August 21, 2017 | Health News
MD Magazine: 3.2 Million COPD Deaths Worldwide in 2015
By Matt Hoffman
October 07, 2016 | Health News
The Atlantic: How Back Pain Took Over the World
By Olga Khazan
The newest iteration of the Global Burden of Disease study, which tracks the prevalence of deaths and diseases worldwide, contains some good news: On average people are living about a decade longer than they were in 1980. But there’s a catch: Health hasn’t improved as fast as life expectancy overall, which means that for many, those long, final years are spent hobbled by illness and disability.
Professor Theo Vos is quoted.
October 06, 2016 | Health News
Humanosphere: A New Way to Measure Progress in Global Health
By Sean McKee, special to Humanosphere
The world has made tremendous progress in global health during the past 25 years, reducing the impact of some major killers like HIV or, well, childbirth, and greatly expanding access to drugs or vaccines to prevent and treat many millions of the poorest people on the planet.
But sustaining that rate of progress is likely to get a lot harder. And measuring success, or failure for that matter, is likely to get more important.
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.
January 29, 2016 | Health News
NPR: Why You Shouldn't Be Totally Depressed By A Report On Child Mortality
Every year, millions of kids and teenagers die around the world, often from preventable and treatable conditions. It is a troubling statistic. But if you look beneath the surface numbers, you'll find signs of hope, says Theo Vos, a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
November 18, 2015 | Department News
DCPN: Taxes and Vaccinations are Most Cost Effective Interventions against Cancer
SEATTLE, Washington – The latest Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition (DCP3) volume on cancer, available today, gathers essential information on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, feasibility and affordability of a range of interventions to provide evidence-based guidance to decision makers worldwide. It is available online now at www.dcp-3.org/cancer and through the World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository.
July 15, 2015 | Health News
New York Times: Labor Scrutiny for FIFA as a World Cup Rises in the Qatar Desert
By Barry Meier
When a law firm hired by Qatar, the site of the 2022 World Cup, issued a report last year urging reforms in the treatment of migrant construction workers there, human rights groups expected the tiny oil-rich Persian Gulf nation to respond quickly.