Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, says the federal government needs to dramatically increase money to fund research on how climate change impacts health.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a new policy aimed at dramatically reducing sexually transmitted infections in the U.S.
Dr. Connie Celum, professor of global health and of medicine at the UW, is quoted.
With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures could reach 63,000 a year, researchers calculate.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Countless years of compounded medical apartheid injustices can greatly set back or negate modern medicine’s medical advancements if swift changes are not enacted to recognize and rectify the numerous inequities.
This fall, the Department of Global Health is proud to welcome 53 new graduate students into our community.
A poor community in India lost power during a heat wave, unlike the luxury mall next door. What happened next exposed extreme heat’s unequal toll. Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is referenced.
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true. Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine at the UW, is quoted.
The American Geophysical Union announced Sept. 13 that five University of Washington faculty members have been elected as new fellows, including Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences.
India’s southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare but potentially serious Nipah virus, with at least two deaths so far. Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
The inhaled vaccine technology being developed at Yale cannot be sprayed from the sky in a “chemtrail,” as a social media post suggests. Inhaled vaccines require measured doses delivered directly into the nose. Experts agreed spraying a vaccine from airplanes is not feasible or ethical. Dr. Christopher Sanford, associate professor of global health and of medicine in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.