Established in 2007, the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health (DGH) seeks a visionary leader to become the Department Chair and recipient of the William H. Foege Endowed Chair in Global Health. Under the leadership of King Holmes, MD, PhD, the founding chair, our outstanding department has over 300 faculty, 470 students and fellows with 743 projects in 114 countries. The department is committed to fostering collaborative interdisciplinary programs to promote health worldwide.

Stephen S. Gloyd, MD, MPH, Professor of Global Health and of Health Services, will present the 38th Annual University Faculty Lecture, "Achieving Health for All in the 21st Century: Globalizing, Growing Inequality and Creative Response" on February 6 at at 7:00 p.m. in Kane Hall. Remarkable advances in global health have been achieved over the past three decades. Nevertheless, enormous gaps in health persist worldwide. Dr.

Prof. Scott Barnhart, MD, MPH, and Assoc. Prof. Amy Hagopian, PhD, MHA, joined a discussion on the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and transitioning to individual government ownership of HIV/AIDS efforts. They argue that this requires further local health system strengthening "of Marshall Plan proportions," stating, "to sustain care, countries are better served by a rapid scale-up in public-sector health system strengthening.

The KUSKAYA project presented jointly by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and the University of Washington in Seattle, was one of five projects in 2013 that received funding from the Fogarty International Center to establish a training program and Center for Innovation in Global Health to employ an interdisciplinary approach for understanding complex health problems, emphasizing leadership, business models, policy analysis and implementation science. KUSKAYA means "working together" in Quechua, a Peruvian native language.