Consortium of Universities for Global Health

What it reported doing in 2024

Cugh's largest programs are our membership and our annual conference. Cugh also produces webinar series and has committee involvement in education, advocacy, and research. A capacity building program has been established through www.cughcapacitybuilding.org, in addition to the leadership interview series.annual conference and webinarsthe cugh annual conference has become the world's leading academic global health conference. Since its inaugural meeting in 2008, the number of registered attendees has grown from 327 to more than 1,800. The meeting brings together committed leaders, professionals, educators, and students from diverse fields of study including medicine, law, policy, natural sciences, nursing, public health, and environmental studies to explore, collaborate, and share how we can address the global health challenges before us.conference theme - global health without borders: acting for impactfrom march 8th march 10th, 2024, the consortium of universities for global health (cugh) held its annual in-person global health conference. The host institutions were the national cancer institute, the university of California san francisco institute for global health sciences, the university of Washington department of global health, and the university of southern California institute on inequalities in global health. Its theme was 'global health without borders: acting for impact.' the conference agenda was filled with over 200 speakers and more than 50 panels across various topics, disciplines, and countries that will address many of the contemporary health challenges that we face today. We had over 20 satellite sessions at cugh 2024 that spanned a wide range of topics. The conference convened individuals across sectors, organizations, and disciplines to share knowledge, build skills, or develop action plans to address specific global health challenges we face today.cugh's annual webinar series and leadership interviewscugh has for years run webinars. Experts from around the world and across disciplines share how we can address an array of contemporary challenges. These are shared worldwide with cugh's 38,000+ person network. All webinars are free to attend, use, and share.the link to cugh's webinars is: https://www.cugh.org/resources/webinars/cugh also runs a global health leader interview series where leaders from different global organizations are interviewed and share their views on contemporary global challenges.the link to the 2024 interview series is: https://www.cugh.org/our-work/events/cugh-global-leader-interview-series/capacity building: with resources from nih, cugh revamped its online capacity strengthening site that will enable institutions in low- and middle-income nations to share their training needs and attract the trainers and educational products they need. This includes a mentorship program and functions that help to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the site (www.cughcapacitybuilding.org). The purpose of the site is to help address massive gaps in skilled workers across health and sustainable development areas that lic nations are faced with.hologic grant: 3-4 awards of up to $10,000. The awards were for 24 months beginning in 2023. The objectives of this grant program are to empower the global credibility, utilization, and relevance of the hologic global women's health index data set to improve women's health policies and practices. The funding targeted early career medical, policy, and public health professionals. Projects were considered related to the following topics: 1) research on effective healthcare models, programs, and policies; 2) research on innovations that improve women's health; 3) actions in a country or region for education/awareness on important women's healthcare topics; 4) the importance of women's health to human health, societies, and economic development; or 5) research in the setting of gender disparities and determinants of the program of action of the icpd1994. Grants

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
• Program expense ratio: 41.6%; rating input score 42
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -40.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings