Northwestern University is dedicated to collaborating with the best organizations and scholars in the world to advance cutting-edge research and help solve our most intractable global problems. The ...

During the 1990s, I was doing my medical training in India. Those days, we had a steady stream of American and European students visiting our medical school. They would stay for a few weeks, work on ...

The research agenda for global mental health and substance-use disorders has been largely driven by the exigencies of high health burdens and associated unmet needs in low- and middle-income countries ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that causes 1.3 million deaths and 10.6 million new active cases each year, yet experimental animal models of TB do not reproduce the full spectrum of ...

Around 57 of the 129 countries that have data on undernutrition and obesity are struggling with both 1. Everywhere, the consumption of vegetables, legumes, fish, nuts, seeds and fruits is much below ...

Increasing attention is being paid to the inequity that pervades global health research, which results from factors ranging from ignorance to colonialism and racism. 1 Academic and economic resources ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...

This grant is designed to support visiting scholars for a campus visit, which is normally expected to be 5-7 days. This program aims to foster an intellectual community for international collaboration ...

Cancer kills one in five people globally. Yet, except for a one-off increase in 2021, the flow of money for cancer research has trended downward every year since 2016. Our new analysis of more than ...

AI Investment Growth and Global Policy Shifts Poised to Drive Market Returns Despite Volatility NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 2025 has shown to be a strong year in markets—both in the US and ...

A new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based grazing systems—currently covering a third of Earth's surface and representing the world's ...