Exposure to heat waves over just two years could add up to 12 extra days of age-related health damage. “The results may have implications for public health interventions,” said Dr. Ebi, a professor at the University of Washington, noting that there are ways that governments can intervene to protect people in a warming world.
Researchers of the Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, a group of clinical experts and scientists including those from the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, investigated how often, when, and why young children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia die when admitted to hospitals.
Robert Jones, University of Washington's new President, now leads a school — and Seattle’s largest employer — that’s weathered several turbulent years of money problems, protests and a pandemic.
Kristie Ebi, Professor in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, mentions how toxic smoke caused by these fires can be due to containing more harmful components than we might think. “It’s not just leaves and branches and trees” that are burned, she said. “It’s buildings. It’s gasoline stations. It’s old houses that have asbestos in them. It’s automobiles. There are lots of components of wildfire smoke.”
Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and Global Environment at the University of Washington, told the Washington Post that "It is helpful to have more detailed analyses of temperature-morbidity relationships, to help identify interventions that could decrease hospitalizations during heat waves."
Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and Global Environment at the University of Washington, explains that: “It remains problematic to trade off mortality and morbidity from hot versus cold temperature extremes. People are not fungible. The goal of public health is to prevent as much morbidity and mortality as possible.”
Scientists argue that the administration's new report, composed in less than two months by five authors known to have skeptical views on climate science, would not pass any peer review process. Kristie Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, states that “There is a history of some of the authors of this document cherry-picking dates to show that there is no change, but they’re not providing the evidence to support that."
The dedication and innovation from our students in public health practice and research are part of what makes our department great. This summer we recognize several students in our department who have been selected for awards at the University of Washington. We would like to celebrate two of our students – Brekken Selah and Tessa Concepcion – for receiving School of Public health (SPH) Excellence Awards, and congratulate Grace Umutesi on the Runner Up and People’s Choice Awards for the 2025 UW Three Minute Thesis Competition. Congratulations!
UW Department of Global Health Professor and epidemiologist, Kristie Ebi, states that research regarding this intense heatwave may be underestimating the deaths because it relies on mortality data from a cooler past.
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On Friday, June 13, the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health (DGH) proudly celebrated the graduation of 58 students from over 15 countries.
These 58 graduates represented three doctoral and one master’s program: