January 01, 2024 | Department News
January 01, 2024 | Department News
Q&A With Nowreen Sarwar
Department of Global Health Excellence Fellowship
Master of Public Health program
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
January 01, 2024 | Department News
Q&A With Amaya Gatling
GSEE Graduate Supplemental Award
Master of Public Health program
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
October 23, 2023 | Department News
Familiar ingredients make Afghan Food Guide easy to swallow
UW News
Diet recommendations can include unfamiliar foods and preparations. A digital handbook created by Priyasha Maharjan, doctor of global health leadership and practice student, and fellow UW School of Public Health graduate student Norma Garfias Avila, hopes to begin solving this problem. The Afghan Food Guide is a nutritional resource created for the Afghan community and their health care providers in the U.S. It shows the nutritional values of foods, balanced meals and portion sizes while using dishes and cultural examples familiar to Afghan people.
May 27, 2022 | Department News
Finding those who are forgotten in public health data
UW School of Public Health
In March of 2021, Horacio Chacon Torrico arrived in Seattle to begin his second year of graduate studies at the University of Washington School of Public Health, after having completed the first two quarters remotely from his home in Lima, Peru. Within no more than a week of arriving, he received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But as he scrolled through his Facebook feed, he saw posts from friends in Peru who grieved their lost loved ones from the pandemic. Chacon Torrico felt guilt at having so easily received his vaccine, when so many from his home country were suffering.
May 05, 2020 | Department News
Dispatch from a Brooklyn ER Nurse in the Time of COVID (By Mariel Boyarsky, MPH 2015)
By Mariel Boyarsky (MPH, 2015)
Mariel Boyarsky graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 with a Master of Public Health in Global Health. After completing nursing school, she began working at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York in 2019. This is Mariel's firsthand account of working in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 01, 2020 | Department News
Match Day Goes Virtual (UW Medicine - Quotes August Longino)
The COVID-19 crisis has brought a whirlwind of changes that have impacted everyone in our community — including this year’s graduating class of medical students at UW School of Medicine.
In the last few weeks, the students were pulled from their clinical rotations early.
Then, the difficult and unprecedented decision was made to hold the School’s Match Day ceremony online.
December 03, 2019 | Department News
Fulbright Program Brings Six Students to Department of Global Health
This year, the Department of Global Health welcomed six Fulbright scholars from Tunisia, Malawi, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Colombia. The Fulbright program provides prestigious grants that cover an academic year of living, studying, and engaging with the community at U.S. universities. Applying students submit a statement of defined activities they will pursue during their time in America, with graduate students having to demonstrate a capacity for independent study or research.
December 02, 2019 | Department News
DGH Students Gain Global Health Knowledge in Peace Corps
While completing a Masters of Public Health in the Department of Global Health, students have several ways to gain research and fieldwork experience around the world. Students have fellowship opportunities that allow for hands-on training in a multitude of countries, but the Peace Corps represents another way to apply classroom curriculum at UW to the real world.
September 20, 2019 | Department News
UW Department of Global Health Welcomes New Students
This year, the UW Department of Global Health (DGH) welcomes 65 new graduate students. These newest Huskies hail from 15 different countries (Afghanistan, Canada, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United States). They join the 139 continuing students already enrolled in Global Health MPH and PhD programs (68 MPH students, 45 PhD in Global health students, and 26 PhD in Pathobiology students).