equity

  1. December 4, 2024

    Global health equity center receives additional $10M donation

    A $10 million gift to U-M’s Center for Global Health Equity has led to the center’s directorship being named for Tachi and Leslie Yamada, who have played pivotal roles in its launch and development.

  2. October 2, 2024

    U-M to be a research hub for health equity work

    The School of Public Health will receive $6.75 million to establish a health equity research hub to help strengthen efforts to reverse health disparities. U-M is one of five institutions sharing $37 million from the National Institutes of Health.

  3. May 17, 2023

    Michigan Medicine addresses adolescent and child health-care inequities

    Michigan Medicine has launched a first-of-its-kind program to identify and address equity issues for young patients and their families receiving care at U-M Health, throughout Michigan and across the nation.

  4. November 16, 2022

    School of Public Health announces two new interdisciplinary initiatives

    The School of Public Health has launched two new initiatives under its Public Health IDEAS umbrella that will focus on preventing the spread of infectious diseases and building health equity.

  5. October 17, 2019

    $10M gift fuels U-M efforts to improve the world’s health

    A new $10 million gift from Tadataka and Leslie D. Yamada will fund the U-M Center for Global Health Equity, which will help make a greater positive impact by addressing health inequities in the poorest nations.

  6. January 8, 2018

    Adewale Troutman to deliver Health Sciences Lecture

    Adewale Troutman, a health equity advocate and public health expert, will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Health Sciences Lecture.