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September 22, 2026

Register for Rising Stars: Early-Career Investigators Shaping Global Health on November 3rd

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Rising Stars: Early-Career Investigators Shaping Global Health (Virtual Panel)

Tuesday, November 3rd
8:30-10:00 AM PST via Zoom
Click here to view the flyer and access the Zoom meeting link.

Join the UW Department of Global Health’s Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents , and Children (Global WACh) and Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study for an engaging panel discussion featuring Rising Star Award recipients and promising early career investigators.

Designed to accelerate the careers of early career investigators, the Rising Star Award program provides mentorship, institutional support, and seed funding to help participants generate impactful research, build collaborations, and compete successfully for future funding. Hear directly from Rising Stars as they share how the program has influenced their career paths, expanded their research opportunities, and advanced their work in global health.

Learn more at https://bit.ly/dghrisingstar. For questions, please contact gwach@uw.edu.

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September 17, 2026

Researchers receive award to design mHealth intervention to support adolescents transition to adult HIV care

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We are pleased to announce a new NIH-funded grant titled, “iTake Charge: Development and evaluation of an m-Health transition intervention for youth living with HIV in Kenya,” led by Multiple Principal Investigators Dr. Kristin Beima-Sofie (Senior Research Scientist, Global WACh), and Emory University faculty, Dr. Irene Njuguna (also Global WACh Advisor, Partnership and Collaboration) and Dr. Brian Zanoni.

The study addresses challenges among adolescents with HIV who are transitioning from pediatric to adult-centered care. They often experience high rates of mortality, virologic failure, and loss to follow up. Mobile health interventions (mHealth) offer great promise in improving the transition process and optimizing retention in care and viral suppression. (more…)

Global Cardiovascular Health Pilot Award funds new Global WACh and Pediatrics collaboration to improve newborn health in Ghana

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This year’s Global Cardiovascular Health Program Interdisciplinary Team Science Pilot Grant is funding an exciting collaboration between Global WACh, UW Pediatrics, and the University of Development Studies and Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale, Ghana.

Drs. Nelangi Pinto (Professor, Pediatrics-Cardiology) and Kristin Beima Sofie (Senior Research Scientist, Global WACh) are Principal Investigators of “Pilot Implementation of Newborn Pulse Oximetry Screening to Improve Early Detection of Congenital Heart Disease in Resource Constrained Facilities in Northern Ghana.” (more…)

March 4, 2026

RISE meets in Kenya to launch HIV/ART exposure on child neurodevelopment research

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RISE collaborators from multiple research institutes met in Nairobi, Kenya.


From February 2nd-4th, collaborators affiliated with “Researching Interventions and Implementation Strategies to Evaluate the Health and Development of Children Affected by HIV (RISE)” met in Nairobi, Kenya for its official launch meeting.

It was an exciting time for collaborators to meet in-person, understand the program goals and individual responsibilities, and participate in meaningful scientific discussions. Collaborators left this short, but impactful meeting motivated, engaged, and focused. (more…)

Research Scientist Dieudonne Hakizimana receives award to improve infant health outcomes in Ethiopia

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Congratulations to Dieudonne Hakizimana, Global WACh Research Scientist and PhD Candidate in the UW Department of Global Health, and collaborators of Strengthening Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE) for receiving a UW Global Innovation Fund Award for “Assessing post-trial sustainment of a faith leader–led initiative to improve newborn and infant health in Ethiopia and identifying factors influencing sustainment to inform scale-up and long-term planning.”

This award will support a rigorous post-trial assessment of SCOPE’s LAUNCH (Leading Advancements for the Uptake of Newborn and Community Health) intervention that paired Ethiopian Orthodox priests with community health workers (CHWs) to deliver newborn and infant health education to families.

The trial explored how linking religious leaders with front-line health workers may catalyze and empower local communities to improve health outcomes for newborns. Read the LAUNCH protocol paper published in September 2024. (more…)

February 18, 2026

Global WACh Rising Star adolescent smoking research awarded at the Paediatric Society of Ghana Annual General and Scientific Meeting

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Dr. Kingsley Hattoh, a doctor and researcher affiliated with the Tamale Teaching Hospital 

Congratulations to Global WACh Rising Star (2023-2024) Dr. Rafiuk Cosmos Yakubu and Dr. Kingsley Hattoh with the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, for sharing outstanding research linked to the Global WACh-funded study, “Association of Inhaled-Substance Use and Respiratory Problems in Adolescents in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana” at the annual Paediatric Society of Ghana Annual General and Scientific Meeting held from February 5th-7th.

Dr. Hattoh was named winner of Best Abstract (Poster Category). (more…)

February 17, 2026

Dr. Kirk Tickell receives award to contribute to Kenyan national surveillance of highly drug-resistant organisms

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Congratulations to Dr. Kirk Tickell, Research Assistant Professor in Global Health, for receiving a UW Royalty Research Award for “Epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli from children being discharged from referral hospitals in Kenya.”  Over a 12-month span, this study aims to contribute to the Kenyan national surveillance of emerging highly drug-resistant organisms. (more…)

December 5, 2025

Researchers receive major grant to study impact of HIV/ART exposure on child neurodevelopment

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Multiple Principal Investigators Grace John-Stewart, Dalton Wamalwa, Kathleen Powis, and Andrew Prendergast leading the newly awarded U19 RISE Project

An international research team with Global WACh and partners in the U.S., Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana received a five-year long $36 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health to better understand how HIV or antiretroviral (ART) exposure in utero influences child health outcomes, including neurodevelopment.

“Researching Interventions and Implementation Strategies to Evaluate the Health and Development of Children Affected by HIV (RISE)” is a large NIH-funded U19 Program to evaluate tools for screening children for neurodevelopmental delays and to identify interventions to optimize neurodevelopment among children with and without in utero HIV/ART exposure.

The RISE Program includes three distinct research Projects and three Cores that provide shared resources, focusing on scientific administrative support, data management and analysis, and dissemination and stakeholder engagement, to facilitate the Projects.
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December 4, 2025

Dr. Keshet Ronen receives award to assess inclusion in digital community health services in Kenya

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Congratulations to Dr. Keshet Ronen, Assistant Professor in Global Health, for receiving funding for “Empowering Women through Digital Connectivity: Advancing Community Health in Kenya” that leverages the ongoing CHV-NEO (Community-based digital communication to support neonatal health) trial activities.

CHV-NEO uses text messaging, integrated into Kenya’s national electronic community health information system (eCHIS),  to remotely connect mothers of newborns with community health workers for enhanced care during the high-risk neonatal period. CHV-NEO has the potential to reduce neonatal mortality and improve coverage of community-based perinatal preventative care in medically underserved communities in Kenya. (more…)

December 2, 2025

Global WACh Co-Director Anjuli Wagner nominated for the 2025 UW Minority Faculty Mentoring Award

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Congratulations to Dr. Anjuli Wagner, Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Global WACh Co-Director, for being nominated for the UW School of Medicine’s Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement (CMFA) Minority Faculty Mentoring Award.

This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to mentoring faculty from communities underrepresented in medicine and science. Its purpose is to celebrate someone who fosters inclusive professional growth and improves diversity, equity, and representation within the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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