Talks and Events
September 22, 2026
Register for Rising Stars: Early-Career Investigators Shaping Global Health on November 3rd
Categories: Awards, Research, Talks and Events
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.
Register for the Endowed DELV Keynote and Reception on October 15, 2026
Categories: HIV, Talks and Events
Global WACh presents the 5th annual Endowed DELV Lecture and Faculty Exchange in Global Health
“How to improve health for children exposed to HIV in Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe – from clinical trials to implementation and policy”
Thursday, October 15th
Hans Rosling Center Room 155
4:00-5:30 PM PST with reception to follow from 5:30-6:30 PM
RSVP here to receive a calendar invitation and Zoom meeting link.
Download a flyer here.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Multiple Principal Investigators of the Researching Interventions and Strategies to Evaluate the Health and Development of Children Affected by HIV (RISE) Consortium, a multi-country research collaboration among multiple experienced research groups focused on improving outcomes of children HIV-exposed and uninfected in high HIV prevalence settings in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe
February 18, 2026
Global WACh Rising Star adolescent smoking research awarded at the Paediatric Society of Ghana Annual General and Scientific Meeting
Categories: Awards, Conferences, Research, Talks and Events
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…)
November 6, 2025
Global WACh visits Seattle Children’s Hospital for sepsis research lecture and networking
Categories: Gut Health and Child Survival, Research, Talks and Events
On October 23rd, the UW Pediatrics Global Health Collaborative (GHC) invited Global WACh team members to Seattle Children’s Hospital for an engaging morning of knowledge-sharing and networking. We value these interactions with other researchers for opportunities to share our work, find potential collaborators, and stay current within our fields of study.
The hospital’s Provider Grand Round lecture series invited a distinguished pediatric healthcare expert to present their work and future directions to improve childhood health outcomes.
“From Bedside to Bench to Back: Pediatric Sepsis in Resource-Constrained Settings” (Click here to watch)
Dr. Teresa Bleakly Kortz, MD, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in Critical Care Medicine
Director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences Affiliate Program
Director of the Pediatric Global Health Scholars Pathway at the University of California, San Francisco
October 20, 2025
Watch the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella surveillance study results webinar
Categories: Gut Health and Child Survival, Research, Talks and Events
On October 8th, researchers from the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study, conducted across seven countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, presented their findings. This 90-minute webinar featured short presentations from EFGH investigators on key findings and the implications for Shigella vaccines and clinical management.
The Burden, Consequences, and Cost of Shigella Diarrhea in Young Children — and Implications for Shigella Vaccines (Click here to watch)
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale and methods of the EFGH study
- Examine data on Shigella disease burden, antimicrobial resistance, consequences, and cost
- Discuss key design considerations for future Shigella vaccine trials and eventual vaccine introduction
To learn more about EFGH, visit their website.
June 6, 2025
Global WACh Student Poster Symposium Round-Up 2025
Categories: Certificate Program, HIV and Co-Infections, Implementation Science, PrEP, Research, Talks and Events
Attendees viewing student posters.
On Wednesday, June 4th, Global WACh hosted its annual Student Poster Symposium to highlight graduate student research affiliated with our center. Dozens of UW faculty, staff, students attended to learn about 17 students’ projects that fulfilled academic capstone and dissertation requirements, while providing opportunities to gain knowledge and build marketable skillsets in the field of maternal-child health.
The majority of presenters are enrolled in the Global WACh Graduate Certificate Program and are graduating in the 2025 academic year. The certificate program offers opportunities for additional learning about woman, adolescent, and child health topics through 12 credits of coursework and a 90-hour capstone. We wish these students the very best in their future endeavors as public health professionals.
Additional posters featured master and doctoral degree capstones and dissertations that led to major advancements in the scientific field and were featured at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in San Francisco in March. CROI is considered the world’s leading HIV research meeting that attracts thousands of researchers and clinicians from around the globe – and is a fantastic stage to showcase our emerging early-stage researchers.
See a list of featured students and poster titles. View the photo gallery courtesy of the Department of Global Health Communications Team.
Listen to 4th Annual Endowed DELV Lecture by Dr. Nithya Ramanathan, Nexleaf Analytics
Categories: Talks and Events
May 19, 2025
Register for the 4th Annual Endowed DELV Lecture and Faculty Exchange in Global Health
Categories: Talks and Events
Registration is now open! Click here to RSVP.
June 5, 2024
2nd annual Global WACh Student Poster Symposium celebrates student achievements
Categories: Certificate Program, Family Planning, Gut Health and Child Survival, HIV and Co-Infections, Research, students, Talks and Events
Visitors viewing students’ capstone posters.
On May 28th in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, Global WACh hosted its second annual Student Poster Symposium featuring graduate student research aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, adolescents, and children. It was a celebratory end-of-year event to acknowledge students’ training, service, and achievement and give well wishes to those graduating UW.
This year’s symposium featured 14 posters by master’s and doctoral students and a postdoctoral fellow representing several departments and schools – Applied Bioengineering, Epidemiology, Global Health (General and Implementation Science tracks), Nursing, and Social Work.
These included 90-hour capstone projects completed by students enrolled in the Global WACh Graduate Certificate Program, and master’s thesis and PhD dissertation-related posters by student supporting Global WACh’s research portfolio. Three posters were featured at scientific conferences over the academic year and shared with the UW global health community. (more…)
June 3, 2024
Global WACh faculty, staff, students attend a team retreat to build community and advance strategic initiatives
Categories: Family Planning, Gut Health and Child Survival, HIV and Co-Infections, Talks and Events
On May 22nd, Global WACh hosted an all-day team retreat at the UW Waterfront Activities Center. 46 faculty, staff, and student trainees spent the day together with the goals of 1) team building across Global WACh’s scientific priorities, and 2) advancing strategic initiatives for scientific impact, deep work, and expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in our community.
The retreat was part of a larger “Think Week” aimed at protecting time and space for creative thinking to expand innovation to improve the health of women, adolescents, and children. (more…)
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