Congratulations to Dr. Dickens Onyango (Deputy Director of Medical Services, Kisumu County Health Department and visiting research scientist at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya) for receiving a National Institute of Health Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award for “Enhancing Adherence and Completion of the Three-Month Isoniazid with Rifapentine (3HP) Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy Regimen Through Biomarker-Guided Adherence Counselling (ACT-TPT).”

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that protects teeth from tooth decay. Generally, all water contains some naturally occurring fluoride, but not enough to prevent tooth decay, which has led many communities to add additional fluoride to the water to combat tooth decay. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he intends to push for removal of fluoride from the public water supplies across the country, calling it an “industrial waste.” Dr.

In recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on getting rid of an algorithmic process called "differential privacy", which was created to keep census data from being used to identify individual respondents. According to research by Abraham Flaxman, associate professor of global health and of health metrics sciences at the UW, this could mean that someone could use census data without differential privacy to identify transgender youth. 

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 

Time: 9:00am - 4:40pm | Gregorio Millett's keynote presentation from 9:05am – 10:05am