| Type: | research institute |
| Purpose: | Research and education about global health. |
| Headquarters: | Umeå, Sweden |
| Language: | English, Swedish |
| Leader Title: | Director |
| Leader Name: | Peter Byass |
| Main Organ: | Department of Epidemiology and Global Health |
| Parent Organization: | Umeå University |
| Affiliations: | The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) |
| Umeå Centre for Global Health Research | |
| Abbreviation: | UCGHR |
| Location: | Norrland University Hospital |
The Umeå Centre for Global Health Research (UCGHR) was a centre of excellence within Umeå University in northern Sweden. The centre operated within the university's Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, and was led by a steering group chaired by a principal investigator.
UCGHR sought to engage with a global agenda on health research and practice, addressing critical issues in global health and facilitating collaboration between and within the North and South. The centre's long-term research programme has been developed against a background of international epidemiological research, as well as public health work within Sweden.
The centre was responsible for publishing the open-access academic journal Global Health Action.
Research conducted within UCGHR was interdisciplinary in nature, with staff and students working together from backgrounds in demography, public health sciences, epidemiology, medicine, economics, statistics and sociology. Research activities were clustered around five areas of expertise:
Many of UCGHR's research projects were linked to INDEPTH (the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health), a network of field sites in countries across Africa, Asia and South America. This network provides a platform to share and exchange vital health data between some of the world's poorest countries and enables comparative studies of global research questions related to disease development, urbanisation and migration as well as opportunities to develop methods and evaluate interventions.[3]
Research training was essential to UCGHR. The Swedish Research School for Global Health was the result of a partnership between the centre and the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. The school seeks to achieve multidisciplinary collaboration in education, research and training by coordinating courses and seminars in global health, and improving the quality of research training.