May 12, 2016 | Health News
Lancet: Investing in Adolescent Health and Well-being Could Transform Global Health for Generations to Come
Originally published by The Lancet on May 9, 2016
May 05, 2016 | Health News
Puget Sound Business Journal: UW President: Place of Birth or Ethnicity Should Not Determine Your Health
By Coral Garnick
University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce is challenging the people and companies in the Puget Sound area to come up with solutions to improve the health of people in the region and across the country.
She announced Tuesday she is creating a population health leadership council. The group will be charged with developing a 25-year vision for making the UW and the Puget Sound region a global hub for improving population health.
April 29, 2016 | Health News
NBC: New Map Finds 2 Billion People at Risk of Zika Virus
By Maggie Fox
A new global map calculating when and where Zika virus is likely to spread shows 2 billion people could be in the Zika zone.
Nearly 300 million people in the Americas live in areas where the mosquitoes that spread Zika thrive, and more than 5 million babies a year are born to women living in these areas, the team at the University of Washington, Oxford University and elsewhere report in the journal ELife.
April 20, 2016 | Health News
Co.Design: How Designers are Helping HIV Researchers Find a Vaccine
Rethinking how scientists share data -- especially the inconclusive results -- may be the key.
By Mark Wilson
The Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consists of a group of labs across the world, all pooling their data with one goal in mind: to create an AIDS vaccine as fast as possible. But the theory of sharing vast amounts of data is easier than the practice.
April 19, 2016 | Health News
PBS NewsHour: Map: Do you live in an area where Zika could strike?
By Nsikan Akpan
A third of the world’s population is at risk of catching the Zika virus, according to a new study led by scientists at Oxford University in England.
April 08, 2016 | Health News
New York Times: For Some Nonprofits, Changing the World Begins in Seattle
By Kirk Johnson
SEATTLE — Inside the factory buildings at Cascade Designs, just south of downtown Seattle, camping and hiking gear for the rugged outdoor life of the Pacific Northwest has been manufactured since the early 1970s. But turn a corner and something new is coming off the shop floor: a compact, no-frills water purifier designed to bring clean water to struggling populations in rural Africa.
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March 31, 2016 | Health News
Scientific American: Paper Diagnostic Tests Could Save Thousands of Lives
By Prachi Patel
...Paul Yager, a biochemist at the University of Washington, meanwhile, has developed a handheld plastic device the size of two stacked card decks that contains strips of patterned paper and wells containing reagents and dyes, and into which a user would insert a fluid sample. The patterns of dots that appear after 20 minutes could be read by a clinician or sent via smartphone camera to a physician elsewhere. Yager says that the box could cost as little as $1 to manufacture in bulk.
March 28, 2016 | Health News
NPR: WHO Says Ebola Epidemic Is Over. What Have (And Haven't) We Learned?
By Karin Huster, MPH ('14)
This month marks two years since the first Ebola cases were confirmed in Guinea. The time has come for recollection and reflection, frank opinions and lessons learned. What did we do well? What should we have done differently? What has Ebola taught us? I spent 6 weeks in Liberia, 4 1/2 months in Sierra Leone, and 6 months in Guinea during the epidemic, working with Ebola patients and focusing on strategies to fight the disease. These thoughts come from the experiences that I had working in the field.
March 24, 2016 | Health News
Puget Sound Business Journal: UW Receives Grant for Mobile Health Care Technology in Africa
The University of Washington received a $250,000 grant this week to continue a project that allows pregnant women in remote Africa to access health care through text message.
February 22, 2016 | Health News
New York Times: Vaginal Ring with Drug Lowers HIV Rates in African Women
A flexible and inexpensive ring that is inserted into the vagina, where it slowly releases an antiviral drug, helped protect African women against contracting H.I.V. from their sexual partners, researchers said Monday in reports on two major studies that included more than 4,500 women.