The Search Committee for the next Chair and Professor, Department of Global Health present the following candidates for Department of Global Health Chair:
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD (University of California San Diego)
Curriculum Vitae
Campus Visit: April 16-18
Seminar: April 17 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in T639
A new report on drug and vaccine safety in global health, co-authored by Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow, Council for Foreign Relations, and Andy Stergachis, is now available. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this report is the product of the Safety Surveillance Working Group, a year-long initiative to develop a practical, scalable strategy for improving drug and vaccine safety in low- and middle-income countries.
With growing talk of an HIV cure, the defeatHIV Community Advisory Board, along with the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research, and BABES Network-YWCA worked together to put on a “Community Q & A on HIV Cures” event April 2 with visiting scientist Robert Siliciano, a Professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world’s leading researchers on HIV.
Affiliate Professor Ken Stuart, PhD, has received the Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology, which recognizes scientific leaders currently making novel and significant discoveries on the biology of parasitic organisms. Dr. Stuart’s research is focused on trypanosomatid pathogens known to cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis for which there are few effective treatments and no current vaccines. Read more.
Dear Global Health Faculty, Staff and Students,
The 11th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference, “Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality, & Social Movements in Global Health", has amassed the biggest list of financial sponsors in the conference’s history, with more than 35 diverse health organizations providing support.
The just-released School of Public Health 2013 Annual Report highlights many Department of Global Health collaborations across campus, such as the Human-Animal Medicine Project (Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH); the HOPE (home-based partner, education) project that tests mobile messaging for pregnant women in a Nairobi slum (Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, and Global WACh or Center for Woman, Adolescent, and Child Health); and the expansion of the START (Strategic Analysis, Research & Training) program (Lisa Manhart
Maria I. Echavarria Mejia’s (MPH in Leadership and Policy Management, ’13) work on social networking sites was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on health and health care in the Internet age.
University of Washington is part of a consortium led by Seattle Biomed to develop a vaccine that would elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. The $9.8m grant from NIH was announced March 10. Other members of the consortium include Seattle Children's Hospital and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Seattle Biomed Scientific Director Leonidas Stamatatos, PhD, an Affiliate Professor of Global Health will serve as program principal investigator, and will lead the initial phase of the project, which includes the optimization of immunogens.
Did you know tuberculosis cases have increased 12 percent in Washington State, that globally 1 in three people are infected with the disease? To find out more about TB, here are two events the Department is promoting:
* Town Hall, March 24, 5:30 - 8 p.m. (Program starts at 6 p.m., free)
Learn from local TB experts about: