Category Archives: Global Health

Maternal Health Fistula Prevention

Please join us for a conversation on GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH & PREVENTING FISTULA IN KENYA Special guests include Sarah Omega Kidangasi and Heidi Breeze-Harris, Executive Director of One by One Event Sponsors UW Women’s Center UW Dept of Gender,Women &…

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April 29th 2011, Global Health Lecture

Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series & Program in Education and Research in Latin America Present: “Mesoamerica: Health Opportunities for a Neglected Region” Jaime Sepulveda, MD, MPH, DrSc, MSc This WGHA Discovery Series lecture will be held in conjunction with…

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Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics

E-Mail This This page was sent to you by: trail@u.washington.edu Message from sender: Thought this was interesting. Ann WORLD | April 03, 2011 Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics By CELIA W. DUGGER A rise in programs sending doctors…

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Undergraduate Global Heath Minor Information Session

Greetings, We will be holding our next Global Health (GH) Minor information session on Monday, April 4th from 12:30 to 1pm in Mary Gates Hall, room 258. Please join us to hear details about the Minor and have any of…

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Global Health Seminar begins this Friday, April 1st, 2011 at 12:30PM in Turner Auditorium

*************************************************************************************************************** Dear Faculty, Students, Staff, and Friends of the Global Health MPH Program, Please join us this Friday, April 1st, from 12:30-1:50PM for the first Global Health seminar of the quarter. The Department writes to encourage everyone’s attendance this Friday…

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Microbial World Freshman Seminar still has space

There is still space available in General Studies 197, Microbial World: Friend and Foe, which has been a very popular course in the past. Please forward this exciting freshman seminar course to your students. The course will describe some of…

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CFHI Scholarship and Programs

Child Family Health International www.cfhi.org CFHI Announces Scholarships & New 2-Week Program for 2011 Ten scholarships will be awarded toward any CFHI Program running during the months of August through December 2011. Scholarships are some of CFHI’s biggest yet, US$1,000…

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It Happened on the way to War — March 24

The Bezos Family Foundation invites you to celebrate the release of It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott In 2000, a 20-year-old college student heading to the Marines sought to understand the ethnic violence that had convulsed…

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Paid Biomedical Research Assistantships in Panama – Apply by 4/15

> > *********************************************************** > Lin Murdock > Student Services Coordinator > School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences > Biomedical Research Assistantships in Panama > We are looking for upper-division undergraduate students or recent graduates for 6 month research assistantships in…

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Party with a Purpose 2011, Save the Date

We can’t keep this a secret any longer. The Party with a Purpose will happen Friday, June 17, 2011 8:00 p.m. ’til midnight at McCaw Hall. Tickets available to general public Monday, April 11 Dear All – More than 1,000…

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WGHA Discovery Series on Global Mental Health with Dr. Vikram Patel, LSHTM, Wednesday, March 16, 4 p.m.!

-Glo- – Lec- Please join us Wednesday afternoon for this exciting WGHA Discovery Series lecture with one of the leaders in global mental health! “Why Mental Health Matters to Global Health.” Vikram Patel, MSc, MRCPsych, PhD, FMedSci, Professor of International…

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Critical Development Forum

Critical Development Forum (CDF) Do you want to do international development work? Do you want to make the world a better place? Do you ever wonder why there are so many people in development but such uneven progress? Do you…

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Special Maternal and Child Health event next week

-Glo- If you haven’t heard, we have a great event in partnership with the World Affairs Council on Wednesday, March 16th at 6:30. We are co-hosting the Seattle debut screening of Christy Turlington Burns’ documentary “No Woman, No Cry”, at…

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UAID Prehealth Opportunities

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY Pre-med? Interested in public health? Want international leadership experience? Apply to be part of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch a new student program that will make an impact for years to come! UAID: United Against…

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Invitation to IHME’s Open House- Tuesday March 15th, 2011

You are cordially invited to an Open House at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation March 15, 2011 5:30-8:30 pm 2301 5th Avenue, Suite 600 Seattle, WA Please join us to celebrate an exciting and productive three years since…

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