The DGH Chair Search Committee has extended an invitation to campus to three new candidates for Department Chair of Department of Global Health. All the candidates are accomplished leaders with substantial experience living, working, and partnering with institutions in the Global South. Talks begin Wednesday, November 29.
You are invited to attend each candidate’s:
Countless years of compounded medical apartheid injustices can greatly set back or negate modern medicine’s medical advancements if swift changes are not enacted to recognize and rectify the numerous inequities.
This fall, the Department of Global Health is proud to welcome 53 new graduate students into our community.
The Department of Global Health is thrilled to welcome two new Assistant Teaching Professors to join its team of dedicated faculty this fall 2023. Their worldly and cross-cultural experiences, dedication to the field of global health and equity, and commitment to teaching and enriching the student experience will be welcomed assets to our department.
The Department of Global Health works to achieve sustainable, quality health worldwide through the focused mission of improving health for all through research, education, training, and service. Prerequisite to our success is our shared commitment to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion within DGH and pursuing antiracist and anticolonial actions in all of our work.
On Thursday, June 8, 2023, the UW Department of Global Health held its 16th annual graduation celebration since the department’s inception in 2007. This year we celebrated and honored the accomplishments of 64 graduates: 40 graduates in the Master of Public Health program and 24 doctoral students – which includes six from the Pathobiology PhD program and 18 from the Global Health Metrics and Implementation Science PhD program.
This year, the UW Department of Global Health (DGH) welcomes 65 new graduate students. These newest Huskies hail from 15 different countries (Afghanistan, Canada, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United States). They join the 139 continuing students already enrolled in Global Health MPH and PhD programs (68 MPH students, 45 PhD in Global health students, and 26 PhD in Pathobiology students).
Get the latest news from the Department of Global Health in the latest DGH Digest, available for viewing and downloading here.
The July edition features stories about new forms of HIV prevention and tuberculosis testing, photos from the IAS Conference in Mexico City, and news about new hires within the department.
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