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Q&A with Crystal Chhan
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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How King County's Newest Park Fits Into A Plan for Extreme Heat
The Glendale Forest near South Park is an example of the types of urban places becoming more important as climate warming continues. A study from the UW is referenced, and Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of...
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Expansion and targeted maturation of germline HIV-1 bNAb-associated BCRs
The objective of this grant is to investigate the relationship between the relative frequencies of target B cells and the binding affinity of the immunogen with the expansion and maturation of the target B cells in polyclonal immune system in vivo. In...
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UN Asks Nations to Better Prepare, Cool the Vulnerable As 'Extreme Heat Epidemic' Breaks Records
After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” ...
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Dengue antigen design for a safe effective vaccine
The focus is to design a set of antigens that drive the immune response in such a way that severe secondary disease of Dengue is avoided. Severe secondary infection disease is driven by a failed antibody response in part due to the ineffectual nature of...
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Dr. Carey Farquhar To Serve as Department of Global Health Interim Chair
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Researchers Win $2.7 Million NIH Grant to Reduce Child Mortality in Mozambique
A project by the University of Washington, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human...
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Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most
More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
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Expanding and Scaling Two-way Texting to Reduce Unnecessary Follow-Up and Improve Adverse Event Identification Among Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Clients in the Republic of South Africa
This prospective, randomized control to step-wedge trial in high-volume facilities providing VMMC in RSA in collaboration with Aurum Institute aims to test an interactive, two-way texting (2wT) intervention from Zimbabwe in the RSA rural and urban VMMC...
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Q&A with Tanvi Arkatkar
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...