Three people in King County were potentially exposed to hantavirus, but Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and deputy director of the Center for One Health Research at the UW, says the local risk isn’t what worries him. His greater concern is that the world remains unprepared for the next pandemic.

The diets we eat today have less nutritional density than what our grandparents ate.  DGH professor Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.

As the world watches that Dutch cruise ship facing a hantavirus outbreak, we have very little reason to worry about a breakout here. Dr. Scott McClelland, professor of medicine, of global health, and of epidemiology at the UW, is interviewed.

A new UW course, called “Global Perspectives on Local Health Issues: Glocal Health”, responds to a current movement in rethinking global health, and applications of global health efforts to local scales in Washington and the United States.  DGH faculty member Dr. Kata Mucha is quoted.