Talks and Events
March 6, 2020
Save the Date for Global WACh’s Next Big Thing
Categories: Talks and Events
UPDATE ON MARCH 20: The University of Washington is working closely with public health officials to monitor evolving recommendations for holding events during the COVID-19 outbreak. To prioritize the health and safety of our research community, Global WACh has decided to postpone this event.
Mark your calendars for Global WACh’s Next Big Thing: Saving children’s lives through accelerating research into policy and practice
Date: Monday, June 1, 2020
Time: 4-6 PM
Location: University of Washington Husky Union Building (map)
Please join the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) at our annual year-end celebration where we highlight the achievements of the Center over the past year in research, training, and service.
The Gut Health and Child Survival scientific priority area of Global WACh is committed to reducing child mortality by targeting enteric infections and diarrheal diseases. During the 2020 Global WACh year-end event, members of this priority area and guest experts will share cutting edge research informing and testing interventions and strategies for moving research into policy and practice quickly. Keynote speakers include Dr. Farah Qamar (Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University) and Dr. Nigel Rollins (Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health World Health Organization).
The event will include a reception to showcase capstone projects by our graduating class of Global WACh Certificate students to date. The reception will be an excellent opportunity for networking with WACh researchers and community members over refreshments.
November 15, 2016
Gut Health and Child Survival at ASTMH
Categories: Research, Talks and Events
Tags: antibiotic resistance, bacterial diseases, gut health, Kenya, Pediatrics
This week, members of our enteric research team are in Atlanta, Georgia for the 65th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). They join approximately 4,400 other researchers, government and public health officials, practicing physicians, students, and all health care providers working in the fields of tropical medicine, hygiene, and global health.
Our Healthy Growth and Development Core is dedicated to optimizing care in young children at high risk of diarrhea-associated mortality and the ASTMH annual meeting provides our team with a unique opportunity to discuss recent findings, build inspiration for our next big projects, and re-energize our commitment to reducing the worldwide burden of tropical infectious diseases to improve health around the world.
Yesterday ASTMH heard from Rebecca Brander on correlations of drug resistance in Kenyan children with acute bacterial diarrhea. Rebecca is a MPH student at the University of Washington and completed this research in collaboration with Global WACh directors Grace John-Stewart, Patty Pavlinac, and Judd Walson. Patty Pavlinac, our Health Growth and Development director, leads the Global WACh representation at the conference.
Rebecca’s study “Host and Environmental Correlates of Multi-Drug Resistance in Kenyan Children with Acute Bacterial Diarrhea” is a key area of research for addressing the prevalence in which bacterial diarrhea results in significant morbidity and mortality in children in sub-Saharan Africa. Antibiotic treatment can be a life-saving intervention, but the antibiotic resistance has rapidly emerged in this population of children, and now this intervention’s efficacy is limited. The study’s data pinpoints risk factors for antibiotic resistance in enteric pathogens, in order to inform diarrhea management recommendations and control resistance.
Click to read the entire study.
September 30, 2016
Breakfast with WACh welcomes Drs. Ghayda Mirzaa and Kristina Adams Waldorf
Categories: Research, Talks and Events
Tags: Breakfast with WACh, maternal health, Zika
Join us for breakfast and a lecture on Tuesday, October 11th with Drs. Ghayda Mirzaa, MD, FAAP, FACMG and Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD.
The Zika Epidemic: An Unprecedented Health Threat for Pregnant Women
October 11th, 9-10 AM
University of Washington, Harris Hydraulics Laboratory, Large Conference Room
August 8, 2016
Success for CATCH at Nairobi Innovation Week
Categories: Research, Talks and Events
Tags: CATCH, HIV, Pediatrics
Last week at Nairobi Innovation Week, members of the CATCH study team spent three days showcasing their innovative visions for pediatric HIV care. This was an important opportunity for the team to highlight the successes and findings of CATCH: Counseling and Testing for Children at Home.
The CATCH study accomplishes what’s in its name by “catching” children ages 12 and under who have fallen through the cracks in HIV diagnosis systems. CATCH offers parents infected with HIV the opportunity to have their children tested, both in clinics or in the home. HIV-infected children are then linked to an HIV care clinic of choice, which ensures that children can receive much needed care. CATCH has been working and gathering data since the start of 2014, with funding for seven different sites in Nairobi and one in Western Kenya.
Throughout the three-day event, CATCH presented posters, modeled pediatric test kits, and engaged visitors with their approaches and ideas about HIV testing in children. “There was a great amount of enthusiasm for the translation of research findings into policy, particularly from senior University of Nairobi visitors and local media,” said Anjuli Wagner, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Global Health and member of the study team.
Each day, members from the CATCH team, including Anjuli Wagner, Cyrus Mugo, and Verlinda Otieno spoke with over 40 individuals interested in continuing to be part of the discussion about CATCH’s work. The team also visited with nearby stands and discovered valuable new connections with other pediatric health advocates.
We’re sending CATCH our congratulations for their engagement and innovation in Nairobi!
For more information about CATCH, take a look at this animated depiction of the project.
May 31, 2016
The Next Big thing: Adolescent Health
Categories: students, Talks and Events
Tags: adolescent health
You’re invited to our end of year celebration showcasing the achievements of Global WACh students, faculty, grantees, and scholars around the world.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bruder Stapleton, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics
Other Speakers include Drs. Minnie Kibore, Meghan Moreno, Pamela Kohler and Anthony Roche.
Thursday, June 2nd 2016
Foege Auditorium, University of Washington
3720 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
May 5, 2016
Current Topics and Methods in Microbiome Research Workshop
Categories: Research, Talks and Events
Tags: microbiome, nutrition
Event Date & Time
May 26, 2016 – 8:30am to 5:00pm
Check-in begins at 8am. The workshop starts at 8:30 and continues until 5pm.
Location
Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Westlake Conference Room
West 8th Building (2001 8th Ave), Seattle, WA
Goal: The goal of the workshop is to share ongoing microbiome research being conducted by the University of Washington and partnering institutions and in doing so, to identify synergies and shared interests to strengthen research and build new collaborations.
Speakers from the University of British Columbia, the Forsyth Institute, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Children’s Hospital, and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation will present short talks and engage in panel discussions on topics including:
- The gut microbiome and its role in enteric health and disease
- The oral microbiome and its role in oral health and disease
- The genital microbiome and its role in sexual and reproductive health
- Statistical methods for microbiome data
- Research priorities for women, adolescents, and children: thinking across the host microbiome
May 2, 2016
Preparing for an Emerging Zika Virus Epidemic
Categories: Research, Talks and Events
Tags: Panel Discussion, Zika Virus
Join us for an expert panel drawn from public health, medicine, and bioengineering to discuss what we know, what we don’t know, and how to prepare
The University of Washington Global Center for the Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh) is pleased to host an expert panel discussion to disseminate up-to-date information about Zika virus, its public health impact locally and globally, and what the general public and health care professionals need to know about preventing infection and minimizing the risk of birth defects due to Zika virus infection in pregnancy.
Event Details
Friday, May 6, 2016
3:00-5:00PM
Hogness Auditorium
Health Sciences Building, UW Medical Center (more…)
March 7, 2016
Breakfast with WACh with Mark J. Manary
Categories: Talks and Events
Tags: Breakfast with WACh, nutrition
Join us for breakfast and a lecture sponsored by the CFAR Enterics Study Team and Global WACh on Wednesday and Thursday March 9th .
“The future of food and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Dr. Mark J. Manary
Washington University School of Medicine
Wednesday, March 9th, 9:00-10:00AM
Ninth and Jefferson Building, Room 1360
Harborview Medical Center
Watch the full talk on Global WACh’s YouTube.
January 7, 2016
Breakfast with WACh with Dr. Christy McKinney
Categories: Talks and Events
Tags: Breakfast with WACh, breastfeeding, neonatal health
Christy McKinney PhD, MPH joined Global WACh as part of our lecture series with an exciting presentation on The NIFTY™ Cup: A Neonatal Intuitive Feeding Technology for Infants who have Difficulty Breastfeeding in Low-Resource Settings.
Dr. McKinney is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Health Sciences and the Academic Research Coach for the Division of Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. She received her MPH from Tulane University in 2002 and her PhD from the University of Washington in 2006, both in epidemiology. She is the recipient of an NIH Institute for Translational Health Sciences KL2 career development award, which she completed in 2014.
Her research areas include the etiology of oral clefts, feeding infants with breastfeeding difficulties, bisphenol A in dental materials, and the application of research methods in clinical contexts. She is the recipient of an NIH R01 to conduct a prospective cohort study to examine the extent to which children are exposed to bisphenol A during dental treatment.
She is co-Principal Investigator of a recently awarded Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenges grant award that involves evaluating the Neonatal Intuitive Feeding Technology (NIFTY™) cup in Ethiopia. In her role as Academic Research Coach she provides research methods and implementation guidance to over 30 faculty and 30 different research projects.
December 9, 2015
Breakfast with WACh with Dr. Assaye Nigussie
Categories: Talks and Events
Tags: Breakfast with WACh, maternal health, neonatal health
For this Breakfast with WACh lecture we welcomed Dr. Assaye Kassie Nigussie, Deputy Director, Country Implementation, Newborn & Child Health at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Nigussie, an Ethiopian national, is a Medical Doctor and a qualified Pediatrician from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Nigussie has over 20 years of experience in Pediatric Medicine and Neonatology, initially as a clinical instructor, practicing physician and Newborn and Child health researcher, and later as program manager for health programs focusing on Maternal, Neonatal, Child health and health systems. He brings both specific newborn expertise and a wealth of program implementation experiences across the MNCH continuum. He is currently working at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the Deputy Director of Country Implementation on the MNCH team.
View Dr. Nigussie’s entire presentation on Evidence-Based Strategy Planning for MNCH: Country Experience.
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