Policy makers and practitioners are increasingly seeking to understand the extent of the impacts of climate change on health, the magnitude and pattern of projected risks, and possible effective mitigation and adaptation solutions. This Personal View offers recommendations to increase the policy relevance and usefulness of projections.

Dr. Carey Farquhar, professor of medicine (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and global health, has received a Global Innovation Fund Award from the UW Office of Global Affairs. The UW Global Innovation Fund seeds initiatives and programs, developing cross-college and cross-continent collaborations that enhance the University of Washington’s global reach.

Jason Daniel-Ulloa, associate teaching professor in the Departments of Health Systems and Population Health and Global Health, has been awarded the University of Washington’s Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award. Presented as part of the UW’s 2025 Awards of Excellence, the honor recognizes full-time faculty who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to teaching and designing courses in non-degree programs that serve professional development, personal growth, and career transformation.

The Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) is a team of researchers, teachers, and practitioners that uses their expertise to incorporate climate change resilience into public health. Their research focuses on topics such as heat, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, nutrition, wildfires and air pollution, mental health, injuries, and waterborne diseases.

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. 

Department of Global Health Professor, James Pfeiffer, weighs in on recent cuts to federal aid funding: "The Trump administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and other aid funding for global health are cruel and catastrophic."

The Trump administration has put the nation’s most comprehensive climate study on hold and told hundreds of scientists working on it that their services are no longer needed.

Peter Rabinowitz, the director of The Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington, which investigates disease between animals and humans, weighs in on this growing trend.

Abraham Flaxman is a professor at the University of Washington who studies diseases and how they affect global health. Flaxman is also the sponsor of a resolution that passed the UW’s Faculty Senate last week, calling for the UW to join a “mutual defense compact” of Big Ten universities. “That’s what this is — a NATO for higher education.” It passed 52 to 5.

“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.”