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The following are selected articles about Department of Global Health activities:
Featured Articles
Newslinks (Compiled by UW Health Sciences News & Community Relations)
December 2008
New Books with Seattle-Area Ties
Dean Marla Salmon, School of Nursing, "Nurse: A World of Care"
Seattle Times, December 29, 2008
Independent Audit of Global Child Immunizations Urged
Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation (IHME) study referenced
U.S. News & World Report, December 17, 2008.
IHME study published in The Lancet was picked up Dec. 12, 2008 by several media outlets, including CBS News, The New York Times, Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC. Coverage in USA Today, Seattle Times, Reuters.
UW-WSU Collaboration on Animal-Human Health Breaks New Ground
University Week, December 4, 2008
November 2008
Bailouts Create Health Pandemic
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 24, 2008
Authors Dr. Scott Barnhart, Medicine, School of Public Health & Community Medicine; Dr. Amy Hagopian, Health Services, School of Public Health & Community Medicine
October 2008
Background material on three-day regional global health conference sponsored by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce (Oct. 22-24), go to the Washington Global Health Alliance website.
Dean Provides Insight for Nursing School; Dean Marla Salmon
UW Daily, October 29, 2008
Seattle Needs to Stick to its Vision for Global Health, Recession or Not, says Sen. Murray
Xconomy, October 24, 2008
UW’s Mark Emmert, Judy Wasserheit
Antiretroviral Treatment Should Start Earlier, Study Says
Associated Press/Reuters/USA Today, October 27, 2008
Principal Investigator UW’s Mari Kitahata, MD, MPH
Leaders See Global Health as Hot Field
Seattle Times, October 23, 2008
Global Health Seen as Big Business for Seattle
Seattle PI, October 23, 2008
UW Researchers Receive Gates Foundation Explorations Grants
University Week, October, 23, 2008
Seattle Times, October 22, 2008
Seattle PI, October 22, 2008
UW Researcher Gets Gates Grant to Test HIV Cure
Seattle Times, October 22, 2008
Gates Foundation Awards $10 million in Grants for 'Crazy' Ideas
Seattle PI, Octobber 22, 2008
Walker-Ames Lecture Looks at Media Coverage of Iraqi Deaths
University Week, October 9, 2008
Les Roberts, professor of public health at Columbia University, will critique media reporting of Iraqi death statistics at the Walker-Ames Lecture Oct. 22.
September 2008
Gates Foundation Among Donors to Worldwide Malaria-Eradication Plan (PATH, SBRI)
Seattle Times, September 26, 2008
August 2008
International Health Opportunities Program Alumna and Global HealthPathway Student Receives Award
Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2008
American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation awarded the Arthur N. Wilson, MD Scholarship to UW medical student Jodie Totten, who grew up in Sitka, Alaska. This scholarship annually supports a medical student who graduated from a high school in southeast Alaska and who has consistently received academic honors.
Pharmacy Student Receives Fellowship to Target Uganda's Health
University Week, August 21, 2008
School of Pharmacy Ph.D. candidate Joseph Babigumira recently got a boost in his effort to improve the reproductive health of women and girls in his native country of Uganda. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Institute of International Education (IIE) granted him a $40,000 dissertation fellowship.
Sherr Wins Young Investigator Award for HIV/AIDS Work
University Week, August 21, 2008
Kenneth Sherr, UW clinical assistant professor in global health working at Health Alliance International , was one of five scientists worldwide honored with a Young Investigator Award at the 2008 Global AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August.
Extraordinary Response to Global Health Request for Proposals
University Week, August 21, 2008
In response to a campuswide invitation for concept proposals for interdisciplinary global health initiatives and centers, the Department of Global Health received an impressive 41 proposals from faculty representing all 17 UW colleges and schools.
Mom, Daughter Lead Kenyan Village in AIDS Recovery
Associated Press, August 17, 2008
Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi, a UW graduate student now working on her Master's in Public Administration at UW, was featured for her work with the Rabour Village Project. "The work touches more than 10,000 people in 10 villages and keeps growing."
Genital Herpes Treatment Does Not Prevent HIV
Reuters, August 11, 2008, International Clinical Research Center trials referenced
Long-term treatment of genital herpes with the drug acyclovir does not reduce the rate of new HIV infections, researchers reported at the International AIDS Conference here last week.
Not Many Speak Their Mind to Gates Foundation
The Seattle Times, August 3, 2008, UW Prof. Steve Gloyd is quoted
As with all good parodies, there's a grain of truth in a fake news story on the Web that says Bill Gates could face another antitrust investigation — this time for "monopolistic charity practices."
July 2008
UW Professors Coordinate NGO Code of Conduct
University Week, July 24, 2008
Health Alliance International coordinated a world-wide code to create a NGO code of conduct to focus on strengthening health systems.
Center for AIDS Research Receives $16.5m
University Week July 24, 2008
One of the first AIDS research centers in the country has been awarded $16.5 million for the next five years to continue its trailblazing work in providing a cost-effective infrastructure for HIV/AIDS researchers.
June 2008
NGO Code of Conduct Hopes to Stem Internal Brain Drain
The Lancet, June 28, 2008
Health Alliance International coordinated efforts to create an international NGO Code of Conduct to bolster the public sector in the countries which they operate.
UW Global Health Department Celebrates its First Graduates
UW Daily June 23, 2008
"In HIV, we’re losing the battle," said Dr. Tadataka Yamada, president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who gave the graduation address June 11. "The solution here is you. The future depends on creativity and independent thinking."
Recipients Chosen for New Fellowship in Global Health
UW School of Public Health & Medicine, June 19, 2008
Eight outstanding University of Washington students from a variety of disciplines are the first recipients of the Thomas Francis Jr., Global Health Fund Endowed Student Fellowship.
Global Health Redefines 'Collaboration'
University Week, June 5, 2008 Also available as a [PDF]
The UW Department of Global Health is stretching the boundaries of academia and redefining what "interdisciplinary collaboration" means. And, it's inviting every academic discipline to be involved in helping to improve the world's health.
Improving Health Through Education, Service & Research
University Week, June 5, 2008
The Department of Global Health is building an infrastructure of interdisciplinary programs through programs that bridge across education, research and service," said Dr. King Holmes, the William H. Foege endowed chair of the Department of Global Health.
May 2008
Reauthorize our Pledge to Fight AIDS (Opinion)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 29, 2008
Drs. Wendy Johnson and Jennifer Kasper with Health Alliance International on the desperate need to continue the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding. "PEPFAR is one of the few positive faces of the U.S. in the world and arguably the United States' most effective foreign policy in the past seven years."
Proposed Global Health Minor looking for Students
UW Daily, May 21, 2008
Undergraduate students met with Department of Global Health faculty and staff to discuss a prospective minor in global health. "If things run smoothly, the minor could be available by 2009."
April 2008
UW Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation Conference a Success
About 300 public health officials and researchers from around the world gathered April 10-11 for a two-day conference aimed at improving methods for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating global health data, including information on HIV/AIDS. For more on the story, see coverage in Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS report, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
March 2008
UW Researchers Say Comprehensive Sex Ed Cuts Pregnancies
The Seattle Times, March 20, 2008
Pamela Kohler, Lisa Manhart, and Bill Lafferty analyzed results of a national survey and found that adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education are half as likely to become pregnant.
February 2008
Roy Colven: To Africa and Back, Battling AIDS.
University Week,February 14, 2008
Article on University of Washington physician with expertise in HIV-related skin disorders and teledermatology.
January 2008
MHA Student Named One of CNN's Heroes
CNN, January 30, 2008
Peter Kithene, a first year student in the Master of Health Administration program, has been named one of six CNN Heroes. Kithene founded the Mama Maria health clinic, which provides medical care and HIV/AIDS education to the rural village in Kenya where he was raised. View an interview with Peter on the CNN website.
Press Contacts
Bobbi Nodell
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Department of Global Health
University of Washington
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University of Washington
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School of Public Health and Community Medicine
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