Discovery Projects

Karen Kikuta and Discovery partners
Karen Kikuta, ’26 (third from right), with her Discovery in-country mentors at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A list of recent projects from Global Health Discovery students can be found below.

2025 Global Health Discovery Projects Country
Leptospirosis, Dengue, or Something Else? An Epidemiologic Investigation Following the Historic 2024 Floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Brazil
Academic, Social, Behavioral and Emotional Well-Being Assessment in a Prospective Cohort of Normocephalic Children with Antenatal Zika Virus Exposure Brazil
Mixed-methods Assessment of Geospatial Injury Patterns across Limbe, Cameroon to support Lay First Responder Pilot Cameroon
Application of an Organizational Framework to define gaps and opportunities in Surgical Systems Undergoing Quality Improvement Ethiopia
Exploring Digital Health Education and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy: Insights from Ghana Ghana
Interprofessional Student Run Free Clinic for NCD Screening in Ghana Ghana
Antimicrobial Stewardship Provider Interview at Saturday Outreach Shelters and Clinics in Tijuana, Mexico. Mexico
Expanding Access to Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Through Community-Engaged Medical Education in Guadalajara, Mexico Mexico
Concordance between point-of-care nucleic acid tests and conventional DNA-PCR for Early Infant Diagnosis in HIV-exposed Mozambican infants on enhanced postnatal antiretroviral prophylaxis Mozambique
Sociocultural barriers to and facilitators of HIV status disclosure by mothers of hospitalized infants to their partners in northern and southern Mozambique Mozambique
Assessment of Surgical Systems in Climate Vulnerable Countries: How Can the Philippines Adopt Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Surgical Care Philippines
Implementation of Injectable Cabotegravir PrEP during Pregnancy and Postpartum in Cape Town, South Africa: Lessons from PrEPared to Choose and SCOPE-PP South Africa
Developing an Integrative Prehabilitation Program in Facial Feminization Surgerytelligence-based Objective Structured Clinical Examination in the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship: A pilot program United States
Impact of Psychological Prehabilitation on Surgical Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression United States
Atlantis Healthcare Chronic Disease Management Project United States
Acceptability of an artificial intelligence-based Objective Structured Clinical Examination in the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship: A pilot program United States
Improving the Coverage and Adherence of Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation among Pregnant Women in Afghanistan United States/Afganistan
Optimizing Mental Health Resource Allocation in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Framework for Pediatric Disaster Mental Health Implementation and Health Equity Assessment Following the Catastrophic Dam Breech in Derna, Libya United States/Libya
2024 Global Health Discovery Projects Country
Implementing a Primary Care Monitoring and Evaluation System: Lessons from Armenia Armenia
Prevalence of fungal infections in a retrospective pat The Gambia
Newborn Screening for Congenital Heart Diseases using Pulse Oximetry and the Newborn Clinical Examination at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Ghana
Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease Screening and Physical Exam at Ghanaian Tertiary Medical Centers Ghana
Identifying Core Components of a Male-Specific Person-Centered Care Intervention for Scale-Up in Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Low-Resource Settings Malawi
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Outreach Clinics in Tijuana Mexico
Laboratory Pneumocystis jirovecii Diagnosis in Infants Hospitalized with Severe HIV-Associated Pneumonia Using Non-Invasive Samples Mozambique
Bedside Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in HIV-positive infants hospitalized with severe pneumonia Mozambique
Health or Livelihood? How Men Living with HIV in Malawi Experience and Navigate Decisions Between Livelihood Generation and ART Refills South Africa
Building Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Capacity at a Major Tanzanian Tertiary Hospital: Lessons from the Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer Project Tanzania
Developing an Integrative Prehabilitation Program in Facial Feminization Surgery United States
IJ and Lung-POCUS to Screen for Heart Failure in Street Medicine Settings United States
Pancreatic Transplant Equity: Current Waitlist and Recipient Trends from 2015 to 2022 United States
The World of Contraception: A Global Mapping Project United States
Assessing the Needs of Women Who Use Substances With, or Are at Risk of, HIV in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Field evaluation of a point-of-care test for syphilis within an HIV PrEP program in Hanoi Vietnam