Patricia Garcia
Patricia Garcia Alumni faculty Peru
August 03, 2016 | Department News

UW Alum and Faculty Member Named Minister of Health for Peru

Patricia García, a faculty member in Global Health and 1998 alumna of the University of Washington School of Public Health, was named Minister of Health for Peru and sworn in on July 28.  She is former chair of the Peruvian National Institute of Health. 

Garcia trained in internal medicine, infectious disease and public health at the UW. She is actively involved in research and training on STI/HIV, global health, HPV and medical informatics.

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Randall Kyes
Randy Kyes Indonesia Nepal Field Research Environmental Health faculty
July 22, 2016 | Department News

UW Today: From Crop-raiding Monkeys to Political Unrest: UW’s Randy Kyes Embarks on 100th Field Course

A chance meeting with a fellow scientist 27 years ago forever changed Randy Kyes’ life — catapulting him from North Carolina to Indonesia and beyond. As the founding director of the University of Washington’s Center for Global Field Study and head of the Division of Global Programs at the Washington National Primate Research Center, Kyes has spent almost three decades leading field courses on environmental and global health in a dozen countries.

Grace John-Stewart PrEP HIV Prevention Adolescent health Global WACh Carol Levin Gabrielle O’Malley Jared Baeten Ruanne Barnabas
July 22, 2016 | Department News

UW Awarded DREAMS Innovation Challenge to Bring PrEP to Adolescents in Kenya

The University of Washington is one of 56 DREAMS Innovation Challenge winners* announced on Monday by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Janssen), one of the Janssen pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson; and ViiV Healthcare.

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Jared Baeten HIV Prevention HIV/AIDS Fred Hutch
July 20, 2016 | Department News

NewsBeat: Vaginal Ring Better against HIV than Initial Results Showed

New data analyses finds that a monthly vaginal ring containing an antiretroviral drug called dapivirine can cut women’s HIV risk by more than half and, in some, by 75 percent or more.

One of the researchers, Jared Baeten, a University of Washington professor of epidemiology, medicine and global health, presented the results Tuesday at the AIDS 2016 conference in Durban, South Africa.

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Ebola IHME David Pigott Data Visualization Infectious Disease
July 15, 2016 | Department News

IHME: Over 20 Countries Environmentally Suitable for Ebola Transmission by Bats

Though the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2013 is now under control, 23 countries remain environmentally suitable for animal-to-human transmission of the Ebola virus. Only seven of these countries have experienced cases of Ebola, leaving the remaining 16 countries potentially unaware of regions of suitability, and therefore underprepared for future outbreaks.

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