The Washington Global Health Fund (WGHF) awarded two grants to two Washington-based companies. $120,000 was granted to BURN Design Lab. The funding will help in developing an even lower-cost charcoal stove, making fuel-efficient stoves available over the next 10 years to 5 million more people at the bottom of the bottom of the pyramid in East Africa. $50,000 was granted to PRONTO International, to help in producing kits for conducting high-fidelity, low-cost simulation and team trainings for obstetric and neonatal emergencies.

Joanne Silberner, an artist-in-residence at UW Dept. of Communications, a Seattle journalist, and colleague who formerly produced many prize-winning reports on health for NPR, traveled across the planet to document the fight against cancer in poor countries with few resources.
The five-part series includes: 1) Report from Uganda on the country's only cancer doctor (until recently) for more than 30m people. In 2004, Dr. Jackson Orem teamed up with global health faculty Dr. Corey Casper and others from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Christopher J.L. Murray, a UW professor in global health and director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME),  on Dec. 6 gave a preview of a long awaited study (The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study) from IHME involving hundreds of researchers around the world. The study to be published in The Lancet on Dec. 14 is the first time the journal has dedicated an entire issue to one study, and it is the largest issue in the journal's history.