The Wayne State University Global Health Research Center was created to help overcome social, intellectual, and ethical barriers. We place a strong emphasis on building local global health research capacity, promoting local innovation, and prioritizing research training for community professionals. Our vision is to foster quality research by creating communities across the globe to train leaders, establish partnerships and collaborate towards global health solutions – solutions that transcend education, funding streams, healthcare, languages, and borders. The future of this collaborative is to provide quality career long mentorship and connectivity within an extensive network for professionals around the world. Through this framework, our goal is to ensure a generation of successful and impactful novel global health research on a worldwide platform for even the most vulnerable populations.