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Widely available antibiotic helps prevent bacterial STIs in certain populations, UW clinical trial finds
New research has found an antibiotic that’s been around for decades could help prevent sexually transmitted bacterial diseases, according to a recent University of Washington clinical trial that proved so effective in certain populations it ended early....
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PEPFAR Partnership Framework Policy Monitoring Project
Work with United States Government, national government, and civil society representatives from PEPFAR countries to monitor and evaluate progress towards health policy initiatives identified in national Partnership Framework agreements. ...
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Katherine Foster
Assistant Professor, Global Health ...
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Q&A with Esther Choo
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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Duber appointed as KPHD’s new permanent health officer
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DoxyPEP is a morning-after pill to prevent sexually transmitted infections
Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections is on the brink of entering mainstream medicine. That tool is doxyPEP, an antibiotic that works like a morning-after pill — but instead of preventing...
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Advancing Innovative Next-Generation Heterologous Vaccines Against Tuberculosis
This project is an NIH/NIAID R61 award to develop novel novel vaccine approaches against TB, including innovative vaccine adjuvants for subunit protein antigens, RNA vaccine antigens, and heterologous combinations of RNA and adjuvanted protein vaccine...
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What's Being Done in Washington State Around Ebola Oubreak?
The Washington Global Health Alliance has compiled a list of the many efforts going on in the state around containing the Ebola outbreak. For more information, go to the WGHA website.
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Scientific American: Bill Gates Views Good Data as Key to Global Health
In an interview with Scientific American the philanthropist talks about the statistics that inspire him most including the work of Professor Christopher Murray and his leadership of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University...
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Congrats to Six Faculty, Staff and Students Who Received SPH Excellence Awards!
Six exceptional members of the Department of Global Health were honored at the 2014 School of Public Health Excellence Awards, which recognized and celebrated the outstanding achievement of staff, students, and faculty. All were acknowledged at the...