The Global Health Resource Center is the main hub for networking and events for the Department of Global Health. We offer a variety of recurring events throughout the year for students, faculty, staff and the general community, and all are welcome unless otherwise noted.
See below for more information about our events.
Have an event that you would like to promote to Department of Global Health? Follow the link below to share the details for your event.
Once your request is submitted, it may take up to 48 hours for the event to appear on the calendar.
The department occasionally cosponsors global health related events with outside organizations. Please contact the GHRC at ghrc@uw.edu to inquire about the process for cosponsorship.
Questions about planning a lecture or seminar on campus? Need assistance organizing a global health event? Send your questions to ghrc@uw.edu or give us a call at 206.685.7362.
The monthly Global Health Faculty Research Seminar is held to foster learning, communication, and collaboration between Department of Global Health members from different centers, programs, and initiatives. The seminars are webcast and accessible in real-time via Adobe Connect. Participants should select “Enter as Guest” and type their name. Interaction from remote participants will be limited to typed-chat and questions will be answered at the end of the presentation as time allows. The Faculty Research Seminar is on hiatus and will come back in the near future.
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.
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.
The Western Regional Global Health Conference started in November 2002 by a group of medical students at the University of Washington, School of Medicine's International Health Group, a student organization committed to bringing awareness to global health issues and supporting their medical student colleagues.
This event, which began as a student-inspired, student-run conference, now draws close to 1,000 students, faculty, staff, residents, and community members from the western half of the United States and Canada. Past keynote speakers have included Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Jeffrey Sachs, and Mirta Roses Periago.
The conference usually alternates between the University of Washington, the home institution for the event, and other western U.S. and Canadian institutions. The conference organizing committees are made up of an interdisciplinary cross-section of undergraduates, graduate, and professional students who are committed to a pursuit of a career in global health, including nursing, medicine, social work, law, business, public health, dentistry, and pharmacy.
The World Health Cinema (WHC) Series was established in 2006 as a monthly film series aimed at showcasing global health topics through documentary and feature films.
The Faculty Research Seminar is on hiatus and will come back in the near future.
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.
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.
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.
 | 2019 Gloyd Speaker Stephen Lewis AIDS-Free World, Co-Director "The World is Worth Saving: Global AIDS, Austerity, and Activism" |
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Theme: "Criminalization of the Body"
Keynote: Festus Ibanda Kisa, Program Coordinator, Q-Initiative Eldoret, Kenya
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
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
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
Theme: "Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements in Global Health"
Keynote: Stella Nyanzi, PhD, Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University
Theme: "Global Health in Changing Environments"
Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health
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).
Theme: "War and Global Health"
Keynote: Journalist and author Christopher Hedges, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times
Theme: “Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action”
Keynote: Harriet Fulbright, Director of the Fulbright Center
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
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”
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)
Theme: "Politics, Social Justice, and Global Health"
Keynote: Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Regional Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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
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