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DEPARTMENT OF TROPICAL MEDICINE, MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY
JOHN A BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA
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OUR MISSION
To provide a world-class research and teaching program that focuses on microbial diseases of global importance and of special interest to Hawai‘i and the Asia Pacific
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ACADEMICS
We offer graduate programs leading to the MS and PhD degrees and graduate certificate in Tropical Medicine
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RESEARCH TRAINING
We have trained US and international students in infectious disease research since 1976
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GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH
We collaborate with research institutions in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and other international regions.
News
Tropical Medicine graduate students and faculty hosted high school students in the Fukuoka Youth Development Program, December 2025.
UH Manoa Research Day Highlights One Health
February 4, 2026
Tropical Medicine at Welina Manoa
September 1, 2025
Pacific High School Students Present Summer Research at 2025 STEP-UP Symposium
August 14, 2025
JABSOM MD Students Earn the First Dean’s Certificate of Distinction in One Health
June 1, 2025
2025 Hawaii Branch ASM Spring Meeting
May 12, 2025
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Yu-Ching Dai (middle top), recipient of the 2025 Hinshaw Biomedical Research Scholarship, with Mr. Tim Dolan (UH Foundation CEO), Dr. Virginia Hinshaw, Dean Shomaker, Governor Green, and Provost Syrmos at the JABSOM Scholarship Banquet.
Last Updated: 01/26/26
