The diets we eat today have less nutritional density than what our grandparents ate.  DGH professor Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.

As the world watches that Dutch cruise ship facing a hantavirus outbreak, we have very little reason to worry about a breakout here. Dr. Scott McClelland, professor of medicine, of global health, and of epidemiology at the UW, is interviewed.

A new UW course, called “Global Perspectives on Local Health Issues: Glocal Health”, responds to a current movement in rethinking global health, and applications of global health efforts to local scales in Washington and the United States.  DGH faculty member Dr. Kata Mucha is quoted.

It has been over a hundred years since the first tuberculosis vaccine was invented, and yet tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease.  That is now poised to change. There are several new TB vaccines now in phase III clinical trials and the world is closer than ever to a breakthrough that could save 8.5 million lives by 2050. Yet questions remain regarding how well the new vaccines will be accepted b