The Department's Global Medicine's Program reports on its work with the assessment of the pharmacovigilance and drug regulatory systems in Bangladesh.
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.
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
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.
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.”
The long-awaited Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was published in The Lancet Dec. 14 receiving worldwide press coverage.Follow the link to read summaries and articles from major news publications. The New York Times: Life Expectancy Rises Around the World, Study Finds.
MPH graduate Leo Achembong from Cameroon had this thesis published in Human Resources for Health. Authors: Achembong Leo Ndiangang, Ashu Agbor Michael, Hagopian Amy, Downer Ann, Barnhart Scott. Human Resources for Health.2012, 10:46.
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.
In 1993 the global heath community was introduced to a new way of measuring and valuing health and interventions to improve health – through an economic lens. The World Bank’s World Development Report ’93 looked at the topic of “Investing in Health,” examining the interplay between human health, health policy, and economic development.
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.