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.

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.

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.

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.