The UC Global Health Institute is launching with three centers of expertise, chosen through a competitive application process involving proposals from 12 teams of UC faculty. Center leaders will work with the administrative core at UCSF during the 2009-10 academic year to plan education, research and partnership programs and intervention activities. The three centers are:

• Migration and Health, co-directed by Steffanie Strathdee, UC San Diego associate dean of global health sciences and chief of the division of global public health, and Marc Schenker, M.D., public health sciences professor at UC Davis, with partner campuses Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA, Merced, Riverside, UCSF, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.
• One Health: Water, Animals, Food and Society, co-directed by Patricia Conrad, professor in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, and Anil Deolalikar, economics professor at UC Riverside, with partner campuses Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA, San Diego, UCSF, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.
• Women's Health and Empowerment, co-directed by Philip Darney, M.D., UCSF professor and chief of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive health sciences at San Francisco General Hospital, and Paula Tavrow, director of the Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health at the UCLA School of Public Health, with partner campuses Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and San Diego.

The centers will work closely with related UC efforts such as the Migration and Health Research Center at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, which was established in September, and the UC Davis-based PREDICT global early warning system, which is aimed at preventing the next pandemic.