The Department of Global Health at the University of Washington is celebrating our 10th anniversary. Together with eight other Washington-based global health organizations, many of whom are also celebrating major anniversaries, and our international partners, we are delighted to host Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation on February 8, 2017 from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 

Join us to welcome world-renowned leaders in global health research, education, policy and practice. Featured speakers who will explore pressing challenges in global health include:

Twenty-nine University of Washington faculty members are among a list of the year’s most highly cited researchers in the natural and social sciences, including Christopher Murray and Mohsen Naghavi of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and Michael Gale, Alan Lopez and Michael Brauer from the Department of Global Health. 

Op-ed by Jennifer Slyker

This World AIDS Day, we applaud gains against the world HIV/AIDS epidemic and optimistically embark upon a new vaccine trial. But we also recognize our work is far from done especially when it comes to young people. Without a significant global transformation in priorities and resources towards adolescents, we leave them at risk of dying from a preventable and treatable disease.

In the decades since the success of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, that small island has gained a global reputation for its pioneering health system. Although Cuba’s GDP is only a fraction of that of the U.S., the island has a lower infant mortality rate and has among the highest life expectancies and doctor-patient ratios in the world. What factors account for the success of medicine and public health in Cuba?