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Climate Change Could Result in "Mass Casualty"
The Supreme Court has voted to curb the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions. This comes amid a period of increasingly extreme weather around the world. ...
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Humanosphere: A New Way to Measure Progress in Global Health
By Sean McKee, special to Humanosphere ...
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De-medicalization among health care providers in Sudan
Mixed methods will be used to understand motivators/barriers for this practice among health providers and develop/pilot interventions and assess their impact. Primary collaborators will be from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Sudan Ministry...
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The Guardian: Smoking Causes One in Ten Deaths Globally, Major New Study Reveals
By Sarah Boseley ...
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MPH Graduate Jillian Pintye Wins Young Investigator Award at International AIDS Conference
Congrats to Jillian Pintye, MPH '14 (Epi, Global Health), who won a prestigious Young Investigator Award at the 20 th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia, July 20-25. The US$2,000 Young Investigator Award is jointly...
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HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)
The HVTN is the largest clincial trials platform for testing of HIV vaccines. The coordinating center, laboratory and data management/statistic center are in Seattle. Trials are conducted in the US, Caribbean, South America, Europe and Africa. ...
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Bird flu shows up in Washington state seals, alarming scientists
An outbreak of bird flu has spread to harbor seals off the coast of Washington in the first documented instance of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast. ...
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Seattle TB Research Advancement Center
This center (SEA-TRAC) grant aims to facilitate a decrease in the global TB burden through training and multi-disciplinary research. It is a collaboration between UW, Fred Hutch, and SCRI. The program will pursue new initiatives collaborating with other...
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Evaluation of the Coptic Hospital / University of Washington Collaborative HIV-1 Care Program - Kenya
We aim to: (1) Describe population characteristics, enrollment trends, and follow-up at large and growing HIV Treatment Clinics (2)Determine the impact of programmatic service delivery and specific aspects of HIV care in resource poor settings on...
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DCP3's Rachel Nugent Contributes to Scientific American Issue on Cardiovascular Disease
A new Scientific American (SA) article special issue highlights the 12 recommendations of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report , Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, ...