Pages
-
Making Health Measurable: IHME Press Conference with Bill Gates
Bill Gates, co-founder of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at a press conference March 5, 2013 on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 put the study in historical perspective: “ In fact, in the health world, I’d say there were kind of three...
-
Two UW researchers named AAAS Fellows
2024-AAAS-Fellows-750x422.png ...
-
Global Health Interest Group and Journal Club
The Global Health Interest Group (GHG) is made up of medical students committed to creating opportunities to engage in global health activities. They plan and execute seminars, panels, socials, and a journal club, and advocate for awareness around...
-
The climate crisis will amplify the UK’s existing health inequalities
The health inequalities between different ethnicities, neighborhoods and social classes are already stark, with millions of women in the most deprived areas in England dying almost eight years earlier than those from wealthier areas. ...
-
Wildfire Smoke Increases the Risk of Contracting Covid-19
As the world warms, disasters collide. That’s happening right now, as health experts warn that exposure to wildfire smoke across North America increases the risks of catching COVID-19 and worsens the impacts for people who already have or are...
-
Department Alumnus Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Maria I. Echavarria Mejia’s (MPH in Leadership and Policy Management, ’13) work on social networking sites was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on health and health care in the...
-
DGH Funding Application for International Fieldwork Due Soon
Residents&Fellows-single pic-2013-2014.jpg ...
-
The death rate for children has dropped dramatically. Yet there's cause for alarm
Around the world, the death rate of children has been dropping dramatically. But a new study in The Lancet Global Health points out an underlying tragedy among the childhood deaths that do occur today. Too many are coming after children have been...
-
Diagnosing Domestic Violence: How Are We Doing? The Culture of DV Screening and Disclosure in an Urban Hospital Setting
This project is a compilation of four years of qualitative, ethnographic, and survey data from a community medicine, women's prenatal clinic addressing domestic violence screening in clinical settings. ...
-
Chris Boyer
Research Coordinator, CHanGE ...