December 23, 2015 | Department News
New HIV Researchers Get a Boost
The UW/FHCRC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Developmental Core is delighted to announce this year’s New Investigator Awards.
December 21, 2015 | Health News
Gizmag: New Compound Triggers Immune Response to Range of RNA Viruses, including Ebola and Hep C
A team of scientists from the University of Washington have discovered a drug-like molecule that could be used to combat all RNA viruses including Ebola. Adjunct Professor Michael Gale is quoted.
December 14, 2015 | Health News
NYT: Changes Coming for Health Care in China and Cuba
December 08, 2015 | Health News
NPR: The U.S. is a World Leader in Gun Deaths
By Anders Kelto
Imagine picking up the U.S. and dropping it into a different part of the world. How would its record of gun deaths compare to its neighbors?
November 19, 2015 | Health News
Yahoo: New Superbug Resistant to Last-line of Antibiotics
Marilyn Roberts is quoted in this story by Marlowe Hood.
Paris (AFP) - Scientists warned Thursday of the "epidemic potential" of deadly and fast-spreading bacteria resistant to last-line antibiotics.
The new superbugs, found in southern China, could erase nearly a century of antibiotic protection against killer diseases born by common germs such as E. coli, the researchers reported in a study.
November 18, 2015 | Health News
Standard Digital: Medic whose Academic Prowess Put Kenya on the Map
By Brigid Chemweno
NAIROBI: When Dr Peter Cherutich was awarded the 2015 Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence at the University of Washington School of Public Health, he put Kenya on the map for his academic prowess and received a standing ovation after delivering his acceptance speech.
The Deputy Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health was undertaking the Doctoral Programme in Global Health: Metrics and Implementation Science at the US based university and he emerged as the sole recipient of the doctorate degree.
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November 18, 2015 | Department News
DCPN: Taxes and Vaccinations are Most Cost Effective Interventions against Cancer
SEATTLE, Washington – The latest Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition (DCP3) volume on cancer, available today, gathers essential information on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, feasibility and affordability of a range of interventions to provide evidence-based guidance to decision makers worldwide. It is available online now at www.dcp-3.org/cancer and through the World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository.
November 16, 2015 | Health News
NPR: The Debate is On: To Deworm or Not to Deworm?
By Susan Brink
..."There's evidence that children treated with deworming medication grow better and have better cognitive performance," says Judd Walson, associate professor at the University of Washington. Walson wrote an editorial in the Oct. 22 issue of PLOS: Neglected Tropical Diseases. "A study from Kenya showed better school performance and even better job performance.“
November 05, 2015 | Department News
SPH Close Up: Aaron Katz
Faculty member Aaron Katz's passion is researching health care markets, policy and outcomes. "Do people get the care they need at the time they need it for an affordable price?" he asks in the latest SPH Close Up. Katz is an Adjunct Principal Lecturer of Global Health in addition to his appointment as Principle Lecturer of Health Services.
October 23, 2015 | Health News
NPR: Breast Cancer in the Developing World: Rising Rates, Shrouded in Silence
By Marc Silver
A woman finds a lump in her breast.
And for a long time, she doesn't tell anybody. Not her family. And not her doctor.
That happens all too often in low- and lower-middle-income countries, says Dr. Ben Anderson, a surgical oncologist who is the director of the Breast Health Global Initiative at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.