Keeley Ffrench
MPH Mental Health
February 07, 2024 | Department News

MPH student Keeley Ffrench on social prescribing to improve the health impacts caused by loneliness and isolation

UW School of Public Health

For her practicum, Keeley Ffrench, a Master of Public Health student in Global Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, worked with the Vancouver Island Social Prescribing Community of Practice. Their goals were to scale up a social prescribing pilot project using evidence-based interventions implemented elsewhere in Canada through outreach, promotion and education. 

Malawi census collection. Wheller, 2016
Neglected Tropical Diseases DeWorm3 Global WACh
January 30, 2024 | Department News

Neglected Tropical Disease Day: How a DGH study is making strides towards STH elimination

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of 20 conditions, such as dengue, leprosy, and intestinal worms. NTDs affect over 1 billion people globally, and are associated with devastating health, social, and economic outcomes including permanent disability and impoverishment. The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to mobilize political will, community commitment, resources, and action needed to end unnecessary suffering from NTDs and shed light on the strides made in combating NTDs. As such, several NTDs are targeted for control for elimination by 2030.

BIRCH team
January 30, 2024 | Department News

BIPOC Individuals Bear Greater Post-COVID Burdens

UW Medicine Newsroom

A study investigating the longer-term impacts of acute COVID-19 infection across ethnic and racial groups reports that BIPOC individuals who were infected with COVID-19 experienced greater negative aftereffects in health and work loss than did similarly infected white participants.

Dr. Kelli O’Laughlin, associate professor of global health and of emergency medicine, is the lead author.

2023-24 Grs aduate RA Fellow Awardee
Graduate Student Master of Public Health in Global Health Implementation Science PhD PhD in Pathobiology Pathobiology DrGH DrGH in Global Health
January 29, 2024 | Department News

Meet the 2023-24 DGH Research Assistants, Fellows, and Awardees

Each year the UW Department of Global Health is able to provide partial to full funding to recruit top applicants. In addition to financial support, some recipients also receive mentorship and real-world experience through research assistant positions. For the 2023-24 academic year, 22 outstanding graduate students received funding to support their studies, 21 of whom are highlighted here. Learn more about this impressive cohort, including their journeys to arrive at UW and the impact they hope to have on the field of global health.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet photo
MLK Award Community Service Award MLK Jr. Community Service Award Awards
January 12, 2024 | Department News

MLK Award Recipient is a DGH Member for Sixth Consecutive Year

In 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed an audience and stated that “life's most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others?’" Today his legacy is one of service and community impact. To honor that legacy, The School of Public Health participates in the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute sponsored by UW Health Sciences Schools, UW Health Sciences Administration and UW Medicine. 

Pathobiology Malaria
January 04, 2024 | Department News

Classifying the Natural History of Asymptomatic Malaria

UW Medicine Newsroom

Detecting malaria in people who aren’t experiencing symptoms is vital to public health efforts to better control this tropical disease in places where the mosquito-borne parasite is common. Researchers found that parasite dynamics and the parasite species present were highly variable among patients with low-level, asymptomatic infections. This finding is important for improving studies on the prevalence of malaria infection and, by extension, for clinical trials of malaria vaccines and therapeutics.

Mohammad Gazi doing field work
Graduate Student DrGH DrGH in Global Health
January 02, 2024 | Department News

Q&A With Mohammad Gazi

Research Assistant with Julianne Meisner

Doctor of Global Health Leadership and Practice (DrGH) program

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.


I am currently a first-year student in the Doctor of Global Health Leadership and Practice (DrGH) program at the Department of Global Health (DGH) at the University of Washington (UW). I work as a research assistant in the INSIGHT project at I-TECH. I have also joined the UW SEAL team to learn and support public health activities in different communities.

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