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GCHS News

2025

James Lawler, Vicky Nakibuuka, and Pipeline Worldwide members participate in a panel discussion.
Josh Santarpia, PhD
Ukrainian health care fellows visit UNMC and tour the GCHS
Among those attending the expo were, from left, James Lawler, MD, associate director for international programs and innovation with the Global Center for Health Security, Jane Meza, PhD, UNMC's interim vice chancellor for academic affairs, and UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD.
Ukrainian health care fellows visit UNMC.
Dele Davies speaking at the Board of Regents meeting.
Retired Air Force surgeon general Roudebush gets tour of UNMC

UNMC hosts leadership from ASPR

September 16, 2025

ASPR leadership visits UNMC for a tour.
Abbey Lowe, PhD
A Uganda delegation visited UNMC for a tour.
Tranquil Passport Exercise
Joint Staff Surgeon Brigadier General John Andrus, MD, who serves as senior medical advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with his son, Jacob Andrus, DO, a UNMC resident in family medicine and a captain in the U.S. Air Force
A new conex was delivery to UNMC in July 2025.
Mike Wadman, MD, Thanh Nguyen, MD
A Kenyan health delegation visited the Davis Global Center, and part of the visit included a tour by UNMC's James Lawler, MD
Mayor Ewing visits UNMC.
Davis Global Center
Staff from the Global Center for Health Security greeted the Portable Biocontainment Unit upon its delivery to the UNMC Omaha campus.
UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Norio Ohmagari, MD, PhD, of the Japan Institute for Health Security.
The Omaha Simulation Container Lab Expo celebrated the transformation of a shipping container into a remote simulation training lab.
U.S. Reps. Bacon and Miller-Meeks visit UNMC Written by Jeff Robb, UNMC strategic communications Photography by Kiley Cruse Published Apr 28, 2025 U.S. Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD, of Iowa listen to Benjamin Stobbe, assistant vice chancellor for advanced and statewide simulation, iEXCEL, on a tour of the Davis Global Center.
Wael El Rayes, MD, PhD
The East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit 2025 was co-convened by the UNMC Global Center for Health Security, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention Eastern Africa Regional Coordinating Centre and other partners.
Air Force Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD, was promoted to the rank of colonel.
John Lowe, PhD
Dairy Cows
Steven Yeh, MD and Sean Langenfeld, MD
Facilities at the Davis Global Center aided in the exercise focusing on infectious disease threat and response.
Athena Ramos, PhD, and Joshua Santarpia, PhD