Springtime at the UW is more than just cherry blossoms and baseball games. In the School of Public Health, it is also Career Month. While students have access to career development services throughout the year, the events and workshops available in April feature public health experts, including SPH alumni, allowing students to connect with them in group and individual settings. For the DGH Alumni Chats event, DGH alumni took the time to participate in 1:1 virtual chats with DGH MPH students to answer questions, reflect on how DGH prepared them for their jobs, and share some advice. 

Each year the Husky 100 program selects UW juniors, seniors, graduate and professional students from across all three campuses who are making the most of their Husky Experience. This year DGH is proud to announce the following students: Priyanka Shrestha, Morgan Aurelio, and Ananditha Raghunath.

“I had visions of working on exotic tropical diseases, such as malaria and hemorrhagic fevers,” said Dr. Holmes, who died March 9 at his home in Seattle at age 87, “but this was the most common problematic infectious disease facing the Navy at the time.”

He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention.

The MPH Practicum Symposium is an essential part of the MPH candidate experience as it enables our students to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to the real world of public health. This year, 26 DGH MPH students showcased their innovative, community-driven projects at the 27th Annual MPH Practicum Symposium. Working with various local and global organizations, our students helped address some of the most pressing public health challenges of our time, and made lasting connections with public health agencies across the globe.

In studying sexually transmitted infections at a time when research on the topic was almost nonexistent in the U.S., Holmes became a world-renowned pioneer in demystifying the field. Holmes was 87 when he died Sunday in Seattle.