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GLOBAL HEALTHIES: OPPORTUNITIES FAIR AND POSTER COMPETITION

Global Healthies: Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition occurs annual during winter quarter. This annual event brings together faculty and students who have mutual interests to find ways for them to work together. This event features Department of Global Health faculty and members of the Department of Global Health’s Centers, Programs, and Initiatives, who will discuss research/fieldwork opportunities that they offer. There will also be a poster competition showcasing the work of our Department of Global Health students.

GLOBAL HEALTH CAREER WEEK

Global Health Career Week occurs annual during spring quarter. Events include the Global Health Career Resource and Information Fair, Alumni Conversations, and the Global Health Trivia Night. Career week events are open to faculty, staff, students and professionals campus-wide.

STEPHEN STEWART GLOYD ENDOWED LECTURE

The Gloyd Lecture was originally established in 1982 by Professor Lynn Staheli of Children’s Medical Center to honor his mentor, Dr. Park Gloyd. In 2001, Park Gloyd endowed the lectureship as the Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lectureship to honor his son, Dr. Steve Gloyd, who was a pioneer in global health at the UW. Steve is Professor of Global Health and Health Services, and adjunct Professor in Epidemiology, Family Medicine, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Evans School of Public Affairs. Steve created, in 1987, the International Health Program in the School of Public Health, and has been a longstanding global champion of social justice and equity. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the 38th UW Faculty Lecturer, the UW-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and the 2010 Barsky Award for courageous and effective advocacy for human rights – selected by the American Public Health Association Physician’s Forum.

Past Events

Faculty Research Seminar

The Faculty Research Seminar is on hiatus and will come back in the near future.

2015

June 1, 2015
"Scaling Up Adaptation to the Health Risks of Climate Change"
Presenter: Kristie Ebi, PhD, MPH, Professor

May 6, 2015
"Essential Surgery: Volume 1 of Disease Control Priorities"
Presenter: Dean Jamison, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Lecture webcast recording (audio only).

April 6, 2015
“Understanding and Tracking Development Assistance for Health: 1990-2014”
Presenter: Joseph Dieleman, PhD, Assistant Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

March 2, 2015
“Child and Adolescent Global Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities: Connecting Research, Capacity Building, Advocacy and Program Implementation”
Presenter: Cecilia Breinbauer, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

February 2, 2015
“Integrated Training and Quality Improvement: Precursors and Results of a Cluster Randomized Trial in Uganda”
Presenter: Marcia Weaver, PhD, Research Associate Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

January 5, 2015
"PUSH! CATCH! DASH! Novel Approaches for Improving Pediatric HIV Testing in Kenya"
Presenter: Jennifer Slyker, PhD, Assistant Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

2014

November, 3 2014
“Cost-Effectiveness of Early Monitored Management of Severe Sepsis in Uganda”
Presenter: Joseph Babigumira, PhD, MS, MBChB, Assistant Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

October 6, 2014
“Integrating Health Economic Analyses into STI/HIV Research”
Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, DPhil, Assistant Professor
Lecture webcast recording.

May 19, 2014
“Mental Health in Global Health: Why Bother?”
Presenter: Deepa Rao, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Global Health, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Lecture webcast recording.

April 7, 2014
“Antiretrovirals for HIV Prevention: Evidence and Implementation”
Presenter: Jared Baeten, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington.
Lecture webcast recording.

March 3, 2014
“Measuring the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease”
Presenter: Gregory Roth, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology
Lecture webcast recording.

February 3, 2014
“Making New Devices for Parasitic Disease Control: GPS Data Loggers to Understand Exposures for Schistosomiasis"
Presenter: Edmund Seto, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Environment and Occupational Health Sciences
Lecture webcast recording.

January 6, 2014
“Strengthening the Prevention and Treatment of Injuries Globally"
Presenter: Charles Mock, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording and PowerPoint slides.

2013

December 2, 2013
“Challenges and Successes of Measuring Impact: PRONTO Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Simulation and Team Training”
Presenter: Dilys Walker, MD, Associate Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording and PowerPoint slides.

November 4, 2013
“Home-based Education and HIV Testing of Male Partners to Improve Maternal and Infant Outcomes”
Presenter: Carey Farquhar MD, MPH, Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording and PowerPoint slides.

October 7, 2013
"Research Projects from the Strategic Analysis, Research & Training Program (START)"
Presenters: Judd Walson, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Global Health
Lisa Manhart, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Health
Jillian Pintye, RN, Master's Student in Epidemiology, Global Health
Stephanie Kovacs, MPH, PhD Student in Epidemiology
Arianna Means, MPH, PhD Student in Implementation Science
Lecture webcast recording and PowerPoint slides.

September 9, 2013
"Improving Outcomes for Children with HIV"
Presenter: Grace John-Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording and PowerPoint slides.

June 3, 2013
“Assessing the Use and Safety of Medicines in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries: Advances in Methods and Future Directions”
Presenter: Andy Stergachis, PhD, RPh, Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording.

May 6, 2013
“NCDs in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: The Case of Tobacco Taxes”
Speakers: Rachel Nugent, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording.

April 1, 2013
“Globology: If a Neurologist Can Do It, Anyone Can!"
Presenter: Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH, Professor, Global Health
Lecture webcast recording.

Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture

	2021 Gloyd Speaker Jean Jacques Muyembe Tamfum General Director of the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Co-discoverer of Ebola "Challenges with Partnerships and Scientific Recognition in International Settings: The Case of Ebola" video

	2019 Gloyd Speaker Stephen Lewis AIDS-Free World, Co-Director "The World is Worth Saving: Global AIDS, Austerity, and Activism" video
	2018 Gloyd Speaker Paulo Ivo Garrido, MD Former Minister of Health, Mozambique Former President, World Health Assembly "Health Care in the Third World 40 years after the Declaration of Alma Ata - a view from the South"
	2017 Gloyd Speaker Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Washington 7th District U.S. Representative "Global Austerity Policies, Inequality and Health: What Can We Do?" Video
	2016 Gloyd Speaker Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Stanford University “Optimizing the Effects of Social Safety Nets on Public Health” Video
	2015 Gloyd Speaker Mary Travis Bassett, MD, MPH Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene School of Public Health Distinguished Alumna 2015 “Public Health as Social Justice: Lessons from Harlem to Harare” Video
	2012 Gloyd Speaker Anne Emanuelle-Birn, MA, ScD "From Rockefeller to Gates: Philanthro-Capitalism,Cooptation, and the Politics of Global Health Agenda-Setting" Video
	2010 Gloyd Speaker Alfred McCoy, PhD Author & Harrington Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror"
	2009 Gloyd Speaker Richard Horton, FRCP, FMedSci Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet "Two Concepts for Health: How to Radicalize the Global Response to Planetary Threats"
	2008 Gloyd Speaker David Cay Johnston The New York Times "Inequality, the Vast Majority, and Health." Podcast
	2007 Gloyd Speaker Dr. Nina Wallerstein University of New Mexico "Power and Sustainability in Health Promotion: Global Perspectives." Podcast
	2006 Gloyd Speaker Dr. William Foege "Global Health: Looking for Shortcuts." Podcast

Global Healthies

January 21, 2020: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Natasha Bourgeois, Pathobiology PhD student, "Discovering Host Kinase Signaling that Mediates Dengue Infection"
Education and Training: Paige Stringer, MPH Student:, “A Communications Plan for the World Health Organization 2020 Launch of ‘World Report on Hearing"
Implementation and Action: Melody Wang, PhD Student, "Integrating HIV and TB Testing Services in Malawi and Zimbabwe: Implementation and Impact of Multi-Disease Point-of-Care Testing"
Public Health and Direct Care: Erin Frame, PhD Student, “Travel Time to Health Facilities in Areas of Outbreak Potential: Maps for Guiding Local Preparedness and Response”
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Polly Woodbury, MPH Student: “Bricked In: Occupational Health and Safety Concerns of Cambodian Brick Kiln Workers"

January 23, 2019: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Jiho Kim, Pathobiology PhDc, "Desmoglein-2 as an Ovarian Cancer Biomarker and Development of a DSG2-Binding Junction-Opener Protein"
Education and Training: Roshan Khatri, MPH Student:, “El Viento Salvaje’ (The Savage Wind)"
Implementation and Action: Adrien Allorant, PhD Student, "Under – 5 Mortality in Africa: Subnational MDG Progress and SDG Potential"
Public Health and Direct Care: Danae Black, PhDc, “Intensified Case Finding and Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Among HIV-Infected Adolescents in Kenya”
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Seth Kramer, MPH Student: “‘One hand alone does not clap’: Building a health justice movement in West Bank refugee camps"

January 9, 2018: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Jiho Kim, Pathobiology PhDc, "Development and Optimization of a Conjugable Joint-opener Adenoviral Protein as a Co-Therapeutic Against Solid Tumors"
Education and Training: Courtney DeCan, MDc "Tackling Malnutrition and Anemia in the Sacred Valley of Peru"
Implementation and Action: Roy Burstein, PhDc, "Under – 5 Mortality in Africa: Subnational MDG Progress and SDG Potential"
Public Health and Direct Care:Elizabeth Karman, MPHc, "Facility Assessment and Baseline Data Collection for the “Faith Leaders Advocating for Maternal Empowerment (FLAME)” Study" and Grégoire Lurton, PhDc, "Making a Livelihood as a Health Worker in a Fragile Setting: Evidence from DRC"
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Erica Orange, MPHc, “Assessing Universal Test and Treat Implementation in South Africa”

May 15, 2017: Global Healthies Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Lauren Gomez, "Improved Neurodevelopment Following Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Children"
Education and Training: Alejandra Cabral "Using Community-Engagement to Identify Health Priorities in Latino Neighborhoods"
Implementation and Action: Jillian Neary, "Improvements to Patient Tracking Tool for Provider Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling (PITC) in Pediatric Wards at Kenyatta National Hospital"
Public Health and Direct Care: Lola Arakaki and Luwam Kidane "Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases: Women and Girls in Focus"
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Shadae Paul "Culture, Exclusion and Healthcare in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa" and Hana Mohamed "Perceptions of Mental Health in the Somali Community in King County, WA: a Community-Based Participatory Research Study"

May 11, 2015: Global Healthies Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Chung Dang, "A novel approach to prevent herpes simplex virus reactivation by utilizing engineered nucleases to specifically disrupt viral genomes in neurons"
Education and Training: Biraj Karmacharya, "Approaches in Global Health Collaboration between institutions in developed and developing countries: Experience from Kathmandu University, Nepal"
Implementation and Action: Marita Mann, "Sentinel Site Active Surveillance for First-Line Antiretroviral Medicines in Namibia"
Public Health and Direct Care: Nicole Ide, "Death Certification at Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal: Medical Records, Death Certificates, and Verbal Autopsy"
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Michelle Lam, "Evaluating the Prevalence and Risk Factors for Major Depressive Symptoms in Nepal"

March 6, 2014: Global Healthies Poster Competition

Award Winners:

Discovery and Development: Aditya S Khanna, Post-doc fellow, 2nd year, Global Health "Lifelong antiretroviral therapy for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV has potential to decrease adult HIV incidence due to sexual transmission"
Education and Training: Kristen Savage, MPH student, Health Services, 2nd year, SCOPE Fellow "Soul Fathers as Health Educators: A Pilot Project to Improve ANC and PMTCT Uptake in Gondar, Ethiopia"
Implementation and Action: Arianna Rubin Means, PhD student, Global Health, Implementation Sciences, 1st year, START program "Developing an operational research consortium within the neglected tropical diseases community"
Public Health and Direct Care: Cynthia Simekha, Undergraduate student, Public Health, Senior, Global Health minor, Geography minor, African studies minor, McNair Scholar "Barriers in Medicaid Enrollment among Somali Immigrants"
Lab Sciences: Russell Barlow, PhD student, Global Health, Pathobiology, 2nd year "Vaccinated Breakthrough Pertussis Infections Among Children and Adolescents Result in Decreased Illness Severity and Duration, Oregon 2010-2012"
Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity: Mariel Boyarsky, 2^nd year MPH student "Women's Health and Safety in Rwenzururu Kingdom, Uganda"

Western Regional Global Health Conference

April 2019: Western Washington University

Theme: "Criminalization of the Body"
Keynote: Festus Ibanda Kisa, Program Coordinator, Q-Initiative Eldoret, Kenya

April 2018: University of Oregon

Theme: "Change-Makers: The Essential Role of Women in Global Health"
Keynote: Dr. Araceli Alonso, PhD, RN, MA, MS, Director of University of Wisconsin-Madison UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and Culture of Peace

***2017: Due to the fact that the Department of Global Health was celebrating their 10th anniversary, the conference was not held in 2017.

April 2016: University of Washington

Theme: "Glocalization: Redifining Boundries and Borders in Approaches to Health"
Keynote: Dr. Peter Piot, CMG, MD, PhD, DTM, FRCP, FMedSci, Director & Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

April 2015: University of Oregon

Theme: "Health at Every Age: Determinants and Outcomes of Physical and Mental Health Throughout the Lifespan"
Keynotes: Dr. Ramadorai Ravishanker, Surgeon and Chairman for the National Ethical Committee of the Ayush Dept. of the Govt. of India
Nancy Hughes, Founder of StoveTeam International and CNN Hero
Dr. Larry Sherman, Senior Scientist at Oregon Health and Science University

April 2014: University of Washington

Theme: "Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements in Global Health"
Keynote: Stella Nyanzi, PhD, Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University

April 2013: Oregon Health & Science University

Theme: "Global Health in Changing Environments"
Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health

May 2012: University of Washington

Theme: "At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health."
Keynote: Kavita Ramdas, Executive Director of Development at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).

***2011: Due to the fact that the UW was hosting the CUGH meeting in Seattle, the conference was not held in 2011.

April 2010: Hosted by the University of Washington and Physicians for Social Responsiblity

Theme: "War and Global Health"
Keynote: Journalist and author Christopher Hedges, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times

April 2009: Joint conference with the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), University of Washington

Theme: “Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action”
Keynote: Harriet Fulbright, Director of the Fulbright Center

February 2008: Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Theme: “Meeting the Challenge: the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond”
Keynotes: Dr. Samantha Nutt, FRCPC, Executive Director & Founder, War Child Canada and Dr. Julio Montaner, FRCPC, FCCP, Clinical Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Professor of Medicine, UBC

February 2007: University of Washington

Theme: "Global Health Through Different Lenses: Reflections, Perspectives, and Visions for the Future"
Keynote: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-founder of Partners in Health
Video: “The Golden Age of Global Health: An Ethnology in Progress”

February 2006: Oregon Health Sciences University

Theme: "Health, Human Rights and Economics: The Value of Human Life"
Keynote: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD., an economist and Director of the United Nations Millennium Project (live video address)

February 2005: University of Washington

Theme: "Politics, Social Justice, and Global Health"
Keynote: Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Regional Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

February 2004: University of Arizona, Tucson

Theme: "Bringing International Health Home"
Keynote: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

November 2002: University of Washington

Theme: “1st Western Regional International Health Conference”
Keynote: Dr. William Foege, Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Former Executive Director of the Carter Center

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GLOBAL HEALTHIES: OPPORTUNITIES FAIR AND POSTER COMPETITION

GLOBAL HEALTH CAREER WEEK

STEPHEN STEWART GLOYD ENDOWED LECTURE

Past Events

Faculty Research Seminar

2015

2014

2013

Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture

Global Healthies

January 21, 2020: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

January 23, 2019: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

January 9, 2018: Global Healthies Opportunities Fair and Poster Competition

May 15, 2017: Global Healthies Poster Competition

May 11, 2015: Global Healthies Poster Competition

March 6, 2014: Global Healthies Poster Competition

Western Regional Global Health Conference

April 2019: Western Washington University

April 2018: University of Oregon

***2017: Due to the fact that the Department of Global Health was celebrating their 10th anniversary, the conference was not held in 2017.

April 2016: University of Washington

April 2015: University of Oregon

April 2014: University of Washington

April 2013: Oregon Health & Science University

May 2012: University of Washington

***2011: Due to the fact that the UW was hosting the CUGH meeting in Seattle, the conference was not held in 2011.

April 2010: Hosted by the University of Washington and Physicians for Social Responsiblity

April 2009: Joint conference with the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), University of Washington

February 2008: Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

February 2007: University of Washington

February 2006: Oregon Health Sciences University

February 2005: University of Washington

February 2004: University of Arizona, Tucson

November 2002: University of Washington

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