From environmental disasters, heated conflicts between countries and disease outbreaks, one word keeps popping up across headlines, research articles, and policy discussions: resilience – a concept deemed critical to addressing the complex challenges faced by humanity. 

Various resilience frameworks have highlighted the necessity of resilience across system, sectors, and levels (SSLs), where systems and sectors represent larger institutions, such as the health system, and levels represent smaller groups, such as communities or individuals.

An international research team with Global WACh and partners in the U.S., Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana received a five-year long $36 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health to better understand how HIV or antiretroviral (ART) exposure in utero influences child health outcomes, including neurodevelopment.

Congratulations to Dr. Keshet Ronen, Assistant Professor in Global Health, for receiving funding for “Empowering Women through Digital Connectivity: Advancing Community Health in Kenya” that leverages the ongoing CHV-NEO (Community-based digital communication to support neonatal health) trial activities.

Congratulations to Dr. Anjuli Wagner, Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Global WACh Co-Director, for being nominated for the UW School of Medicine’s Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement (CMFA) Minority Faculty Mentoring Award.

What do you do when you’re outraged by a forgotten crisis? After reading about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the Central African Republic- a country with one of the highest mortality rates in the world yet little global attention- Department of Global Health alumnae Alina Metje (‘23) and Amaya Gatling (‘25) wrote an article for the Department’s Global Health Justice website calling for renewed visibility and accountability by the international community.

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.

RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake. Rhea Coler, an affiliate professor of global health at the UW, is quoted.

Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, associate teaching professor emeritus of global health and of health services at the UW, talks about the state of health care in the United States in this KCSB-FM snippet.