Both Humanosphere and the School of Public Health have great stories on global health students. The School of Public health higlighted some of the Thomas Francis Jr. Global Health Fellows who work across the globe in different disciplines. Projects have been carried out in more than a dozen countries, from Bolivia to Timor-Leste.
Students from different disciplines -- built environments, engineering, climate change, public health -- helped create a garden oasis in one of the largest slums in the world. The creation of green space is the first major project coordinated by UW in the Puente Piedra slum. UW faculty, students and local collaborators are also in the process of building a health clinic and new classrooms.
To showcase the work at UW in global health, we ned to collect innovations and activities for visitors to see this summer at the Seattle Center.
Student interest in global health is as big as ever. For the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year, 212 students applied for the MPH program: 133 in the General track, 34 in the Peace Corps track, 28 in the Health Metrics track, 10 in the Leadership track, and seven in the MD/MPH track. The Department will select 25-30 students. For the doctoral program in Pathobiology, at least 74 students applied, and the Department will select between four to seven students.
Brent Barker, the Global Travel Security and Information Manager at UW, spoke at a recent faculty meeting on important updates to the University's Global Emergency Management Plan. He said now faculty and staff can be added along with students to a Travel Registry. The registry allows the University to identify and help travelers in an emergency, including sending a message on things like warnings and where to take shelter. During the Japan earthquake, for example, the registry allowed the University to identify 30 students and four faculty.
Applications are being accepted for the Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children this winter quarter and spring 2012. The curriculum of the certificate program is designed to give students a base of knowledge they can draw from when faced with a variety of issues in resource-poor settings. GH/HSERV 544 is the flagstone course in the program and provides a strong base of knowledge from which to build. This class is only offered in winter quarter and there are spots available for the upcoming session.
To celebrate World AIDS Day on Thursday, Global 99 and the Critical Development Forum aimed to bridge the relationship between global inequality and the AIDS epidemic.The event on campus included a panel of seven AIDS activists and public health practitioners who brought personal experiences, issues in resource-limited countries, and underrepresented topics of the disease to the discussion.
A UW graduate course in HIV has been awarded a global health prize that recognizes the most original project conducted to alleviate poverty-related chronic and/or infectious disease in the last year. The course, Global Health 573 “Clinical Management of HIV,” received the Velji Award for Global Health Project of the Year Nov. 15 at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference in Montreal. The course is directed by Nina Kim, UW assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Members of the Department of Global Health are making a big showing at the 2011 meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) meeting in Montreal Nov. 13-15. At last count, UW had one plenary speaker -- Patricia Garcia; three moderators -- King Holmes, Judith Wasserheit, Ann Anderson; one commentator -- Stephen Gloyd; one workshop facilitator -- Daren Wade; and one big award for Global Health Project of the Year ( details forthcoming).
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street global movement, a group of faculty, staff and students from the University of Washington created a new collective called “Global 99” to look beyond the United States borders to the 99% around the world struggling for a more just global financial order. As global health advocates, members of Global 99 seek to highlight and act upon the growing health inequalities around the world.