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May 26, 2020
Q&A: New CHAIN Network project to monitor COVID-19 in Kenya
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 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.
CHAIN 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.
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
Dr. Keshet Ronen receives funding for local social media-based counseling intervention
Congratulations to Dr. Keshet Ronen, Clinical Assistant Professor in Global Health, and collaborators for receiving additional funding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team for the “Social media support for peripartum adolescents in Seattle” study.
Dr. Ronen will continue developing and piloting a social media group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention—a form of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps patients understand how thoughts and feelings influence behavior—to prevent perinatal depression among adolescents. Read the original award announcement and learn more about the study’s intervention.
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New study will investigate how latent co-infections affect clinical outcomes in HIV-infected Kenyan children
Categories: Awards, Children, HIV and Co-Infections
African children with delayed HIV diagnosis have a high risk of death, and there is an urgent need for novel strategies to improve their care. As HIV treatment expands across Africa, Global WACh researchers seek to understand the complex interplay of infectious diseases and HIV infections, which is pivotal to the development of more effective treatments. Dr. Jennifer Slyker (Associate Professor, Global Health; Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology) is leading a new study funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to investigate how common, asymptomatic co-infections affect clinical outcomes in critically ill HIV-infected Kenyan children during hospitalization. (more…)
Global WACh researchers lend expertise to improve understanding of COVID-19 in pregnancy
Categories: COVID-19
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. (more…)
May 19, 2020
SEEMS-Nutrition estimates costs of early childhood development programs in Malawi
Categories: Children, Nutrition, Research
The Strengthening Economic Evaluation for Multi-sectoral Strategies for Nutrition (SEEMS-Nutrition) project, led by Dr. Carol Levin (Health Economist and Associate Professor, Global Health), has a unique opportunity to collect cost data alongside six on-going interventions and to generate new evidence on costs and cost-effectiveness of multi-sectoral projects in five country settings. Visit this website to learn more about SEEMS-Nutrition.
The project applied its costing evaluation approaches to retrospectively estimate the costs and impact for an integrated agricultural, early childhood development, and school feeding randomized-control trial conducted in Malawi. (more…)
May 18, 2020
View recorded Global WACh research talks at UW
Categories: Gut Health and Child Survival, HIV and Co-Infections, Research, Talks and Events
Over the spring academic quarter at UW, Global WACh investigators and student research assistants shared their work across various presentation platforms across campus. Research span from assessing environmental enteric dysfunction on child health and survival to evaluating risks of depression among HIV-infected adolescent girls, to improved treatment of TB and HIV co-infections.
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.
May 6, 2020
Global WACh Certificate student, Kristen Trivelli, named Husky 100
Categories: Awards, Certificate Program, students
Kristen Trivelli, a recent graduate of the School of Nursing and the Global WACh Graduate Certificate Program, was named a Husky 100! The Husky 100 recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students who are making the most of their time at the UW. Congrats to Kristen and other students across all three UW campuses for their outstanding work and achievements.
View all of the Husky 100 named in 2020 and years prior.
April 28, 2020
Attend the Global WACh Capstone Poster “Zoom-posium” on May 29th
Categories: Certificate Program
Global WACh is hosting a virtual poster session on Friday, May 29th from 10:30 AM-12:15 PM to showcase and celebrate the research achievements and service of graduating students of the Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Child Health (Global WACh Graduate Certificate Program).
Eleven students will be summarizing learning experiences and outcomes of their required 90-hour capstone projects that focus on the health and well-being of women, adolescents, and children. Each student presenter will showcase their posters and answer questions from attendees. Students represent the following Schools and Departments: Global Health, Health Services, Nursing, and Pharmacy.
Event Agenda
10:30-10:35 AM
Welcome remarks and student introductions by Dr. Certificate Director, Dr. Anjuli Wagner and Certificate Manager, Stephanie Edlund-Cho
10:35-10:40 AM
Hannah Atlas, MPH Global Health
Clinical characteristics and health seeking behaviors among high-risk children 2-23 months with acute non-bloody diarrhea presenting to facilities in Western Kenya
10:40-10:45 AM
Edgar Calderon, MPH Global Health
A look at visual materials with IV/VAW prevention messages in Vaupes, Colombia
10:45-10:50 AM
Jean-Jacques Kayembe, MPH Global Health
Reducing Maternal Mortality and Building Health Workers Capacities: Emergency Obstetric & Neonatal Care using PRONTO training program in Lubumbashi, D.R Congo
10:50-11:00 AM
Q&A Session
11:00-11:05 AM
Nina Nganga, MPH Global Health
Flow mapping HIV testing in maternal-child health and family planning clinics in Kenya
11:05-11:10 AM
Lisa Wiggins, MPH Global Health
Sauti ya Vijana: Ethical Challenges Engaging Diverse Adolescents in Care Using WhatsApp and Respondent-Driven Sampling
11:10-11:15 AM
Briana Williams, MPH Global HealthSituational Analysis of Cervical Cancer Services at MRF in Trinidad
11:15-11:25 AM
Q&A Session
11:25-11:30 AM
Break
11:30-11:35 AM
Junyi Zhang, MPH Health Services
Water Insecurity Issues Faced by Families with Children Staying at Pediatric Wards in Uganda Health Facilities
11:35-11:40 AM
Richard Lee, PharmD
Assessing Immunization Program Strategies: An Exploratory Learning Experience with PATH in Collaboration with GAVI
11:40-11:50 AM
Q&A Session
11:50-11:55 AM
Katrina Perez, DNP-Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Nursing Engagement Tools for Implementation of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Inpatient Care Pathway
11:55 AM-12:00 PM
Hannah Bridgeland, DNP-Family Nurse Practitioner
Community-Driven Health Education: A Global Health Approach
12:00-12:06 PM
Q&A Session
12:06-12:15 PM
Closing remarks and wrap up
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