Al Jazeera launched a new global talk show called South 2 North -- the first global talk show based in Africa. The host, Redi Thlabi, talks to intriguing personalities from around the world. In the first episode, available online, Tlhabi talks to best-selling Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy and hears why she thinks that Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi should not be made into icons. 

The Department's Global Medicine's Program reports on its work with the assessment of the pharmacovigilance and drug regulatory systems in Bangladesh.

Global health graduate Zied Mhirsi of Tunisia, will be one of the young leaders featured in a new English series documentary on Al Jazeera called Tutu's Children.  Four special documentaries will follow the exploits of participants in the leadership program Desmond Tutu leads in an attempt to build a new network of African leaders, who are together committed to tackling their countries’ most stubborn problems.Mhirsi, a doctor, who received his MPH degree from UW, returned to Tunisia after graduation and founded a radio show called Tunisia Live that played a pivotal role in the country's

In a study published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at UW working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the standard of care for severe traumatic brain injury – showed no significant difference than a treatment based on imaging and clinical examination.
“Within this field, this is a game changer,” said Randall Chesnut, a UW Medicine neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and principal investigator of the study. “We’ve been treating a number not a physiology.”