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.

Dean Jamison, health economist, Prof. of Global Health, Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP3) Series Editor, and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, was profiled by Richard Lane of the Lancet on December 7. View the profile here.

Adjunct Professor Julie McElrath, MD, PhD was honored with the Puget Sound Business Journal 2013 Women of Influence Award for her work on HIV vaccine research on November 13, 2013.  Dr. McElrath is Senior Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and she has been working in the field of HIV/AIDS for more than 30 years. Read more.