BIRCH team
December 18, 2012 | Department News

Traumatic Brain Injury Study in Latin America

In a study published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at UW working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the standard of care for severe traumatic brain injury – showed no significant difference than a treatment based on imaging and clinical examination.
“Within this field, this is a game changer,” said Randall Chesnut, a UW Medicine neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and principal investigator of the study. “We’ve been treating a number not a physiology.”

BIRCH team
December 04, 2012 | Department News

Cancer's Global Reach

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.

BIRCH team
November 28, 2012 | Department News

Former Secretary of Treasury Lawrence H. Summers to Chair Lancet Commission on Investing in Health; UW's Dean Jamison to Co-Chair

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.

BIRCH team
November 28, 2012 | Department News

Christopher Murray Previews Global Burden of Disease Study

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.

BIRCH team
November 07, 2012 | Department News

Pathobiology and Pathway Student News

* 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.

BIRCH team
November 07, 2012 | Department News

Mental Health Partnership in Nairobi

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.

BIRCH team
August 22, 2012 | Department News

Judy Wasserheit Among Researchers Who Sound Alarm Over Threat of Untreatable Gonorrhea

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.”

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