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History of the Department
The following documents show how the idea for the Department of Global Health developed:
Global Health Advisory Committee report
[438K PDF*]
School of Public Health and Community Medicine Strategic plan
Medical Student Lorna Shanks at a boys school in
India after giving a presentation on HIV/AIDS.
A family in Namibia, one of the many countries
where UW works to improve global health.
