Global Health

We are proud to have committed faculty and residents who are contributing to the field of global health in meaningful ways. Our division has several faculty members with ongoing global health and international emergency medicine interests. Our mission is to provide our residents and students with the skills necessary to contribute to humanitarian and global health projects, and to provide mentorship and guidance to help them develop their own interests and careers in global health. 

We are committed to capacity building in low resource settings and humanitarian disaster response, improving leadership in the field of global health, and development of health metrics and evaluation programs.  Our faculty are actively contributing to research and critical evaluation of global health interventions, and creating a curriculum to prepare our residents to effectively deliver care in disaster and low resource settings.

OUR FACULTY AND RESIDENTS

Faculty:

Herbie Duber, MD

Sachita Shah, MD

Stephen Morris, MD

David Townes, MD

Residents:

Anastasia Grivoyannis, MD

Jodie Totten, MD

LINKS TO MORE

There are a number of organizations with which our faculty and residents are engaged, please see their websites for further information.

NGOs and organizations of interest

• Partners in Health
• International Medical Corps
• Doctors With Out Borders
• Global Emergency Care
• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
• Health Metrics and Evaluation
• Remote Medical International

Web Resources for Global Health

• Center for Disease Control
• Global Health Council
• UW Department of Global Health
• World Health Organization

RECOMMENDED READING

Think you’re interested in global health, disaster response or international emergency medicine?  Check out these core curriculum books and journal articles...

Books

• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• The Bottom Billion:  Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
• The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
• The White Man's Burden by William Easterly

Articles

• "International emergency medicine:  a review of the literature from 2010"  Aschkenasy M, Arnold K, Foran M, Lippert S, Schroeder ED, Bertsch K, Levine AC; International Emergency Medicine Literature Review Group.
• "Nurse-administered ketamine sedation in an emergency department in rural Uganda" by Mark Bisanzo, MD, et al.

Newsletters

• Global Health Section Newsletter

UPCOMING EVENTS

UW Department of Global Health Event Calendar