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Population Health Initiative Ana Mari Cauce
May 03, 2018 | Department News

Population Health Initiative Recognizes Its Second Anniversary with Release of Community Report

Dear Friends:

Two years ago, we launched the Population Health Initiative with the goal of bringing our University together with external partners in a more interdisciplinary and collaborative way to speed progress toward improving health and well-being here and around the world. Our vision is grand in scale, but our work proceeds in the knowledge that ultimately, it is the health of communities — and the people in them — that matters.

BIRCH team
climate change Center for Health and the Global Environment Kristie Ebi
May 02, 2018 | Health News

The CDC Won’t Tell You One Reason Mosquito-borne Disease is on The Rise

By Nicole Karlis / Salon

According to the Centers for Disease Control monthly report, vector-borne diseases have nearly tripled since 2004.

Mosquito and tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the United States. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who has issued its monthly Vital Signs report just in time for summer 2018.

Nepal Studies Initiative Nepal Bioengineering Dhulikhel Hospital Office of Global Affairs
April 19, 2018 | Department News

Quality Healthcare for All Through Partnerships and Innovation: Nepal-UW Symposium

How can mutually beneficial global collaborations help find solutions to real-world problems? What are innovative approaches to sustainable collaborations?

The recent "UW-Nepal Partnerships in Health Innovation: Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Population Health" symposium tackled such questions in panel discussions featuring UW and Kathmandu University faculty from multiple disciplines.

BIRCH team
Universal Health Coverage Sustainable Development Goals Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
April 17, 2018 | Health News

New Study Finds People Covered by Universal Health Coverage Will Fall Far Below UN Sustainable Development Goal

By IHME

An estimated 5.4 billion people globally are expected to be covered under some form of universal health care (UHC) by 2030, up from 4.3 billion in 2015, but far below the related target in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, according to a new scientific study.

I-TECH Zimbabwe ZAZIC VMMC HIV/AIDS
March 30, 2018 | Department News

Washington Faculty Receives $9.2 Million Award to Prevent HIV Infections in Zimbabwe

Dr. Scott Barnhart, from the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) within the University of Washington Department of Global Health, has received $9.2 million for year 1 of a 5-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to help control the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe through expanding voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC).

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