Category Archives: Global Health

Peace Corps Events in Seattle

Peace Corps Events in Seattle What will you be doing this time next year? Continue your application or apply now to be living and working overseas in 2012. Info Session – Downtown Thursday, October 20 • 12 to 1 p.m….

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Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity

Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad *Join Unite For Sightâ??s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive global health experience. * A transformative volunteer abroad experience for students and professionals, Unite For Sight is renowned as the…

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Why LGBT Global Rights are a Game Changer, and Will Liberate Us All”

The UW Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health Working Group is excited to host, Cary Alan Johnson, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), www.iglhrc.org http://www.iglhrc.org/ Tuesday, October 25 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. William H. Foege Building,…

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Volunteer Abroad with Global Public Health Brigades!

Volunteer Opportunities Abroad – Public Health Infrastructure PUBLIC HEALTH BRIGADES INFO SESSION Wednesdays Oct 12th,19th & 26th in PACCAR 295 @ 5:30PM Want to help decrease life threatening diseases in under resourced communities? Would you like to travel to beautiful…

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Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity

Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad Join Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive global health experience. A transformative volunteer abroad experience for students and professionals, Unite For Sight is renowned as the highest…

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Attend the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Panel – Oct. 6

Attend the event  October 6, 2011 Hello! Please join us for a conversation with women leaders about the role of family planning and reproductive health in international development! This presentation event will feature Azza Nofly, Jane Godia, and Olive Mtema,…

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Global Health Minor Information Session

The next Global Health Minor information session will be held on Monday, October 3, 2011: Monday, October 3, 2011 Time: 12pm – 1pm Where: Mary Gates Hall, room 258 Please join us to learn more about the Minor and discuss…

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Global Health Seminar Schedule AUT 2011

> Please join us this Friday for our first Global Health Seminar of the quarter. This quarter’s presentations will bring Global Health MPH faculty, researchers from various UW departments, and visiting activists and scholars who will introduce their interdisciplinary, global…

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Unite For Sight

Hello everyone, We invite you to participate in an exciting service opportunity at the UW: Join Our Global Health Delivery Movement: Unite For Sight Did you know that 80% of blindness is preventable or curable, and the life expectancy of…

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Development and Global Health Trivia + Ice Cream! Wednesday @ 12PM.

Hi all, Are you interested in *global development, global health, or social justice*? Do you want to meet *likeminded peers* and learn about *campus resources *to help you*make a difference*? (Or do you just love *ice cream*, trivia, and prizes?)…

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Global Public Health Brigades

A potential opportunity for next summer: Hi, My name’s Kit Rood, I’m a student in a the Biology department at UW and a member of the University of Washington chapter of Global Public Health Brigades. Global Brigades is an international…

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Gates Foundation Names Dr. Trevor Mundel to Lead Global Health Program

press release Sept. 13, 2011, 9:00 a.m. EDT Gates Foundation Names Dr. Trevor Mundel to Lead Global Health Program http://i1.marketwatch.com/MW5/content/story/images/PR-Logo-Newswire.gif SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Dr. Trevor Mundel…

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CFHI: New Intensive Spanish Program

This email is being sent as a service to Child Family Health International.  Please direct your inquiries to them.   Child Family Health International (CFHI) is excited to announce a new Intensive Beginner Spanish Program as well as two rounds of scholarships…

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April 27-29, 2012, 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference in Seattle, WA

We are proud to announce the 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference The Theme The theme for this year’s conference is At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health. This conference seeks to engage the global health community…

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TODAY at 4:30 p.m.! WGHA Discovery Series Lecture on HIV and Topical Antiretrovirals

Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series Presents: “The Power of Topical Antiretrovirals for Prevention of HIV” Sharon L. Hillier, Ph.D. Professor & Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics…

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