COVID-19
May 26, 2020
Q&A: New CHAIN Network project to monitor COVID-19 in Kenya and how it will benefit women, adolescent, child health
As the global COVID-19 pandemic spreads, there are increasing numbers of cases in low- and middle-income country settings, including in many African countries. The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network (CHAIN), led by Global WACh Co-Director Dr. Judd Walson, received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to monitor the spread of COVID-19 at sites in Kenya in order to increase understanding of its effects on vulnerable children and adults, healthcare workers, and researchers. This project is a collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme Clinical Information Network (CIN), the University of Oxford and the University of Washington. Click here to learn more about the project in the Department of Global Health News.
The fight against the novel virus has caused major changes in many people’s way of life—some predictable, others still hard to imagine. We asked our CHAIN colleagues in Kenya to share their perspectives on how COVID-19 is affecting their communities and how this new project can benefit vulnerable populations. (more…)
May 22, 2020
Global WACh researchers lend expertise to improve understanding of COVID-19 in pregnancy
Categories: COVID-19
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The global scientific community continues to learn more about the novel coronavirus every day. Global WACh researchers have quickly joined collaborative efforts to learn how COVID-19 impacts pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborns. This post features how they are collecting data relevant to maternal, obstetric, and newborn health outcomes to inform public health responses to COVID-19. Keeping this population in mind during the pandemic now may help prevent health disparities in the future.
May 20, 2020
Dr. Brandon Guthrie co-leads daily COVID-19 scientific literature initiative to support WA State public health response
Categories: COVID-19
As the novel COVID-19 spreads across Washington State, public health professionals are navigating a path out of crises by examining a wealth of COVID-19 related data to support evidence-based decision making throughout the region.
In collaboration with the WA State Department of Health, UW MetaCenter for Pandemic Preparedness and Global Health Security, and the START Center, Dr. Brandon Guthrie (Assistant Professor, Global Health and Epidemiology) is co-leading an initiative to conduct daily scientific literature reviews related to COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Each day, a team of UW graduate students and faculty from the Schools of Public Health and Medicine conduct a systematic search of new information and attempt to highlight new findings that are most relevant to the public health response in a daily report. (more…)
May 12, 2020
Celebrating Global WACh Certificate nursing students on International Nurses Day
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International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale’s birth. The theme for 2020, Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health, demonstrates how nurses are central to addressing a wide range of health challenges. This particularly rings true during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the years, 13 students from the UW School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nurse Practitioner Program (DNP) and PhD in Nursing Science Program have participated in the Global WACh Graduate Certificate Program. Today, we celebrate our students and all nurses for all that they do to provide the care and attention people need, whenever and wherever they need it.
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