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Pericles Lewis and ALA officials
03/18/19

In South Africa, VP Pericles Lewis visits African Leadership Academy

  While traveling in Africa over spring break, Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, visited the African Leadership Academy (ALA) campus in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Co-founded in 2004 by Yale ...
Pericles Lewis visits Makerere University
03/13/19

Bonds of MUYU partnership strengthened during Makerere University visit

Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, visited Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (MUK) on March 13 to meet with university leaders, alumni, and medical residents. By their accounts, the Makerere University-Yal...
Lewis touring PTI facilities
03/12/19

Supporting Primary Health Care Transformation initiative (PTI), Yale VP visits health center in Ethiopia

Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, visited a health center site in East Shoa, Ethiopia on March 12 in support of the Yale-led Primary Healthcare Transformation Initiative (PTI). PTI was funded with a three-year, $7...
Dr. Amir Aman Hagos
03/12/19

Dr. Amir Aman Hagos, Yale GHLI alumnus, leading Ethiopia’s health care agenda

Dr. Amir Aman Hagos, Ethiopia’s newest minister of health, is one of the youngest heath care influencers on the African continent. Since his appointment in April, Hagos has focused tirelessly on establishing a culture of transparency, performance management, and accounta...
Pericles Lewis trip to Africa
03/11/19

On first leg of trip to Africa, Pericles Lewis participates in women’s leadership forum event in Ethiopia

  Pericles Lewis, Yale University’s vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, is pictured above with participants of the Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact. The forum — supported by La Fundación Mujeres po...
Dr. Lia Tadesse
03/11/19

Yale GHLI alumna leads efforts for more equitable heath care in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s Minister of Health Dr. Amir Aman Hagos was so impressed with Dr. Lia Tadesse’s commitment to improving the country’s health care delivery system that he named her the newest state minister of health. Tadesse is one of the first graduates of the Yal...
George Ssenyange
03/06/19

Sutton Lab researcher brings Yale experiences home to Uganda

Yale is known worldwide as an institution that successfully leverages the power of partnerships and networks to transform the educational experiences and career opportunities of students, while also producing remarkable outcomes in science and global health.  George Ssen...
03/04/19

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’08 M.A. to speak at Class Day

The celebrated novelist and essayist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who received her master of arts in African studies from Yale in 2008, will be this year’s Class Day speaker, members of the Yale College Class of 2019 have announced. Class Day, scheduled for the afternoon o...
Doreen Adengo ’05
02/18/19

School of Architecture alumna leads African Modernism exhibition in Uganda

  In her hometown of Kampala, Uganda, Doreen Adengo ’05 M. Arch. co-curated a chapter of ‘African Modernism’–an exhibition that documents how African nations celebrated their postcolonial identity through architecture.   In the late 195...
Dr. Christine Ngaruiya
02/13/19

Yale doctor helps highlight need for worldwide focus on ‘silent killers’

  In today’s world, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancers, heart and respiratory disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s — to name just a few — have quietly emerged as a pandemic of silent killers to collectively become the leading cause of ...

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