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  • Washington Global Health Alliance Mapping Project Debut. The Washington Global Health Alliance hired the firm Berk & Associates to map global health projects among all its members. This was a massive effort and the results will be released 4-6 p.m. Nov. 18 at SBRI for an event sponsored by the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (WBBA) " Domesticating Global Health - Part One of a Four Part Series." This session will discuss What is Global Health?  How does Global Health benefit Washington’s Life Science community and the state’s economy?  What are the opportunities to partner and leverage our innovation economy to further all of our missions?
  • Thomas Francis Fellows. The School of Public Health profiled this year’s recipients of the prestigious Thomas J. Francis Jr. Global Health Fellowship, which promotes global health by providing financial assistance to students from all disciplines doing problem-solving practica in other cultures, usually developing countries.
  • Global Health's Andy Stergachis Honored. The Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA) recently announced its 2009 pharmacy award winners and Andy Stergachis, UW professor of epidemiology and global health and adjunct professor of pharmacy, received the innovative pharmacy practice award. Also, fourth-year UW pharmacy student Tahnee Marginean was named Pharmacy Student of the Year.
  • World AIDS Day Lecture. Dr. Grace John-Stewart, director of the International Core of the UW Center for AIDS Research, will deliver a lecture, Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1: From Discovery to Delivery, at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1, in Hogness Auditorium. The lecture is the School of Medicine's Science in Medicine lecture as well as the School of Public Health's Fall Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
  • UC Davis Launches Global Health Institute.The University of California launched a new Global Health Institute with nearly $4 million in start-up funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The institute will focus the combined expertise of the university's 10 campuses "on solving increasingly complex global health problems and meeting the health-care needs of the world's most vulnerable populations."
  • Richard Horton's Lecture Nov. 2: Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, gave a great lecture Nov. 2 in Hogness Auditorium on "Two Concepts for Health: How to Radicalize the Global Response to Planetary Threats." Horton was the 2009 Stephen Stewart Gloyd lecturer. His talk was videotaped. Seattle Times reporter Sandi Doughton also blogged about the event, "Lancet Editor Calls on UW to Provoke the Powerful.
  • External Advisory Board Meeting: The Department is holding a two-day External Advisory Board meeting in Seattle Dec. 9-10 to discuss key strategic direction for the Department. Our distinguished External Advisory Board members come from a wide variety of disciplines and fields of expertise -- not only health sciences but also law, engineering, climate change, information management, and veterinary medicine.
  • Global Washington's "Blueprint for Action:" Have an idea for development? Share it on Global Washington's new website, which asks the public to help set priorities for development by posting their ideas and solutions. Readers can vote on the ideas, and the author with the most votes gets to host a session on that topic at a conference next month in Seattle. Seattle Times reporter Kristi Heims blogged about the project Nov. 4.

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If you have any news to share, i.e., publications, grant awards, other awards, etc., please let us know by emailing Bobbi Nodell, Communications Specialist, at bnodell@u.washington.edu.

Funding and International Opportunities

  • Center for Strategic and International Studies Global Health Essay Contest. "What is the most important thing the U.S. can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?" Award: $1,000. Deadline: Nov. 20.
  • The Duke Program on Global Policy and Governance in Geneva, Switzerland, is accepting applications for its Summer 2010 cohort. Past program participants include graduate and professional students from all disciplines, including law, medicine, public policy, international affairs, business, environmental studies, and other students interested in issues of global policy and governance.  Joint degree students also welcome to apply! Deadline: Nov. 30.
  • The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows (FICRS-F) Support Center at Vanderbilt is offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions. Deadline: Dec. 3.
  • Lambarene Schweitzer Fellows Program of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. The program offers three-month fellowships in medicine and public health at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon. The medical fellowships are open to senior medical students to serve in pediatrics or adult medicine. Medical fellows work as junior physicians under the supervision of the Schweitzer Hospital medical staff. Fluency in French required. Deadline: Dec. 15.
  • Applications are invited from graduate students for the West Africa Research Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for research in West Africa during the summer of 2010. Funded through the bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department. Each fellowship will provide round trip travel to a West African country and a stipend of up to $3,500. Deadline: Jan. 10.
  • Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS). Incoming and current graduate and professional students from all departments and schools are encouraged to apply. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Summer 2010 awards will provide tuition up to $4,000, plus a living allowance of $2,500. Travel funds up to $1,000 are available with summer awards only. Academic Year 2010-11 fellowships, pending funding, will grant tuition up to $12,000, plus a stipend of $15,000. Eight campus-wide information sessions about the FLAS fellowship will be held in November and December. Deadline: Jan. 15.
  • New: Pre-Med Opportunity in India (Mabelle Arole Fellowship).The Fellow, who receives $8,000 to cover all expenses, spends 10 months at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project at Jamkhed (in Maharashtra), one of the best examples of how mobilized/empowered communities can significantly improve their health/nutrition status. Deadline: Mid-January.
  • Sierra Leone Study Abroad through UW Honors and Africa Studies Program . A 10-week intensive ethnographic theory and method study abroad program based in Magbaiamba N'donhanhu chiefdom in Northern Sierra Leone summer 2010. (20 credits.) Deadline: Feb. 1.
  • The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), in conjunction with New Mexico State University, hosts a two-week field experience designed to expose graduate students to the challenges and triumphs of delivering health care and conducting research in communities with limited resources along the border. Deadline: Feb. 10.
  • The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Deadline: Aug. 1
  • Biomedical Ethics in Developing Countries Project-Scoping Travel Grants. Sponsor: Wellcome Trust. (Applications may be submitted at any time and should be sent to the trust at least two months before the proposed research is due to commence.)
  • Voluntarios Bolivia

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Richard Horton
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, speaking at UW Nov. 2, said he’d like to see universities like the UW provide a forum where data on development and global health can be freely available – and critically evaluated.
This Week
Uplift International, a Seattle-based NGO run with the support of UW Professor Beth Rivin, helped bring supplies and medical professionals to Indonesia’s Sumatra Island after the Sept. 30 earthquake.