News

December 20, 2018

Researchers attend NIH implementation science grant writing workshop

Global WACh researchers, Drs. Kristin Beima-Sofie (Acting Assistant Professor, Global Health) and Anjuli Wagner (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health), and UW School of Nursing’s Dr. Erin Blakeney (Research Assistant Professor) recently returned from Bethesda, MD, where they completed their training with the National Institute of Health’s Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) program.

The three investigators were among a cohort of 50 investigators with varying levels of research experience and interests in studying dissemination and implementation (D&I) across health care, public health, and community settings. They shared their training experience at Global WACh’s latest Working in Implementation Science (WISE) Working Group meeting. (more…)

December 3, 2018

Global WACh Shares Novel Research Findings at International Conferences

Categories: Conferences, Gut Health and Child Survival, HIV, Research

Over Fall quarter, Global WACh researchers shared novel research findings from our three scientific priority areas at several international conferences: The HIV Prevention for HIV Conference (HIVR4P), Union World Conference on Lung Health, and American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH). Continue reading for conference highlights and photos! (more…)

November 29, 2018

Certificate Student Fall Spotlight: Marissa Masidhas and Manahil Siddiqi

Categories: Certificate Program

We’re pleased to highlight two of our Global WACh Graduate Certificate Students this quarter. (more…)

Global WACh Announces the 2018 Seeds for Change Award Recipients

Categories: Awards

Global WACh is pleased to announce applicants selected for this year’s funding cycle of the Seeds for Change Resource Award to Strengthen Collaborative Sites. Congratulations to our three awardees! (more…)

November 27, 2018

Drs. Christine McGrath, Kirk Tickell receive a Thrasher Award for innovative strategy to train and support mothers to identify early childhood malnutrition

Categories: Awards, Gut Health and Child Survival

Malnutrition programs in limited-resource settings currently rely on community health workers to screen children for acute malnutrition by measuring their mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), which is the circumference of a patient’s arm at the midpoint between the shoulder and elbow. MUAC uses a simple, color-coded plastic band to provide an assessment of nutritional status and is an effective tool to predict mortality.

Recruiting and retaining community-based providers who are adequately trained and equipped to perform this screening is challenging and can result in high costs, low screening coverage, and late identification of malnourished children. What if mothers had the tools and training to quickly determine their child’s nutritional status in their own homes and rapidly engage with nutritional services, if needed? (more…)

September 20, 2018

ATTACH study hosts a workshop to strategize improving pediatric to adult HIV care transition

Categories: HIV

This week, the “Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult HIV Care in Kenya (ATTACH)” study team held a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss strategies to improve transition of adolescents into adult HIV care. Dr. Kristin Beima-Sofie, Global WACh co-investigator for ATTACH, traveled to Kenya with UW student researchers, Dr. Irene Njuguna (Infectious Disease Researcher from Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya; current Epidemiology PhD student) and Danae Black (Epidemiology PhD Student). (more…)

August 10, 2018

Global WACh Attends 2018 AIDS

Categories: Conferences, HIV, Research

The International Aids Society hosted the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam from July 23-27, 2018.

This year, the conference objectives focused on advancing knowledge of HIV through research findings, promoting evidence-based HIV responses tailored to key populations, activating and galvanizing political commitment and accountability, addressing gaps in and highlighting the critical role of HIV prevention, as well as spotlighting the epidemic and HIV response in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Global WACh faculty, staff, student research assistants, and international collaborators had a strong presence at the conference to share and discuss a number of selected abstracts. In total, 12 members attended, with four selected abstracts for oral presentations and seven poster abstracts at AIDS 2018. Some members participated in the pre-conference event, the 10th Workshop on HIV Pediatrics from July 20-21, where eight selected poster abstracts were featured.

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July 19, 2018

Dr. Brandon Guthrie receives award for mHealth intervention supporting pediatric to adult HIV care transition

Categories: Awards, HIV, Youth

Congratulations to Dr. Brandon Guthrie, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, who received a NIH R34 Clinical Trial Planning Grant award to develop and test a mobile health technology (mHealth) based intervention to support youth transitioning from pediatric to adult HIV care in Kenya!

He is leading a team of researchers from the University of Washington, including Drs. Jennifer Unger, PhD (Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology), Keshet Ronen, PhD (Research Scientist, Global Health), and Kristin Beima-Sofie, PhD (Research Scientist, Global Health).

The team is also partnering with Dr. Megan Moreno, MD, from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Pediatrics Department, and with long-time collaborators from Kenyatta National Hospital. (more…)

July 18, 2018

SCOPE trains community leaders and health workers as Maternal Health Advocates for FLAME study

Categories: Uncategorized

In June, the SCOPE program held a training for their FLAME study in Gondar, Ethiopia. FLAME, which stands for Faith Leaders Advocating for Maternal Empowerment, is testing an intervention that brings communities together to improve access to antenatal and delivery care for women in rural Ethiopia.

The training brought 122 community leaders and health workers from across the North Gondar region who will be change agents in their community and promote safe pregnancy and delivery. (more…)

Congratulations to Global WACh Certificate Students, Class of 2018

Categories: Certificate Program, students

This year, Global WACh graduated its largest class ever of Certificate Program students. Nine students from the Schools of Nursing, Public Administration, Public Health, and Social Work presented their capstone project posters at the “Next Big Thing” annual year-end celebration in May at the UW HUB Lyceum.