Please join us in congratulating the DGH Husky 100! Each year the Husky 100 program recognizes undergraduate, graduate and professional students from all three campuses who are making the most of their time at the UW. This year, DGH is proud to announce Doctor of Global Health Leadership and Practice student Mohammad Gazi as a member of the 2026 Husky 100 cohort!

The MPH Practicum Symposium is an essential part of the MPH candidate experience as it enables our students to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to the real world of public health. This year, 24 DGH MPH students will be showcasing their innovative, community-driven projects at the 28th Annual MPH Practicum Symposium on Wednesday, April 8.

It has been over a hundred years since the first tuberculosis vaccine was invented, and yet tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease.  That is now poised to change. There are several new TB vaccines now in phase III clinical trials and the world is closer than ever to a breakthrough that could save 8.5 million lives by 2050. Yet questions remain regarding how well the new vaccines will be accepted b

Join the Department of Global Health's upcoming candidate faculty job talks. 

From Tuesday, April 14 to Thursday, April 16, 2026, the department is interviewing four candidates to join our full-time faculty as a Research Assistant Professor. Each candidate will be presenting on a global health topic of their choice. Everyone is invited to attend the virtual job talks to learn about the candidates. 

Join the Department of Global Health's upcoming candidate faculty job talks. 

From Wednesday, April 15 to Thursday, April 16, 2026, the department is interviewing two candidates to join our full-time faculty as a Research Associate Professor. Each candidate will be presenting on a global health topic of their choice. Everyone is invited to attend the virtual job talks to learn about the candidates. 

In a recent interview with the NIH Fogarty International Center, DGH faculty member Dr. Joe Zunt talked about his thirty years of global health research and field work and had some words of wisdom for students who want to become global health researchers. 

A recent GWACh study on Shigella-related illnesses of children in low-and middle-income countries was published in The Lancet and the UW Medicine Newsroom.  Patricia Pavlinac, director of GWACh and Assistant Professor of global health, is quoted.

Dr. Herbie Duber, a global health professor who became health officer for the Kitsap Public Health District on an interim basis in August, will continue to serve in the role going forward. 

The Kitsap Public Health District Board appointed Dr. Herbie Duber, a professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Global Health, and Health Metric Sciences, as the agency’s permanent health officer at its Feb. 3 meeting.

In an executive order, Trump put an end to more than three decades of U.S. support for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world's long-standing climate treaty. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.