Health
May 12, 2020
Celebrating Global WACh Certificate nursing students on International Nurses Day
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.
November 21, 2019
Certificate Student Fall Spotlight: Junyi Zhang
Categories: Certificate Program, Health
Last summer, Junyi Zhang, second-year MPH in Health Services and Global WACh Certificate student, studied abroad in Kampala, Uganda and started her Certificate capstone project. The UW Uganda Study Abroad Program, co-directed by Drs. Amy Hagopian and Bert Stover of the Department of Health Services, brought Junyi and eight students to Uganda to study the relationship between water and health-based at a partner institution, Makerere University.
The four-week program included field trips to public water treatment facilities, bottling plants, farms, clinics and hospitals, family homes, and other places where people interact with water. (more…)
October 4, 2017
Study to make HIV testing informational videos and use saliva-based HIV testing in children launched in Kenya
Categories: Children, Health, HIV, Research
Tags: HIV
Most people assume HIV testing involves blood. While blood is the most commonly used, saliva is an alternative specimen to test and diagnose HIV in adults and adolescents. Benefits of saliva-based testing include the ease of collecting samples and increased acceptability of HIV testing. One example of a saliva-based test is OraQuick, a device used to collect and rapidly test saliva. (more…)