Lectures
Global WACh is delighted to host lectures featuring scholars and researchers of interest to lecture on women, adolescent, and child health topics. View our collection of recorded lectures with permission from the speakers.
2025
Dr. Dickens Onyango, MS, PhD
Deputy Director of Medical Services
Kisumu County Health Department, Kenya
2024
Dr. Monica Oxford, MSW, PhD
Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Mental Health Research
Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing
University of Washington
Measuring executive function in preschoolers – Is a single assessment sufficient?
Dr. Michael Willoughby, PhD
Senior Fellow
RTI International
Dr. Sarah Benki-Nugent, MS, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine – Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division
University of Washington
Lessons Learned from My Excellent Adventures in Global Implementation Science
Dr. Nadia Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed
Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Director, Global Pediatrics Program
University of Minnesota Medical School
Dr. Eleanor Namusoke Magongo, MD, MBChB, MMed
Team Lead, Paediatrics & Adolescent HIV Care and Treatment Program
Ministry of Health Uganda
Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Rising Star Award Recipients of 2022-2023
Dr. Md. Taufiqul Islam, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Scientist Mucosal Immunology and Vaccinology Unit International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Billy Ogwel, MSc
Data Analyst/Manager, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Center for Global Health Research (KEMRI-CGHR)
Maribel Paredes Olórtegui, MPH
Biologist, Unidad de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Asociación Benéfica PRISMA
2023
Book Talk – “Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer”
Dr. Linda Eckert, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health
Associate Director, Global WACh Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Washington
Suicial Behavior in Pregnant Adolescent Girls in Ghana
Dr. Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, PhD, MPhil
Global WACh Rising Star Award Recipient 2022
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
University of Ghana
Unlocking potential: Measuring and Optimizing Child Neurodevelopment in Kenya
Dr. Megan Song McHenry, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health
Indiana University School of Medicine
Dr. Ednah Ojee, MBChB, MMed
Global WACh Rising Star Award Recipient 2022
Consultant Paediatrician and Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
University of Nairobi
Sushma Kallam
Co-Founder of Rural Health Link, Inc.
Dr. Susie Ramisetty-Mikler, PhD, MPH
Research Associate Professor
Department of Population Health Sciences and Epidemiology
Georgia State University School of Public Health
Virtual Book Event: “Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic: A Public Health Story”
Dr. Kevin M. De Cock
Former Director of the WHO Department of HIV/AIDS, CDC Center for Global Health, and CDC’s Country Mission in Kenya
Dr. Harold W. Jaffe
Former CDC Associate Director for Science, and Head of Public Health at University of Oxford
Dr. James W. Curran
Emeritus Dean at Emory Rollins School of Public Health, and Head of the 1981 CDC Task Force for investigating the first cases of AIDS
2022
Policy implementation understood as multiple fields of strategic action
Dr. Jodi Sanfort, MSW, PhD
Dean and Professor of the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
University of Washington
Research in Public Health as a Core Function of the Kenya National Public Health Institute
Dr. Sultani Hadley Matendechero, ‘ndc'(K)
Head of the Kenya National Public Health Institute
The Role of Public Health Institutes in Elimination and Sustainable Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Dr. Sultani Hadley Matendechero, ‘ndc'(K)
Head of the Kenya National Public Health Institute
2021
A Personal Journey to Understand the Intersection of Nutrition and Infection to Improve Global Health
Dr. Parmi Suchdev, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Emory Global Health Institute
Director, Global Health Office of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics and Global Health
Emory University
Hot topics in enteric disease epidemiology: From diagnostics to interventions
Dr. James Platts-Mills MD
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health,
School of Medicine, University of Virginia
Dr. Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Emory University
2019
Beyond the provision of services: Overlooked aspects of water and sanitation
Dr. Heather Murphy, PEng, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health
Director, Water, Health and Applied Microbiology Lab (WHAM-Lab)
Temple University
Best practices in understanding and interpreting cost data for designing planning and evaluating HIV and TB interventions: The Global Health Cost Consortium (GHCC) Reference Case and Unit Cost Study Repository
Dr. Carol Levin, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Global Health
Project Director, GHCC
University of Washington
Succession, susceptibility and immunity: The gut microbiome and Vibrio cholera infection
Dr. Ana Weil, MD, MPH
Physician Scientist, Division of Infectious Diseases
Massachusetts General Hospital
Virtual reality technology to improve newborn health delivery in low and middle income countries
Dr. Rachel Umoren, MB.ChB, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrician, UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital
University of Washington
2018
Interpretable Machine Learning with the CHAIN Network Data
Dr. Sergey Feldman, PhD
Machine Learning Specialist, Data Cowboys
Allies in Maternal and Child Health: Strengthening Services through Maternal Immunizations
Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen, MD, M.Ed, MSc
Global Head of the Maternal Immunization Program with
Jerker Liljestrand, MD
Interim Deputy Director of the Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Program Strategy Team
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enteric Infections in Children from Low-Income Settings – Insights from the Application of Quantitative Molecular Diagnostics
Dr. James Platts-Mills, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Violence Against Women in the Context of SRHR: Understanding the Evidence
Dr. Avni Amin, PhD
Department of Reproductive Health and Research
World Health Organization
Get to Know Dr. Barbara Goff, MD
New Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Washington
2017
Global ORS/zinc coverage and evolving strategies for addressing residual diarrheal mortality among children under-five in the SDG era (PDF Slide Deck)
Dr. Laura Lamberti, PhD, MHS
University of Washington
2016
The Zika Epidemic: An Unprecedented Health Threat for Pregnant Women (UW NetID login required)
Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology with
Dr. Ghayda Mirzaa, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics
University of Washington
2015
Evidence Based Planning for MNCH
Dr. Assaye Kassie Nigussie, MD
Deputy Director of County Implementation, Newborn & Child Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Simon Hay, BSc, DPhil, DSc
Professor, Department of Global Health
Director, Geospatial Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics Sciences
University of Washington
Adolescent and Sexual Reproductive Health
Dr. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, MBBS, MSc
Scientist, Department of Reproductive Health and Research
World Health Organization