BIRCH team
March 22, 2013 | Department News

King Holmes' Legacy Honored

Dr. King K. Holmes,  chair of the UW Department of Global Health, won the prestigious 2013 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for his work in sexually transmitted diseases, the Gairdner Foundation announced March 20.
The award, valued at CAN$100,000 (about US$97,300) is one of the world’s most esteemed prizes for medical research. Since 1959, of the 312 individuals presented with a Canada Gairdner Award, 80 have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize.

BIRCH team
March 22, 2013 | Department News

David Fleming -- a Seattle Powerhouse for Global to Local

Dr. David Fleming, Director, Public Health- Seattle & King County, was named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Seattle Right Now" by Seattle Met Magazine. Dr. Fleming is on the Department's External Advisory Board and is a passionate advocate for the global-to-local movement, often reminding people that health disparities in King County are some of the most extreme in the nation.

BIRCH team
March 11, 2013 | Department News

Global Health Week on the Hill

The Washington Global Health Alliance, along with PATH, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI), the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, World Vision, International Medical Corps, the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation at UW, the Global Health Council and the Global Health Technologies Coalition created “Global Health Week on the Hill” Feb. 26-March 5, 2013, o highlight the critical role U.S. foreign assistance plays in health, security and diplomatic efforts worldwide.

BIRCH team
March 05, 2013 | Department News

Making Health Measurable: IHME Press Conference with Bill Gates

Bill Gates, co-founder of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at a press conference March 5, 2013 on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 put the study in historical perspective: “In fact, in the health world, I’d say there were kind of three milestones: There was 1993, where we got the World Development Report; there was some of the work that Hans Rosling did to try to show people the transitions we’re going through; and now, in a huge way, this is a big milestone that pulls everything together." To listen to the press conference,, you can tune into 

BIRCH team
February 14, 2013 | Department News

Deepa Rao Awarded Grant

Deepa Rao and colleagues received a $2.6 million NIH grant to study the effectiveness of a program to reduce stigma among African-American women with HIV.

BIRCH team
February 07, 2013 | Department News

New Leadership for Global Health Medical Programs

Dr. Susan Graham has taken over this year as the Director of the Global Health Pathway, a certificate program that requires a combination of a scholarly project, coursework, an international experience, a cross-cultural clinic experience, and community involvement, spread over the four years of medical education. Dr. Graham has directed the concurrent Global Health MD-MPH degree program for the past year, and her involvement with the Pathway and its curriculum has grown from that work. Dr.

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February 06, 2013 | Department News

Department Holds Inspiring Faculty Retreat

The Department of Global Health held an all-day faculty retreat Feb. 5 at the Talaris Center to explore how center, programs, and initiatives could work together better and launch new collaborations. More than 75 people attended and were given presentations on how people are collaborating across campus and with international partners. David Fleming, director of Public Health King County, gave a rousing speech on the need to work local where health disparities in Southern King County were the same as Kenya.

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