Design Corps picked a UW project in Peru, Comunidad Ecologica Saludable (Healthy Ecological Community), as one of six Public Interest Design Global winners. Applicants came from 28 countries. This is the sixth design award for the project headed by Assoc. Prof. Ben Spencer (Landscape Architecture), and Prof. Susan Bolton (Environmental and Forest Sciences) to create a green space in the desert community of Puente Piedra, Peru.

Other awards for this project include:

Maurizio Vecchione, the Vice President for Global Good at Intellectual Ventures, gave the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series talk Dec. 5 in Kane Hall on “Unlocking the Power of Invention for Developing Countries,” which united UW business and global health students.

On December 3, 2013, The Lancet published Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation. This major new report was prepared by The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), co-chaired by DCP3 series editor, and University of Washington Professor Dean Jamison, PhD, and chaired by Lawrence H.

In an article published November 19 by The Lancet, UW Department of Global Health faculty Dean Jamison, MS, PhD, and Carol Levin, MSc, PhD and colleagues outline a new framework for policy decision-making related to funding women's and children's health services.