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Disease Control Priorities Project (Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting)
This is a research consortium that seeks develop new methods and tools for priority setting in health and builds on the Disease Control Priorities Network investment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The current secretariat for the consortium is...
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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...
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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...
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Money 4 Drugz
A rap about Dr. Wes Van Voorhis' lab in the UW Department of Medicine, where they do research on drug development for infectious diseases.Van Voorhis is an Adjunct Prof. of Global Health and Microbiology.
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Carbon dioxide helps plants grow — that doesn't mean more of it is good for the planet
Excess carbon dioxide does increase growth in some crops, but it also decreases their nutritional value and has other negative impacts on the planet, such as increasing droughts and fires through climate change. ...
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Resistance to M. tuberculosis
In endemic settings, some adults who are heavily and repeatedly exposed to M. tuberculosis never develop latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) as defined by a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or interferon gamma release assay (IGRA). These...
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UW Alum and Faculty Member Named Minister of Health for Peru
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NPR: WHO Says Ebola Epidemic Is Over. What Have (And Haven't) We Learned?
By Karin Huster, MPH ('14) ...
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Over 1.2 mln people died from drug-resistant infections in 2019 - study
More than 1.2 million people died in 2019 from infections caused by bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, higher than HIV/AIDS or malaria, according to a new report published on Thursday. ...
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Chris Boyer
Research Coordinator, CHanGE ...