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:
As part of the groundbreaking project for the UW Department of Global Health and China public health, we are pleased to welcome two outstanding faculty who arrived in Seattle last week. Drs. Jiayan Huang, and Hui Yin will be at the University of Washington as faculty scholars for six months.
By Bobbi Nodell and Amelia Vader | Department of Global Health
MARCH 7 -- Complete with red carpet and paparazzi, six students were awarded “Global Healthies” awards for outstanding achievement in global health March 6.
The inaugural Global Healthies award ceremony, held in Kane Hall, awarded students in six categories, including the People’s Choice Oscar Gish Social Justice Award. Each awardee received $500.
More than 30 projects were displayed in a poster event before the ceremony, allowing people to vote for the Oscar Gish award.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health 5th Annual Conference
Universities 2.0: Advancing the Global Health Agenda in the Post-MDG Era
May 10-12, 2014 │Washington, DC | www.2014CUGHconference.org │ info@2014CUGHconference.org
Join the School of Public Health in our annual Day of Service! April 12, 2014
The SPH Day of Service is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to come together and give back to the community through direct service.
Transportation and a boxed lunch provided! Projects include:
Food Lifeline
Shoreline Volunteer Repack Center
1-4pm
Amid a crowd of 150 health workers, government officials, and members of the press, early this month I-TECH Zimbabwe and partners celebrated the launch of the Training and Mentoring Program and the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program. Both of these programs – funded by PEPFAR and implemented by I-TECH and local partners with support from the CDC – support the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care to build local capacity and provide comprehensive services to combat HIV/AIDS. Among the speakers at the launch were David Bruce Wharton, U.S.