October 15, 2014 | Department News

Upcoming Local Events Focus on Ebola Crisis

Most people had never heard of Ebola as recently as a few of months ago—now this deadly virus is leading every newscast. As West Africa fights the largest Ebola outbreak in history, Pacific Northwest researchers and organizations are working to aid its containment and curb its destructive potential. We hope you will join us for one or both of these upcoming events featuring local researchers and public health practitioners who are working on Ebola.

 

 

BIRCH team
September 22, 2014 | Department News

I-TECH Partners for First Randomized Trial of Educational Outreach and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Africa

International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) recently partnered on the first randomized trial of educational outreach and continuous quality improvement (CQI) in Africa. The evidence in a new IDCAP Overview article published in PLOS ONE — “Improving Facility Performance in Infectious Disease Care in Uganda: a Mixed Design Study with Pre/Post and Cluster Randomized TrialComponents” — by Dr. Marcia Weaver et al.

BIRCH team
September 22, 2014 | Department News

I-TECH Research Idenitfies Four Principal Social Barriers to HIV Prevention and Care in South Africa

Congratulations to International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) for a new article, published in PLOSONE: “Informing Comprehensive HIV Prevention: A Situational Analysis of the HIV Prevention and Care Context, North West Province South Africa,” authored by Sheri A. Lippman, Sarah Treves-Kagan, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Evasen Naidoo, Gertrude Khumalo-Sakutukwa, Lynae Darbes, Elsie Raphela, Lebogang Ntswane, and Scott Barnhart.

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