{"id":15375,"date":"2021-02-15T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:18:13","slug":"global-wach-virtually-participates-in-the-seventh-annual-global-healthies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2021\/02\/15\/global-wach-virtually-participates-in-the-seventh-annual-global-healthies\/","title":{"rendered":"Global WACh virtually participates in the seventh annual Global Healthies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-1024x360.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-768x270.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-375x132.jpg 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-750x264.jpg 750w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GH2021BANNER_0-1140x401.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Global WACh participated in the Department of Global Health\u2019s seventh annual Global Healthies event this month, an event that brings the UW and Seattle-area global health community together to explore opportunities for collaborations and to highlight students\u2019 global health research.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students virtually networked with Kate Rankin (Managing Director), Stephanie Edlund-Cho (Program Operation Specialist), and Hannah Atlas (Research Coordinator) to learn about the Center and seven opportunities to support ongoing research activities.<\/p>\n<p>Through this event, faculty found matching student support to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consolidate feedback from interviews and surveys into a policy development tool to engage stakeholders in the neglected tropical diseases field to determine best practices for updating global soil-transmitted helminth (STH) guidelines<\/li>\n<li>Develop study materials for a new trial in Kenya to determine the efficacy of lactoferrin and lysozyme (antibacterial proteins) supplementation in decreasing diarrhea and improving nutritional recovery in children<\/li>\n<li>Assist in writing a research grant proposal utilizing previously collected trial samples to test for sickle cell disease in Kenyan children using point-of-care diagnostic tests; other supportive tasks include performing a literature review of sickle cell disease prevalence, consequences, and management; and conducting data analysis of sickle cell health consequences in Kenyan children<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of outcomes associated with the suite of projects utilizing mobile technologies to support women-infant pairs in Kenya engage in neonatal care, postpartum care, family planning, and mental health, as well as developing future projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are still available opportunities for UW students to engage in ongoing projects and new opportunities constantly arise!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/get-involved\/work-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See what is currently offered and how to get involved<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh participated in the Department of Global Health\u2019s seventh annual Global Healthies event this month, an event that brings the UW and Seattle-area global health community together to explore opportunities for collaborations and to highlight students\u2019 global health research.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2021\/02\/15\/global-wach-virtually-participates-in-the-seventh-annual-global-healthies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19010,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions\/19010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}