This project has been sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment).
The Health Science Center Libraries are hosting the National Library of Medicine's traveling exhibition Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health between October 20 and November 21, 2025. You can see the exhibit in person at the Health Science Center Library in Gainesville October 20 - November 13 and at the Borland Library in Jacksonville November 14 - 21.
The Health Science Center Libraries in Gainesville and Jacksonville will host a photo exhibit that features images from faculty, students, or staff at UF that represent global health activities. We are soliciting photos from people affiliated with UF to include in this exhibit! If you've made a difference internationally, especially if it's related to health and well-being, we'd love to share your work in this display!
When submitting your photo, you will be asked to include information on the location of the photo, what is represented in the photo, and how you feel the photo represents global health. Please do not include any photos that contain personal or confidential information or any images that include people without their explicit consent. Photos must be uploaded by midnight September 29th, 2025, for inclusion.
Each person can submit up to two photos for the display. Photos can be black and white or color but must be uploaded as an electronic file (either a JPEG or TIFF file), with 300 dpi/ppi resolution, and 8x10' size. Selected photos will be printed and mounted on foam board for the display. The photo display will be shown at the HSC Library in Gainesville and then the Borland Library in Jacksonville this fall, and will live in the Borland Library after the traveling NLM exhibit leaves.
If you don't have a photo you want to contribute, but you want additional information about the event, please use the Qualtrics link listed below to send us your email, and we will keep in touch!
If you have any questions about the display, or about uploading photos, please contact alys.yng@ufl.edu.
Access the form at the link below or scan the QR code to submit your photos!
Pictured above: Members of the Delta Health Center-sponsored farm coop at work, ca. 1986 (Courtesy Daniel Bernstein)
Around the world, communities, in collaboration with scientists, activists, governments, and international organizations, are working together to prevent disease and improve quality of life.
Recognizing the multiple factors that cause illness, these global health leaders take an expansive view of health and medical care. They work on projects that improve access to primary healthcare, reduce discrimination, and address health information needs. Communities and healthcare workers come together to prevent disease, conduct cutting-edge research, end conflict, and recover after natural disasters.
Julia Cummiskey earned her MPH from Columbia University in 2007 and her PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. She has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she was the interim director of the Africana Studies program and is now on the faculty of the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Cummiskey’s research interrogates the history of global health—what it is, how it came to be, its limitations, and its potential. Her first book, Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global was published in 2024 by Ohio University Press in the series “Perspectives on Global Health”. She is currently working on several collaborations to document and analyze the changes in global health research and practice following the decision to close USAID and eliminate most US funding for global health programs as well as a new project on the history of public health communication in East Africa.
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Courtney Pyche, Public Health Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Alyson Young, Health Sciences Librarian, Borland Library Jacksonville
Chloe Hough, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Jennie Crumpton, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Archivist, Health Science Center Libraries Gainesville
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