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Fifth National Climate Assessment shows what the Northwest can expect without climate action
On Nov. 14, the Biden Administration released the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA) detailing how climate change is affecting the United States and how institutions and communities are responding. The report, mandated every four years, is...
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Extreme heat is taking a bigger toll than we thought
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Smoking and other risk factors cause almost half of cancer deaths, study finds
Smoking, drinking alcohol, being overweight and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million cancer deaths around the world in 2019, new research suggests. The new study is the first to estimate how a list of 34 risk factors...
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Together, we are ready
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Nhi Ho
She/Her nhiho@uw.edu Year Entered: 2022 Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Prior Degree and Institution: Lewis and Clark College: BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology RESEARCH INTERESTS Host-pathogen interactions, maternal-fetal health
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Assoc. Prof. Michael Chung Awarded Fogarty's Research Training eCapacity Initiative Grant Award
In an effort to increase the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in global health interventions and address technical expertise gaps among scientists in developing countries, a new NIH initiative has awarded $1.6 million over three...
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UW SPH’s Connie Celum receives the 2024 ASPPH Research Excellence Award
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Science Daily: Cardiovascular Disease Causes One-third of Deaths Worldwide
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) - including heart diseases and stroke - account for one-third of deaths throughout the world, posing an alarming threat to global health, according to a new study. Countries with the greatest number of cardiovascular...
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USAID DEEP VZN
This project will be a multi-country effort to detect future pandemic threats in the form of animal viruses with zoonotic potential. It will strengthen local efforts in high priority countries to sample humans and animals to detect “spillover” of...
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UW Leads NIH-Funded Consortium to Train Global Health Researchers
The UW is one of five consortia of colleges and universities to receive funds from the National Institutes of Health to help foster the next generation of global health scientists. The Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars program...