The UW is one of five consortia of colleges and universities  to receive funds from the National Institutes of Health to help foster the next generation of global health scientists. The Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars program is building a network of U.S. academic institutions to provide early career physicians, veterinarians, dentists and scientists with a significant mentored research experience in a developing country.

This GHDonline.org Expert Panel discussion, organized in collaboration with Partners In Health in conjunction with the Program Management Guide (http://www.pih.org/library/pih-program-management-guide), will address the ways that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can be used to assess whether, and how well, programs are being implemented as planned and achieving their goals and objectives. Kenneth Sherr, MPH, PhD, Assistant Prof. of Global Health at UW, will be part of the panel.

Students from different disciplines -- built environments, engineering, climate change, public health -- helped create a garden oasis in one of the largest slums in the world. The creation of green space is the first major project coordinated by UW in the Puente Piedra slum. UW faculty, students and local collaborators are also in the process of building a health clinic and new classrooms.

Student interest in global health is as big as ever. For the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year, 212 students applied for the MPH program: 133 in the General track, 34 in the Peace Corps track, 28 in the Health Metrics track, 10 in the Leadership track, and seven in the MD/MPH track. The Department will select 25-30 students. For the doctoral program in Pathobiology, at least 74 students applied, and the Department will select between four to seven students.