UCSF builds new $20 million hub for global health

With a US$20 million gift from the philanthropist Chuck Feeney, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will build a new hub for global health sciences at its Mission Bay campus. The new gift will allow UCSF, for the first time, to have one physical location for its global health researchers, scientists and students, and will jumpstart the university's vision to become one of the world's leading centers for global health sciences.

With construction expected to begin in March 2013 for completion in August 2014, the new hub will house around 1,500 faculty and staff, and will also include space for UCSF's entire global health program, as well as for clinical faculty working in nearby hospitals.

(Image of UCSF's proposed new global health building courtesy of WRNS Studios).