For more than a decade, the US dramatically reduced its national smog levels, but since 2015 smoke from increasingly larger wildfires is reversing that clean-up trend and making the air dirtier and deadlier, a new study finds. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Three people in King County were potentially exposed to hantavirus, but Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and deputy director of the Center for One Health Research at the UW, says the local risk isn’t what worries him. His greater concern is that the world remains unprepared for the next pandemic.
Dr. Scott McClelland, a Seattle-based hiker and specialist in infectious diseases at UW Medicine, says backpackers’ risk of contracting hantavirus is extremely low. McClelland is a Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology.
The diets we eat today have less nutritional density than what our grandparents ate. DGH professor Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.
Plants need carbon dioxide to grow - but a new study finds that too much carbon dioxide makes essential crops less nutritious. DGH professor Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.
As the world watches that Dutch cruise ship facing a hantavirus outbreak, we have very little reason to worry about a breakout here. Dr. Scott McClelland, professor of medicine, of global health, and of epidemiology at the UW, is interviewed.
Many staple crops, including wheat, potatoes, and beans, are steadily growing less nutritious - and increased carbon dioxide pollution may be to blame. DGH faculty Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.
A new UW course, called “Global Perspectives on Local Health Issues: Glocal Health”, responds to a current movement in rethinking global health, and applications of global health efforts to local scales in Washington and the United States. DGH faculty member Dr. Kata Mucha is quoted.
In a recent interview with the NIH Fogarty International Center, DGH faculty member Dr. Joe Zunt talked about his thirty years of global health research and field work and had some words of wisdom for students who want to become global health researchers.
It has been over a hundred years since the first tuberculosis vaccine was invented, and yet tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease. That is now poised to change. There are several new TB vaccines now in phase III clinical trials and the world is closer than ever to a breakthrough that could save 8.5 million lives by 2050. Yet questions remain regarding how well the new vaccines will be accepted b