More than 1500 people from 50 countries will convene this weekend in Washington, D.C., around the topic of Universities 2.0: Advancing the Global Health Agenda in the Post-MDG Era. Both Department Chair King Holmes and Vice Chair Judith Wasserheit will introduce sessions, and Wasserheit has played a key role as Chair of the CUGH Board of Directors, Executive Scientific Program Committee and the CUGH Global Health Distinguished Leadership Award Committee. A total of 13 speakers are from the University of Washington.

Dawn Kopp, an obstetrics and gynecology resident at UW Medical Center/Harborview Medical Center, was selected for the 2014 University of North Carolina (UNC) Global Women's Health Fellowship. The fellowship was created in March 2012 as a joint venture with University of North Carolina Department of Ob/Gyn and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Internationally known UNC faculty member, Jeff Stringer, will lead this division with sites in Malawi and Zambia.

The Department of Global Health hosted a high-level delegation from Central South University (CSU) in Changsha, China, April 9-10. The delegation, led by the university’s Vice President and two Deans, visited the UW with the express interest of building an ongoing relationship with the Department of Global Health. While here, the delegation presented on current efforts by CSU to promote and build global health programs, and discussed potential areas of future collaboration between CSU and the Department.

A new report on drug and vaccine safety in global health, co-authored by Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow, Council for Foreign Relations, and Andy Stergachis, is now available. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this report is the product of the Safety Surveillance Working Group, a year-long initiative to develop a practical, scalable strategy for improving drug and vaccine safety in low- and middle-income countries.