Sheridan Reiger, a medical and public health student at the University of Washington, has been selected by the School of Public Health for recognition Jan. 17 during the Martin Luther King Jr. tribute. Reiger grew up in Seattle and attended both Garfield High School and the Lakeside School. But when Dr. Paul Farmer came to speak to his senior class at Lakeside, his interest in equity became a pursuit.  After high school, he was certified as an emergency medical technician and got a volunteer job working in a clinic in Honduras for a summer.

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.