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DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2026 — Despite rapid advances in digital health, artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring, many promising health technologies still fail to reach patients who need them most. To help close that gap, the American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone, everywhere, is now accepting applications for…

Feinberg faculty are helping strengthen the next generation of healthcare professionals far beyond Chicago. Through a longstanding collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, medical educators at Feinberg support a sustainable approach to global health: training educators who will go on to teach thousands of future physicians, nurses and other health professionals. 

Physician-scientist Basmah Safdar, MD, has long viewed—and practiced—women’s health as precision medicine. Every cell has a sex. Accordingly, a precision health perspective demonstrates that there are fundamental differences between men and women in almost every health and disease that dictate clinical care. Inadequate sex-specific data drives healthcare inefficiencies and higher costs due to missed or…

Reducing the global burden of disease is crucial for improving health outcomes. However, misalignment between health aid and country-level disease burden leaves vulnerable populations without the necessary support for major health challenges, particularly in the least developed countries. Here, we develop a machine learning pipeline using large language models to track flows in official development…