MPH graduate Leo Achembong from Cameroon had this thesis published in Human Resources for Health. Authors: Achembong Leo Ndiangang, Ashu Agbor Michael, Hagopian Amy, Downer Ann, Barnhart Scott. Human Resources for Health.2012, 10:46.
Joanne Silberner, an artist-in-residence at UW Dept. of Communications, a Seattle journalist, and colleague who formerly produced many prize-winning reports on health for NPR, traveled across the planet to document the fight against cancer in poor countries with few resources.
The five-part series includes: 1) Report from Uganda on the country's only cancer doctor (until recently) for more than 30m people. In 2004, Dr. Jackson Orem teamed up with global health faculty Dr. Corey Casper and others from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
In 1993 the global heath community was introduced to a new way of measuring and valuing health and interventions to improve health – through an economic lens. The World Bank’s World Development Report ’93 looked at the topic of “Investing in Health,” examining the interplay between human health, health policy, and economic development.
Christopher J.L. Murray, a UW professor in global health and director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), on Dec. 6 gave a preview of a long awaited study (The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study) from IHME involving hundreds of researchers around the world. The study to be published in The Lancet on Dec. 14 is the first time the journal has dedicated an entire issue to one study, and it is the largest issue in the journal's history.
* Pathobiology PhD: The Pathobiology program welcomed five incoming students this autumn. They came from Michigan, Seattle and even Nairobi. Their backgrounds range from studying in an interdisciplinary program at Evergreen to obtaining a Masters in Public Health from Oregon Health and Science University.
The University of Nairobi recently received a Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)-linked award focused on research training in mental health. This three-year award. led by Dr. Muthoni Mathai from the University of Nairobi and Dr. Jurgen Unutzer from the University of Washington, builds upon the nearly 30-year research training collaboration between UW and the University of Nairobi. Dr. Deepa Rao is the UW program director.
Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective in the Feb. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
“It is time to sound the alarm,” said co-author Wasserheit. “Though there is no evidence yet of treatment failures in the United States, trends in decreased susceptibility coupled with a history of emerging resistance and reported treatment failures in other countries point to a likelihood of failures on the horizon and a need for urgent action.”
The Seattle organization Health Alliance International at UW, which recently launched a Mobile Moms text messaging service aimed at improving maternal health in Timor-Leste, is the beneficiary of the funds raised by the event’s ticket sales (which looked to be at least $40,000).
The Seattle area is full of institutions working on the problems of global health: fighting malaria, delivering vaccines, making childbirth safer and combating diseases like dengue fever. Tuesday, a new exhibit highlighting these contributions will open in the Next 50 Plaza at Seattle Center.
The FDA approved the first drug, known as Truvada, for preventing HIV in people at high risk of infection due to ‘discordance’ – science lingo for being HIV negative but having a sex partner who is HIV positive. Seattle scientists, as Tom Paulson reported almost exactly a year ago, played a critical role in demonstrating the drug’s effectiveness in Kenya and Uganda studies.