Many staple crops, including wheat, potatoes, and beans, are steadily growing less nutritious - and increased carbon dioxide pollution may be to blame. DGH faculty Dr. Kristie Ebi is quoted.
Hepatitis C (HCV) is the most common bloodborne illness in the United States, and disproportionately impacts low-income people and marginalized communities. A recent UW study evaluates the first-in-the-nation plan for coordination between public health agencies, increased screening, removal of barriers to care and a new approach to purchasing HCV antiviral medications at a discount. DGH professor Dr. Pamela Kohler is quoted.
A new study from the Global WACh center finds that one in four children in low- and middle-income countries experiences severe Shigella-related diarrhea within early childhood. Dr. Patricia Pavlinac, Associate Professor of Global Health, Director of Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children, and Director of Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Network, Global Health is quoted.
In a recent interview with the NIH Fogarty International Center, DGH faculty member Dr. Joe Zunt talked about his thirty years of global health research and field work and had some words of wisdom for students who want to become global health researchers.
A recent GWACh study on Shigella-related illnesses of children in low-and middle-income countries was published in The Lancet and the UW Medicine Newsroom. Dr. Patricia Pavlinac, director of GWACh and Assistant Professor of global health, is quoted.
Dr. Herbie Duber, a global health professor who became health officer for the Kitsap Public Health District on an interim basis in August, will continue to serve in the role going forward.
The Kitsap Public Health District Board appointed Dr. Herbie Duber, a professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Global Health, and Health Metric Sciences, as the agency’s permanent health officer at its Feb. 3 meeting.
In an executive order, Trump put an end to more than three decades of U.S. support for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world's long-standing climate treaty. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake. Rhea Coler, an affiliate professor of global health at the UW, is quoted.
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, associate teaching professor emeritus of global health and of health services at the UW, talks about the state of health care in the United States in this KCSB-FM snippet.