Through a generous gift and endowment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and complementary Washington State resources, the UW Department of Global Health was established in 2007, bridging the schools of Medicine and Public Health, with a mandate to harness the expertise and interdisciplinary power of all 16 UW schools and colleges.
Our current and emerging focus areas have a strong cross-cutting focus on social justice and equity and include:
- education and training;
- global environmental change;
- health economics;
- health metrics and evaluation;
- health system strengthening;
- implementation science;
- infectious diseases;
- injury and violence prevention;
- laboratory sciences;
- medicine safety;
- mental health; and
- women's, adolescents' and children's health.
Diversity
At the University of Washington, diversity is integral to excellence. We value and honor diverse experiences and perspectives, strive to create welcoming and respectful learning environments, and promote access, opportunity and justice for all.
The Department recognizes that disparities in health around the globe stem from inequity. The Department encourages and supports the multiple identities of staff, faculty and students including, but not limited to, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, culture, spiritual practice, geography, mental and physical disability and age. The Department strives to become a local, national, and international leader in developing and maintaining increased representation and recognition of each of these dimensions of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. For more information, see our webpage.
