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Two Years of War in Ukraine: I-TECH and Healthcare System Resilience Recap
On March 28, 2024, the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), the UW Behavioral Research Center for HIV (BIRCH), and the Department of Global Health (DGH) collaborated for a conversation with two critical members of the I-TECH Ukraine team, Oksana Danylenko, MD, MPMA, and Alyona Ihnatiuk, MPH,
DGH Highlights from CUGH 2024
From March 7 – 10, 2024, UW Department of Global Health attended the 2024 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference in Los Angeles, CA.
The weekend included faculty and graduate students sharing their research in seven posters presentations on research topics ranging from academic journal publishing to healthcare management in Lesotho to early hearing detection and intervention in Kenya.
National Nutrition Month: Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Multisectoral Nutrition Strategies
Malnutrition, which refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in nutrient intake, affects billions of people around the world. There are various forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, micronutrient-related malnutrition, and overweight, obesity, and diet-related non-communicable diseases.
Biraj Karmacharya named 2024 Alumni of Impact Awardee for the UW School of Public Health
Biraj Karmacharya, a public health leader in Nepal, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Alumni of Impact Award. Karmacharya studied at the UW School of Public Health as a Nepal Fulbright scholar and received two SPH degrees: a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and an MPH in Global Health. He is also an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Global Health and was the founding co-director of Nepal Studies Initiative at the Jackson School of International Studies at the UW.
DGH Webinar on the Gaza Public Health Crisis
On Monday, February 26, DGH hosted a webinar to discuss and describe the public health response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
In the Media
Olympic athletes could face a tough opponent: Brutal Paris heat
The Olympics are planned for the same stretch of days as a catastrophic 2003 heat wave. Continued global warming has only increased the odds of another heat wave.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
DNA from 2,000-year-old skeletons hints at the origins of syphilis
In contrast to a common theory, new findings suggest Columbus-led expeditions may not have transported syphilis to Europe from the Americas, though they cannot disprove the claim with certainty.
Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.
A cough away from clarity — UW researchers are developing new app to differentiate respiratory disease
UW Medicine doctors and University of Washington engineers are on a mission to provide answers by developing a smartphone app designed to distinguish COVID-19 coughs, for instance, from other respiratory illnesses. Dr. Thomas Hawn, adjunct professor of global health and of laboratory medicine and pathology, is mentioned.
Ancient DNA offers new evidence in long-standing syphilis theory
The origins of syphilis — a sexually transmitted infection that devastated 15th century Europe and is still prevalent today — have remained murky, difficult to study and the subject of some debate.
Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.
Syphilis microbe’s family has plagued humans for millennia
Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.