November 2026 – Dr. Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, FASA will be speaking at the Professor Kenrad Nelson Memorial Lecture at DePauw University.  Dr. Adams is an American anesthesiologist, public health leader, and former Vice Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 20th U.S. Surgeon General from 2017 to 2021. In this national role, he managed the 6,000-person Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and issued key advisories on the opioid crisis, maternal health, and hypertension. Prior to his federal service, Dr. Adams was the Indiana State Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2017, where he led responses to Ebola, Zika, and HIV, while successfully advocating for legalizing syringe service programs.

Currently, Dr. Adams serves as Presidential Fellow, Executive Director of the Center for Community Health Enhancement and Learning (HEAL), and Distinguished Professor of Practice at Purdue University. He also works in the private sector as a Distinguished Medical Advisor for Eko Health, focusing on AI-powered cardiac screening. He continues to be a prominent national voice and commentator on public health equity, maternal health, and community-level healthcare delivery.

July 2026 – Tumaini Global Health sponsored one fellow to attend Rwanda for Community-Based Education Global Scholars Program.  It was a three week program based in Burera District, Northern Rwanda designed for international students who are enrolled in advanced health science degrees in Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health, among other related fields. UGHE’s Department of Community Health and Social Medicine aims to advance community health through participatory approaches, novel hands-on educational opportunities, and direct service to their neighbors and communities across the globe.

November 14, 2026 – Join us at the Woodstock Club at 1301 W 38th St., Indianapolis, Indiana for a intimate gathering with keynote speaker Miriam Hughes, nursing major in the class of 2026.

May 2025 – 2 Tumaini Global Health Fellows were part of a Peru Immersion Educational trip.  Here are some highlights from one student’s reflections. The staff was very kind and showed us around the facility and explained their tertiary care model, focused on complex pediatric cases. I had a conversation that day that I know will stick with me for a lifetime. A nurse who worked for the Ronald McDonald house on the 8th floor of the hospital showed the group around the family rooms and explained her role. I asked her what the hardest and most rewarding part of her job was. She told me her answer was the same for both. Her daughter lost her battle to cancer in 2017. The most rewarding part of her job, she says, is being able to comfort families going through the unimaginable- losing a child. She shared how rewarding and difficult it is for her in those moments, as she knows how these families are feeling and can give them what she did not have when she was newly grieving the loss of her daughter. It struck me just how strong this woman is, how she comes to work every day and is reminded of the worst moments of her life, and yet she remains to help other grieving families. Before this interaction I kept thinking about myself. My internal monologue up until this point were things like “I am over-tired” “I miss my cat” “I am a little hungry” until I realized how single minded I was being. I had a mindset change in an instant. A poster on the wall with a quote in Spanish said “Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living”. I am so grateful to have had these conversations with these amazing people living life in the service of others.
Huanuco showed an entirely different side of Peru. It felt worlds away but the people and their attitudes remained the same. People were welcoming, kind, and joyful. We visited a smaller town called Andabamba. Residents here lived at the top of a hill and had no running water or trash services. We spent the day with a children’s group playing games and doing crafts in their community center. The kids introduced themselves by their favorite colors and soccer players. Throughout my time I could not help but think about how difficult it would be to have no running water, to have to wait for the water truck to come up the hill once a week. The kids and families here focused more on what they had than what they did not, which I feel is a lesson anyone can learn from. When you start a degree in public health, you learn how people live extremely different lives from you, but it is hard to grasp until you share meals with them or use their restrooms and play in their parks. The world is so wide, I am so thankful to the people of Peru for giving me a glimpse into their corner of the world and to the Tumaini foundation and GHI Peru for giving me the opportunity to see it.

April 2025 – The Global Health Update offers an opportunity to hear from leaders and practitioners in Public and Global Health on pressing issues in the health arena from a One Health approach, to tuberculosis, mental health, and the politics of Global Health. The speakers are at the forefront of their areas of expertise. Whether you are deeply engaged professionally or have a personal passion for public and global health, you will not want to miss this line up. Come to learn, explore and engage with others to make this planet a better place for us all. Hosted at DePauw University, Author John Green, Dr. Chris Hall, Dr. Bernice Pescosolido, and Dr. Joia Mukherjee.

March 2024 – Tumaini sponsored another cohort of students from consortium schools Butler, DePauw, Rose-Hulman, and Wabash to attend the annual CUGH global health meeting in Los Angeles.

March 2024 – We were proud to host Babson College Professor Wiljeana Glover to speak on Entrepreneurship and Global Health at Butler and DePauw universities as well as at a reception in her honor in Indianapolis.

December 2023 – At Tumaini’s 2023 Annual Board of Directors meeting, the board voted to extend invitations to five new colleges for admission to Tumaini’s Consortium of schools, Allegheny, Berry, Carleton, Macalester, and St. Olaf.

November 2023 – Colorado State professor, Dr. Brian Foy, gave a talk at Depauw University, called My Wild Adventures in Science and Global Health: From A(nopheles) to Z(ika).

August 2023 – Christopher Stobart, a past Tumaini Sponsored Speaker, is now the program director of Butler University’s new Public Health major! This major is tailored to equip students with the skills and knowledge to analyze health dynamics and the societal determinants of diseases at individual, community, and global levels. Through this major, students will broaden their understanding of the intricate interplay of factors influencing health, fostering critical thinking in the domains of global and public health.

April 2023 – One student from each of Tumaini’s Consortium Schools was sponsored to attend the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. focused on Global Health at a Crossroads: Equity, Climate Change and Microbial Threats.

April 2023 – Dr. Thomas Burke of MGH and Harvard Medical School spoke on the topic of Health Care Device Innovations for Low Resource Settings at Consortium Schools, Depauw, Rose Hulman, and Wabash. He also spoke at a reception following his talks in Indianapolis. Dr. Burke is a Board Member of the Tumaini Foundation.

May 2022 – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology joins our global health education consortium of schools