Graduate students admitted to the UW Department of  Global Health are invited to join department faculty, students and staff in March to learn more about the department's graduate programs, life in Seattle, and becoming a part of the UW global health community. Admitted students interact with DGH faculty, current students, and alumni and discuss their experiences in global health research, learning, service and career paths.

Four Visit Days events are open to DGH current students as well as 2021 admitted students:

New collaboration between UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) and EarthLab will accelerate climate research, action and resilience.

More than 10 PhD and MPH students who entered Department of Global Health graduate programs in 2020 were awarded a variety of Research Assistantships and Fellowships. Meet the current UW Department of Global Health batch of RAs and Fellows, learn about their backgrounds and get their first-hand perspectives of life as global health graduate student in 2020-21.

UW Global Health students: DGH faculty and staff want to collaborate with YOU! Gain first-hand experience on global health projects!

Below are current and upcoming projects from DGH researchers and staff who are looking for students to get involved! DGH will hold networking sessions between January 25 and February 5 where students can discuss project opportunities with relevant faculty/staff.

Gita Ramjee Prize Awarded by the International AIDS Society and The Aurum Institute at the HIV Research for Prevention Conference.

At just over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has generated viral variants that differ in their genetic sequence from the strain first detected in December 2019. Evidence is emerging about how these variants differ in their transmission characteristics, associated clinical symptoms, and vaccine efficacy. This document is a brief summary of published evidence about characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants that may impact the public health response, including transmission and response to vaccination.

I am a 34-year-old open-heart surgery survivor who got the vaccine as part of a science experiment. I don’t regret it.

by Samantha Allen  / February 5, 2021

I smiled when the thermometer read 102 degrees.

The recent recognition of new COVID-19 variants, first detected in South Africa (B.1.135, 501Y.V2), Brazil (P1) and the UK (B.1.1.7) – and the variants’ potential to disrupt vaccine effectiveness and protection from prior COVID-19 infection – is an urgent concern that UWARN partners around the globe are collaborating on to understand.

The United States helped bring the world into the Paris climate accord, the groundbreaking global agreement reached in 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow climate change. Under Donald Trump, the U.S. became the only country to withdraw. Now, the U.S. is coming back.

Rising infections and new, highly contagious strains of the coronavirus are pressuring governments to accelerate vaccinations

By Dasl Yoon in Seoul, Rhiannon Hoyle in Sydney and Felicia Schwartz in Tel Aviv, The Wall Street Journal