Faculty Wins Funds for Global Health Engagement Project in Liberia

Dr. Jody Lori, Director of the Office of Global Outreach, continues her career of global healthcare work and research.

Dr. Jody Lori, clinical assistant professor and director of the Office of Global Outreach at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, was selected to receive a Junior Faculty Global Health Engagement project award from the U-M Center for Global Health. Dr. Lori will use these funds to explore the feasibility of teaching midwives with low literacy levels to use cell phones to report data regarding maternal and newborn healthcare outcomes in Liberia, a country with extremely high maternal mortality rates. By creating a reliable mechanism to transfer data and knowledge in a low resource country, Dr. Lori will help increase the capacity for future global research.

The U-M Center for Global Health seeks to “generate novel approaches and partnerships that improve health and redress pressing health inequalities. Through its research, training, and service activities, the center is centrally concerned with work that aims to promote global health equity." One of their many initiatives working to this end, the Junior Faculty Engagement Program offers monetary resources to launch new research activities in global health. More specifically, the Center for Global Health intends that the award will support the development of successful and productive collaborative projects with the end goal that this work will lay the foundation for additional global health collaborations and engagements.