Carey Farquhar
Carey Farquhar Office of Global Affairs Global Innovation Fund
May 16, 2025 | Department News

Dr. Carey Farquhar Receives Global Innovation Fund Award

UW Medicine Newsroom

Dr. Carey Farquhar, professor of medicine (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and global health, has received a Global Innovation Fund Award from the UW Office of Global Affairs. The UW Global Innovation Fund seeds initiatives and programs, developing cross-college and cross-continent collaborations that enhance the University of Washington’s global reach.

Global Innovation Awards Office of Global Affairs faculty
February 18, 2020 | Department News

Seven DGH Faculty Members Win Global Innovation Awards

The University of Washington Global Innovation Fund provides support for programs and initiatives that enhance the university’s global engagement through research partnerships, study abroad programs, faculty exchanges, and more. The fund, administered by the Department of Global Affairs, focuses on interdisciplinary and cross-college collaboration in their projects.

Nepal Studies Initiative Nepal Bioengineering Dhulikhel Hospital Office of Global Affairs
April 19, 2018 | Department News

Quality Healthcare for All Through Partnerships and Innovation: Nepal-UW Symposium

How can mutually beneficial global collaborations help find solutions to real-world problems? What are innovative approaches to sustainable collaborations?

The recent "UW-Nepal Partnerships in Health Innovation: Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Population Health" symposium tackled such questions in panel discussions featuring UW and Kathmandu University faculty from multiple disciplines.

China Steve Gloyd Judith Wasserheit Partnerships Howard Frumkin School of Public Health School of Nursing Department of Radiology Office of Global Affairs China Medical Board
April 15, 2016 | Department News

Boosting Global Health Partnerships for Chinese Universities

China’s role in global health is expanding rapidly due to a confluence of factors, including its role as a major economic force, support from the Chinese Ministry of Health, and growing interest among Chinese university faculty and students.

Global Innovation Funds Office of Global Affairs Jennifer Slyker Sarah Benki-Nugent Paul Drain Judith Wasserheit Jerry Cangelosi Theo Vos Cecilia Breinbauer Marcia Weaver Jane Simoni Deepa Rao Pamela Kohler Annette Fitzpatrick Michael Chung
March 31, 2016 | Department News

Seeding Innovation: Global Health Faculty Get a Boost from Global Innovation Fund

This year’s Global Innovation Fund awardees represent a number of disciplines across 29 schools, colleges and programs. The funds are managed by the Office of Global Affairs, who had to choose from a record 95 applications. Only 26 applications were awarded funds, and of those, eight involve Global Health faculty.

Awardees were selected through a highly competitive process managed that awards seed grants to projects in two areas: a) innovation in study abroad and b) innovation in global engagement and partnerships.