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DGH Alumni Chats: "My MPH gave me more than just academic knowledge; it gave me a framework for compassionate, systems-level change."
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.
Meet the 2025 DGH Husky 100 Winners
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.
2025 Annual MPH Practicum Symposium
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.
Remembering DGH Founding Chair King Holmes
King K. Holmes, MD, PhD, the founding Chair of the Department of Global Health (DGH) and a long-standing leader in the Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases in the UW Department of Medicine, died on Sunday, March 9, 2025. He passed peacefully with the loving support of his family and close friends.
In memory: world STD research pioneer Dr. King Holmes
Dr. Holmes, 87, was the father of the previously neglected field of sexually transmitted diseases and an early leader in AIDS care and research.
In the Media
King Holmes, taboo breaker in study of STDs, dies at 87
“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.”
King K. Holmes, 87, Dies; Researcher Destigmatized Study of S.T.I.s
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.
Dr. King Holmes, UW global health chair and pioneer in STI study, dies
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.
‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe
Healthcare workers at the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health in Zimbabwe were dismissed from their jobs shortly after executive orders pausing foreign aid.
Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms
Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. University of Washington public health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi weighs in.