By Mary Engel
A Fred Hutch and University of Washington team of virologists and bioengineers led by Dr. Keith Jerome has received a $200,000 grant — the first phase of up to $1.5 million in milestone-driven funding over four years — to develop nanocarrier technology to deliver therapies to reservoirs of dormant, HIV-infected cells.
From the Global WACh blog
As part of our commitment to meaningful research collaborations, Global WACh offers Integrated Health Seed Grants: one-year of seed funding for pioneering research to improve the health of women, adolescents, and children. The proposals we award recognize a global focus on community advocacy and innovative exploration.
For the 23rd time in the past 24 years, the University of Washington ranked as the No. 1 primary care medical education program in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Graduate School rankings.
The family medicine and rural medicine training programs have also led the nation since those rankings began in 1991. The UW’s doctor of nursing practice program landed in the No. 3 position.
Abebe Aberra, MPH, Department of Global Health alum and current UW employee, is one of the authors in a recently published article in Epidemiology Infections, Cambridge University Press 2017. “Hospital-acquired listeriosis linked to a persistently contaminated milkshake machine,” documents the investigation
by Sabra Zarâa, PharmD, Master of Public Health student and Fulbright Scholar
Christopher Sanford, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Global Health at the University of Washington and recognized expert in Tropical medicine, was featured on Outbreak News This Week Radio Show's Podcast to discuss a number of travel health related issues to include vaccines, malaria, yellow fever, traveler’s diarrhea.
By Robert Preidt
Getting people worldwide to eat more fruits and vegetables could significantly reduce disability and premature death from heart disease, researchers report.
For the study, investigators analyzed data and previous studies to determine how fruit and vegetable consumption affected the number of "heart disease-related disability-adjusted life years" (DALYs) -- healthy years lost to disability or death -- in 195 countries. Each DALY is one lost year of healthy life.
The 8th Annual CUGH Conference, one of the world's leading academic global health conferences, will be held in Washington, DC from April 6 to April 9, 2017.
Awards season is here!
2017 Abstract Submission: Department of Global Health (DGH) Global Healthies Poster Competition and Award Ceremony
Student, Medical Resident, and Fellow Poster Session and Awards Ceremony
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 12:00 pm
BBC Health Check recently visited Lima, Peru to investigate how new 'healthy gardens' and greenspaces are improving lives in the slum community of Iquitos. Joe Zunt, a Professor of Global Health at UW, has been working closely with landscape architecture student Jorge 'Coco' Alarcon and community partners to design backyard gardens that can improve air quality, reduce vector-borne diseases, and boost mental health.