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Michigan
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The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). |
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Michigan
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The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM). |
The Institute of International Health was established at Michigan State University in January 1987 to marshal university resources to address problems of world health and to serve as a center for information on world health issues. The IIH is a focal point at MSU for facilitating faculty and student research and academic interests in international health and for international health projects overseas. The IIH works with the health-related colleges, as well as with social and agricultural scientists, nutritionists, and a variety of interdisciplinary units, to foster and coordinate research, education, and development at the international level. Collaboration with these units enhances the IIH's ability to approach world health issues from a multidisciplinary perspective by enabling the Institute to draw expertise for its international operational requirements from many disciplines, providing inputs to the health sector in its broadest sense, from the medical sciences to nutrition and from the sociocultural correlates of health to the effects of the environment on human health. The IIH collaborates with MSU-affiliated community hospitals throughout the State of Michigan that are used for the clinical training of our medical students. These hospitals contribute health experts for IIH's overseas projects and hospital-based training for visiting foreign health professionals. The IIH is not a degree granting unit (see below).