• The International Student Success Program (ISSP) received a 2025 MLK Community Service Award

• Implementation Science PhD Candidate, Dr. Irene Mukui, received the 2024 CFAR Mentored International Investigator Award (MIIA)

• PhD Global Health Metrics & Implementation Science student, Priyanka Shrestha, recognized as part of the 2025 Husky 100 cohort

•  Master of Public Health, Global Health student, Morgan Aurelio, recognized as part of the 2025 Husky 100 cohort

• CompSci Ph.D. Student and Graduate Certificate holder (Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children), Ananditha Raghunath, recognized as part of the 2025 Husky 100 cohort

• Master of Marine Sciences student and Graduate Certificate holder (Climate Change and Health), Elyse Kelsey, recognized as part of the 2025 Husky 100 cohort

• PhD Global Health Metrics & Implementation Science Student, Grace Umutesi, received the Runner Up & People’s Choice Awards for the 2025 UW Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 

• Undergraduate PH-GH Health Education & Health Promotion Student, Erica Stagg, received the 2025 SPH Excellence Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student - Department of Global Health 

• Master of Public Health, Global Health Student, Brekken Cogswell, received the 2025 SPH Excellence Award for Outstanding Master's Student - Department of Global Health

• PhD Global Health Implementation Science Degree Holder, Tessa Concepcion, received the 2025 SPH Excellence Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student - Department of Global Health

• Lisa Nonzee, DGH Human Resources Manager, received both the 2025 SPH Excellence Awards for Outstanding Staff - Department of Global Health and the school-wide Anderson-O'Connell Award for Outstanding Staff Service
• Dr. Jillian Neary, Postdoctoral Scholar-Fellow with Global WACh, received a 2025 UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) New Investigator Award

• DrGH student, Patience Komba recognized as part of the Husky 100
• MPH student, Sandra Urusaro recognized as part of the Husky 100
• DGH Communications student assistant, Sophie Li recognized as part of the Husky 100
• MPH student, Amanda Li received the 2024 Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence
• PhD student, Mohamed Albirair received the 2024 School of Public Health Teaching Assistant Award
• PhD student, Amanda Brumwell named a 2024-2025 Magnuson Scholar
• MPH student, Dismas Congo Ouma received a 2024 SPH Outstanding Master's Student Award of Excellence
• PhD student, Melody Wang received a 2024 SPH Outstanding PhD Student Award of Excellence
• DrGH student, Zahra Zeinali received the Health Systems Global - Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research Societal Award at the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
• PhD student, George Wanje received the Inaugural Lisa Simpson Best Poster Award at D&I 2024

• Rachel Johnson, Managing Director of ICRC, received the 2024 SPH Award of Excellence

• MD-MPH student, Rachel Rinehart recognized as part of the Husky 100
• PhD student, Sarah Shaw recognized as part of the Husky 100
• MPH student, Carole Green received the 2023 SPH Award of Excellence
• MD-MPH student, Naomi Nkinsi was awarded the 2023 Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award, and the King County Academy of Family Physicians Theodore J Philips Award.
• MPH student, Lydia Haile received the UW Graduate School’s 2023 Distinguished Thesis Award (Biological Sciences)
• PhD IS student, Grace Umutesi received the 2023 L'Oréal-UNESCO #ForWomenInScience Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award

• Nami Hirai, Budget Fiscal Analyst, received the 2023 SPH Award of Excellence

• MPH Student, Naomi Tweyo Nkinsi received a 2022 MLK Community Service Award 
• MD Student, Lauren Marcell recognized as part of the Husky 100
• Global Health Student, Paytan Murray recognized as part of the Husky 100
• Global Health Student, Andrea Jade Scallon recognized as part of the Husky 100
• Global Health Student, Kathy Hoang-Nguyen recognized as part of the Husky 100

• Arika Johnson, Program Manager, received the 2022 University of Washington Department of Global Health (DGH) Outstanding Staff Award

• PhD student, Dorothy Thomas, recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• PhD student, Beatrice Wamuti, recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• MPH student, Evalynn Fae Taganna Romano, recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• MPH student, Juan Sebastian Osorio-Valencia, recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• MPH student, Sumaya Mohamed, recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• Global Health Student, Debora Ferede,  recognized as part of the Husky 100.
• Global Health Student, Avneet K. Bhullar recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• PhD student, Coco Alarcon won the 2021 The Lancet Global Health-CUGH Best Student Poster Competition.
• MPH Student, Naomi Nkisi, was selected for the  Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and was recognized as part of the Husky 100. 
• PhD Student, Grace Umutesi was was selected for the Dr. Wasserheit Young Leader Award for 2021. 
• MPH Student, Bianca Graves was awarded the Grayston-Day Fellowship. 
• PhD Student, Dorothy Thomas was recognized as a 2021-2022 Magnuson Scholar. 
• Global Health Minor student Nuria Alina Chandra selected for President's Medalist Award for 2019-20.

• Anya Nartker, Online Education Manager, received the 2021 University of Washington Department of Global Health (DGH) Outstanding Staff Award.

• PhD student Charlton Callender won the UW Graduate School’s 2020 Distinguished Thesis Award (category: Biological Sciences)
• PhD student Natasha Bourgeois won the Discovery and Development award at the 2020 Global Healthies
• MPH student Paige Stringer won the Education and Training award at the 2020 Global Healthies
• PhD student Melody Wang won the Implementation and Application award at the 2020 Global Healthies
• PhD student Erin Frame won the Public Health and Direct Care award at the 2020 Global Healthies
• MPH student Polly Woodbury won the Oscar Gish Social Justice & Equity award at the 2020 Global Healthies
• MPH student Polly Woodbury was a recipient of the 2020 Husky 100 award
• Global WACh Graduate Certificate student Kristen Trivelli was a recipient of the 2020 Husky 100 award

• Noura Youssoufa, Academic Advisor, MPH and Undergraduate Programs, received the 2020 Department of Global Health Outstanding Staff Award

• Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore received the School of Public Health’s Community Volunteer Recognition Award at 2020's Health Sciences MLK Celebration
• Paige Stringer, MPHc, is one of four humanitarian leaders honored by World of Children with the 2019 Health Award
• Courtney Jackson was a recipient of the 2019 Husky 100 award 
• Christopher Kemp received the SPH Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence Doctoral Award
• Katheryn McGuckin Wuertz received the SPH Outstanding PhD Student Award
• Rabi Yunusa received the SPH Outstanding Master's Student Award
• Fritz Siegert won the Global Health Outstanding Medical Student Achievement Award and the 2019 US Public Health Service Award

• Kate Pfizenmaier, Managing Director, Global WACh and SCOPE, wins the 2019 Outstanding Staff Award from the UW Department of Global Health.
• Maya Beal, I-TECH Contracts and Operations Manager, received the Bob Roseth Outstanding Staff Award from the UW Professional Staff Organization

• Erica Orange (MPH, Oscar Gish Social Justice and Health Equity award), Jiho Kim (PhDc, Discovery and Development), Courtney DeCan (MDc, Education and Training), Roy Burnstein (PhDc, Implementation and Application), and Elizabeth Karman (MPH, Public Health Service and Direct Care) and Gregoire Lurton (PhDc, Public Health Service and Direct Care) were winners of Global Healthies 2018 awards.
• Shiza Farid, MPH, was a 2017-2018 Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) award recipient for her work in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Kate Simeon, School of Medicine, and Haley Carroll, Department of Psychology, won the Lancet-Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Top Awards for Innovative Research in the Student Poster Competition.
• Annual School of Public Health Awards of Excellence winners: Katrin Fabian, MPH, SPH Gilbert S. Omenn Award; Emily Gage, Outstanding PhD Student Award; and Peder Digre, Outstanding MPH Student Award.
• MPH students Chenglin Hong and Polly Woodbury were awarded Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) Endowed Scholarships.
• Samantha Dolan, PhD student in Implementation Science, has received a Grand Challenges award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with Professor Peter Rabinowitz and Ian Njeru from I-TECH Kenya.

• Annual School of Public Health Awards of Excellence winner: Michelle Ward, Outstanding Staff Award.

• Jay Vornhagen, PhD student in Pathobiology, received the Guy Tribble and Susan Barnes Graduate Discovery Fellowship from the UW School of Medicine
• Emily Mosites, PhD '15, joined the Center for Disease Control’s Arctic Investigations Program in Anchorage, AK as an incoming Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer.
• Cheryl Dietrich, MPH '16, is an ASPPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellow, working with the CDC to reduce the burden of HIV and TB in South Africa. 
• Alejandra Cabral, MPH, Outstanding Student award for Masters in Global Health, 2017 School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Arianna Means, PhD student, Outstanding Student award for PhD in Global Health, 2017 School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Caroline Soi, PhD candidate, was awarded the Bud Tribble and Susan Barnes Graduate Discovery Fellowship for an internship at the World Health Organization's (WHO) Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Christopher Kemp, PhD, won a pre-doctoral research fellowship (F31) from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the scale-up of integrated primary mental health services in rural South Africa.
• Matthew Coates, Metrics and Evaluation MPH graduate, was one of three students recognized with the UW Graduate School's Distinguished Thesis Award.
• Shiza Farid, MPH, was awarded the Anil Ranjan Das Gupta Scholarship.

• The Fiscal and Grants Management Team for the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) was nominated for the 2017 UW Distinguished Staff Award. The team includes Benjamin Browning-Roberts, Kathy Heuring, Rachel Johnson, Toni Maddox and Kelly Moutsos. 
• Pirie Hart received the Community Service Award at the 2017 School of Public Health Excellence Award
• Meghan Herman won the Outstanding Staff Award for Global Health at the 2017 School of Public Health Excellence Awards.

• Farah Mohamed, Omenn Award, School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Alexandra (Allie) Wollum, Outstanding Student, Masters, School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Laura Martinez, Outstanding Student, PhD, School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Kelly Walters (MPH ’16), Graduate School’s Distinguished Thesis Award in Biological Sciences.
• Brianne Huffstetler Rowan, 4th year medical student, was selected as a 2016 Pisacano Scholar by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Board of Family Medicine.
• Keshet Ronen and Anjuli Wagner received the 2016 UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research New Investigator Awards.

• Julie Brunett was nominated for the University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award as part of the 2016 Awards of Excellence.
• Aleta Elliott received the Global Health Outstanding Staff Award at the 2016 School of Public Health Excellence Awards.
• Paul Nevin (MPH ’15) was awarded first place prize for feature photography for the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Awards in Region 10 for his photography that documents maternal health issues in Kenya. 

• Peter Cherutich, Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence (PhD), School of Public Health. Peter was nominated for his outstanding achievement within the public health community. He is the first graduate of the Doctoral Program in Global Health: Metrics and Implementation Science. He has dedicated his research to measuring the impact of HIV prevention interventions on HIV incidence and survival. His work as Kenya’s Deputy Head, National AIDS/STD Control Programme, will continue to develop future global health leaders and scientists in Africa.
• Nicole Ide, University of Washington 2015 Distinguished Thesis Award (Social Sciences category).
• Biraj Karmacharya, Tobacco Scholars - Tobacco Studies Program. The scholars will pursue opportunities for education and training in tobacco prevention, research, treatment and policy. Read more. He was also appointed co-director of the new Nepal Studies Initiative at the Jackson School. He hopes the program will advance collaboration between UW and Nepal in different fields, including public health.
• Caitlin Milligan, Doctoral Level Outstanding PhD Student for Global Health, School of Public Health.
• MPH student Paul Nevin traveled to Kenya, thanks to a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. His feature story, Seattle group's training program saves lives of moms and babies in Kenya, appeared on page one of The Seattle Times.
• D. Allen Roberts, Master’s Level Outstanding Student for Global Health, School of Public Health.
• Keshet Ronen won Best Poster at the pediatric workshop held before the International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment & Prevention. Ronen is a postdoctoral fellow with Global WACh. 

• Corrie Ortega, Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, School of Public Health.
• Gena Barnabee, Master’s Level Outstanding Student for Global Health, School of Public Health.
• Peter Cherutich, Doctoral Level Outstanding Student for Global Health, School of Public Health.

Department of Global Health, Silver Award, Outstanding Global Health Organization, Seattle Business' Leaders in Health Care Awards. 
Everyone can contribute to solving health care problems, according to the UW Department of Global Health, which brings together talent across many campus disciplines. Science and engineering students are finding ways to harvest fog for clean water in Peru. Computer scientists explore how big data analysis can shed light on worldwide disease. Business students aid efforts at global social entrepreneurship. Only imagination limits what many praise as the most collaborative program in the country.

White House Champion of Change Award
DGH graduate Mohamed Ali, MPH, received the White House Champion of Change Award.  Ali is the co-chair of the King County Somali Health Board, an organization he helped establish to improve communications between the Somali immigrant community, health care providers, and local health agencies.

Partners PrEP Study Team awarded University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award
Partners PrEP study team, Mira Emmanuel-Ogier, Harald Haugen, Ting Hong, Lara Kidoguchi, Meighan Krows, Susan Morrison, Dana Panteleeff and Kathy Thomas, received the University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award. The team successfully served as the core operations for a large and very complex HIV prevention study in Africa. They achieved extremely high recruitment, retention and data quality while implementing a complex medical trial. And they shepherded a new product for HIV prevention through regulatory approval, all while based here at the UW.

Puente Piedra Project Wins 3 Design Awards
Students from multiple disciplines have worked with residents of a mega-slum in Lima, Peru, called Puente Piedra, through The Puente Piedra Project: Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities. As UW students and faculty worked with the community, they learned that residents had a great desire for green space, so students helped residents of the Lomas de Zapallal community of about 27,000 people plan and transform a barren, sandy hillside into a park with walkways, trees, plants, and shrubs. Technical assistance included designing a system to recycle water from a handwashing station and pipe it to the park for irrigation. The project won three international design awards in 2012*, including the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Award for excellence in public interest design. The project also won the 2012 Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Design Award and the 2012 American Society of Landscape Architects Community Service Honor Award.

Mental Health Partnership in Nairobi
The University of Nairobi received a Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)-linked award focused on research training in mental health. This three-year award, led by Dr. Muthoni Mathai from the University of Nairobi and Dr. Jurgen Unutzer from the University of Washington, builds upon the nearly 30-year research training collaboration between UW and the University of Nairobi. Dr. Deepa Rao is the UW program director.
The University of Nairobi (UON) has two other MEPI awards with the Department of Global Health, one which focuses on improving medical education and retention of doctors in Kenya and another linked award which focuses on maternal, newborn, and child health. Both awards are in their third year of funding.
This new mental health linked award aims to improve mental health research capacity by training University of Nairobi faculty and postgraduates and by establishing a Mental Health Resource Center to support these efforts at UON. UW faculty will be providing in-person training, distance learning courses and mentorship. This exciting interdisciplinary award came out of ongoing conversations in the Department of Global Health’s Global Mental Health Group and is one of the first collaborations between the Department of Global Health and the Department of Psychiatry.

Mobile Moms Chosen by Young People Looking for a Cause
The Seattle organization Health Alliance International at UW, which launched a Mobile Moms text messaging service aimed at improving maternal health in Timor-Leste, was the beneficiary of the funds raised by a party July 14 at McCaw Hall by a group of young people called Agency. Ticket sales were about $40,000.

UW Course on Clinical Management of HIV Wins Global Health Prize
A UW graduate course in HIV has been awarded a global health prize that recognizes the most original project conducted to alleviate poverty-related chronic and/or infectious disease in the last year. The course, Global Health 573 “Clinical Management of HIV,” received the Velji Award for Global Health Project of the Year Nov. 15 at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference in Montreal.  The course is directed by Nina Kim, UW assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Since 2007, Global Health 573 has delivered free HIV training to more than 1,000 health professionals and has been webcast in 21 countries with the technical assistance of Treatment Research and Expert Education, a training program of the Department of Global Health established by Michael Chung, UW assistant professor of medicine and global health and international course director. Most of the distant students have been health professionals from countries in Africa, India, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The course also has led to several new partnerships with medical schools in Ethiopia and South Africa as well as with hospitals in resource-constrained settings, with the goal of fostering medical education and on-site HIV clinical mentorship.
The course organizers will receive a plaque, as well as $1,000 to support ongoing volunteer global health activities. 

UW Leads NIH-Funded Consortium to Train Global Health Researchers 
The UW is one of five consortia of colleges and universities to receive funds from the National Institutes of Health to help foster the next generation of global health scientists. The Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars program is building a network of U.S. academic institutions to provide early career physicians, veterinarians, dentists and scientists with a significant mentored research experience in a developing country. Joseph Zunt, associate professor in global health and the principal investigator for the UW-led consortium, said the grant will provide new opportunities for training 12-15 U.S. and international doctoral students and post-doctoral trainees each year in international settings. 

UW Students Find Spiders with Potential to Combat Malaria
UW seniors Christine Scullywest, Adam Tanaka, and Roshan Mahoney were recently among three first-place finishers in the Washington Global Health Alliance’s Be the Change student competition, thanks to their research proposal of employing the Evarcha culicivora spider to control malaria-spreading mosquitoes. The spiders are natural predators of female mosquitoes, which carry the malaria virus.