Call for Abstracts: Posters and Presentations
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2013 (we will notify submitters of their status by February 1, 2014).
October 29, 2013
The WRIHC Student Committee, the University of Washington (UW) Chapter of GlobeMed, and the UW Department of Global Health present the 11th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference (WRIHC):
Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements in Global Health
Events will take place at the University of Washington (UW) Husky Union Building (HUB) in Seattle, WA, April 4-6 2014.
"Even as medical researchers are making advances and poorer countries are reducing their rates of infections, people in developed nations have grown complacent and allowed gonorrhea, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases to spread again, an expert warns.
Speaking Wednesday to scientists gathered in Toronto for the country’s foremost science honour, the Gairdner Awards, Dr. King Holmes spoke of the need to remain vigilant as he gave fellow researchers a global picture of the fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
The UW/FHCRC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Developmental Core is delighted to announce this year’s New Investigator Awards.
The Department of Global Health is working with the UW in the High School (UWHS) program to offer Global Health 101: Introduction to Global Health, to high school students as early as the 2014-15 school year. Global Health will be the first Department in the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Schools to offer one of their courses to Washington high school students under this program. UWHS courses are taught by high school teachers, and students receive recognition for their work at most public institutions and many private ones.
The Washington Global Health Alliance will honor King K. Holmes, MD, PhD, William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at the University of Washington, with its first annual Award for Impact at “Party for the Health of It,” Nov. 9, 2013. Dr. Holmes receives this inaugural award because of his lifelong commitment to collaboration and mentorship. Hundreds of global health researchers and professionals have been mentored by Dr. Holmes since his start at the University of Washington in 1969.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, who was awarded Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health/ Pfizer Young Investigator Research Award.
Researchers from four universities, including University of Washington, conducted the first population-based survey since 2006 to estimate war-related deaths in Iraq and the first to cover the full-time span of the conflict.
All told, the researchers estimate nearly a half million people died from causes that could be attributed to the war. Their results were published Oct. 15 in the open access journal PLOS Medicine.
Dr. Ana Langer, the keynote speaker for the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series, 5 p.m. Nov. 7, 2013, at the Husky Union Building (HUB) North Ballroom, is respected worldwide as a leader in using research findings to influence policy and improve the overall quality of health care for women and families.
Dr. Langer, a physician specializing in pediatrics and neonatology, leads the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard, and for the past 25 years, she has been a leading researcher and advocate for the improvement of women’s health.