In an effort to increase the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in global health interventions and address technical expertise gaps among scientists in developing countries, a new NIH initiative has awarded $1.6 million over three years to five institutions.
More than 1500 people from 50 countries will convene this weekend in Washington, D.C., around the topic of Universities 2.0: Advancing the Global Health Agenda in the Post-MDG Era. Both Department Chair King Holmes and Vice Chair Judith Wasserheit will introduce sessions, and Wasserheit has played a key role as Chair of the CUGH Board of Directors, Executive Scientific Program Committee and the CUGH Global Health Distinguished Leadership Award Committee. A total of 13 speakers are from the University of Washington.
University of Washington alum and music producer Ryan Lewis revealed last week that he and his mother have started a campaign to raise money to construct medical centers around the world. His mother, Julie Lewis, has been living with HIV for 30 years, something they stated publically for the first time as part of their effort to reduce stigma and raise support for 30/30, their new project. One week into their campaign, they had already raised $76,010 of their $100,000 goal.
Dawn Kopp, an obstetrics and gynecology resident at UW Medical Center/Harborview Medical Center, was selected for the 2014 University of North Carolina (UNC) Global Women's Health Fellowship. The fellowship was created in March 2012 as a joint venture with University of North Carolina Department of Ob/Gyn and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Internationally known UNC faculty member, Jeff Stringer, will lead this division with sites in Malawi and Zambia.
Lima, Peru -- The collaboration between the University of Washington and the University Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) became even stronger with the inauguration of a new center for interdisciplinary collaborations in global health at the UPCH campus. The KUSKA Center, named for the Quechua word “kuska” meaning “working together,” will serve as a catalyst for international collaborations that cross disciplines and institutions, with the objective of building teams working towards the same outcome – improved health and reduced inequalities.
The Department of Global Health hosted a high-level delegation from Central South University (CSU) in Changsha, China, April 9-10. The delegation, led by the university’s Vice President and two Deans, visited the UW with the express interest of building an ongoing relationship with the Department of Global Health. While here, the delegation presented on current efforts by CSU to promote and build global health programs, and discussed potential areas of future collaboration between CSU and the Department.
The Search Committee for the next Chair and Professor, Department of Global Health present the following candidates for Department of Global Health Chair:
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD (University of California San Diego)
Curriculum Vitae
Campus Visit: April 16-18
Seminar: April 17 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in T639
A new report on drug and vaccine safety in global health, co-authored by Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow, Council for Foreign Relations, and Andy Stergachis, is now available. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this report is the product of the Safety Surveillance Working Group, a year-long initiative to develop a practical, scalable strategy for improving drug and vaccine safety in low- and middle-income countries.
With growing talk of an HIV cure, the defeatHIV Community Advisory Board, along with the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research, and BABES Network-YWCA worked together to put on a “Community Q & A on HIV Cures” event April 2 with visiting scientist Robert Siliciano, a Professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world’s leading researchers on HIV.
Affiliate Professor Ken Stuart, PhD, has received the Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology, which recognizes scientific leaders currently making novel and significant discoveries on the biology of parasitic organisms. Dr. Stuart’s research is focused on trypanosomatid pathogens known to cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis for which there are few effective treatments and no current vaccines. Read more.