Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and University Hospitals (UH) have announced $2 million gift from the Roe Green Foundation to establish a multidisciplinary research building in Uganda.

Jointly awarded to CWRU and UH, the gift will advance global health initiatives from each institution as well as establish the Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Roe Green Medical Education and Research Building, a research hub and gathering place in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Both institutions have worked closely to advance medical research and education across a range of fields in Uganda over the past 38 years, but facilities have remained scattered across the campuses of local partners. Previous collaborations include the Uganda-Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration (UCRC), founded in 1986 to help fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the UH Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine and Global Health, named in 2014, which aims to help people travel safely by providing information, treatment, and preventive care. The center will provide a permanent home for the collaboration.

“For decades, the UCRC and UH have worked to improve global health through research and medical education,” said Robert Salata, chair of the Department of Medicine at UH Cleveland Medical Center as well as physician-in-chief and the STERIS Chair of Excellence in Medicine, and program director of the UH Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine and Global Health. “We’ve trained more than 200 physicians at our Uganda location, and this new gift from the Roe Green Foundation will not only provide a permanent home for that work, but further expand our impact.”