March 07, 2014 | Department News

Six Outstanding Students Receive Global Healthies Awards: Each Awarded $500

By Bobbi Nodell and Amelia Vader | Department of Global Health

MARCH 7 -- Complete with red carpet and paparazzi, six students were awarded “Global Healthies” awards for outstanding achievement in global health March 6.

The inaugural Global Healthies award ceremony, held in Kane Hall, awarded students in six categories, including the People’s Choice Oscar Gish Social Justice Award. Each awardee received $500.

More than 30 projects were displayed in a poster event before the ceremony, allowing people to vote for the Oscar Gish award.

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March 04, 2014 | Department News

Launch of New Programs in Zimbabwe include Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program

Amid a crowd of 150 health workers, government officials, and members of the press, early this month I-TECH Zimbabwe and partners celebrated the launch of the Training and Mentoring Program and the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program. Both of these programs – funded by PEPFAR and implemented by I-TECH and local partners with support from the CDC – support the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care to build local capacity and provide comprehensive services to combat HIV/AIDS. Among the speakers at the launch were David Bruce Wharton, U.S.

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February 28, 2014 | Department News

Dr. Anurag Mairal Unveils PATH's New Global Health Innovation Hub at Discovery Series

Don’t just innovate because you can. Innovate to find solutions to problems. And seek innovations from the communities and countries affected by the health problem.  Those were the key approaches outlined by Anurag Mairal, PhD, MBA, Global Program Leader for the Technology Solutions Global Program at PATH during the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series on February 27. 

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February 28, 2014 | Department News

Seattle Business Magazine Honors Department of Global Health in Health Care Leadership Awards

Eleven individuals and programs recognized at Seattle Business’ 2014 Leaders in Health Care awards ceremony Monday, Feb. 24, brought honor to the UW through their achievements, including the Department of Global Health. As the magazine stated, “The 2014 Leaders in Health Care Awards offer evidence of the enormous impact of UW Medicine.” The Department, regarded among the most collaborative programs in the country, won silver for Outstanding Global Health Organization, second to the Grand Challenges Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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February 26, 2014 | Department News

Ethiopia: New Regional Lab in Afar Launched

A new regional referral health and research laboratory in Afar regional state, in Semera, was inaugurated in February 2013. The regional laboratory was renovated and established by I-TECH through partnership with the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) and collaboration with the Afar Regional Health Bureau and funded by PEPFAR through the U.S. CDC.

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February 26, 2014 | Department News

I-TECH Launches Circumcision Program in Zimbabwe

I-TECH Zimbabwe’s male circumcision program was inaugurated in March 2013 by our local partner, the Zimbabwe Association of Church-Related Hospitals (ZACH), with completion of 16 surgeries at the Tshelanyemba Mission Hospital in Gwanda District in the Southern Province. The PI for the program, which is supported by the CDC, is Scott Barnhart.

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February 26, 2014 | Department News

New Tuberculosis Facility in Ethiopia Unveiled

Located at the Mekelle Hospital in the Tigray region, the facility features a TB isolation ward with a multiple-drug resistant TB unit. The ward, inaugurated in April 2013, was constructed by I-TECH Ethiopia and funded by PEPFAR through the U.S. CDC. It is one of three such facilities in the country.

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February 26, 2014 | Department News

Malawi’s Nkhoma Hospital Launches Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program

Lilongwe District’s Nkhoma Hospital has started offering Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services. The initiative is in partnership with Lilongwe District Office and Health Education Unit of the Ministry of Health, and I-TECH Malawi as part of a subgrant of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It is intended to encourage more eligible men to access locally available VMMC services.

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