The Washington State University Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health is working on both a global rabies effort and an assessment of global stunting – all through a multidisciplinary approach.
Deepa Rao and colleagues received a $2.6 million NIH grant to study the effectiveness of a program to reduce stigma among African-American women with HIV.
Dr. Susan Graham has taken over this year as the Director of the Global Health Pathway, a certificate program that requires a combination of a scholarly project, coursework, an international experience, a cross-cultural clinic experience, and community involvement, spread over the four years of medical education. Dr. Graham has directed the concurrent Global Health MD-MPH degree program for the past year, and her involvement with the Pathway and its curriculum has grown from that work. Dr.
The Department of Global Health held an all-day faculty retreat Feb. 5 at the Talaris Center to explore how center, programs, and initiatives could work together better and launch new collaborations. More than 75 people attended and were given presentations on how people are collaborating across campus and with international partners. David Fleming, director of Public Health King County, gave a rousing speech on the need to work local where health disparities in Southern King County were the same as Kenya.
"Do you know that according to the World Health Organization, deaths due to cancer in developing countries have surpassed the deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined? About 80% of deaths due to cancer worldwide occur in developing countries, and infectious disease related cancers account for about 40% of all cancers in Africa...It is high time therefore that Africa paid attention to this ticking time bomb.
More than 1,500 global leaders, researchers, policy makers, educators and students from around the world will come together in Washington, D.C. March 14-16 for the fourth annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the world, including the role of global health in the era of budget cuts.
Al Jazeera launched a new global talk show called South 2 North -- the first global talk show based in Africa. The host, Redi Thlabi, talks to intriguing personalities from around the world. In the first episode, available online, Tlhabi talks to best-selling Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy and hears why she thinks that Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi should not be made into icons.
The Washington Global Health Fund awarded grants to BURN Design Lab ($120,000) and PRONTO International ($50,000).
BURN Design Lab on Vashon Island received $120,000 to manufacture high-quality biomass cookstoves in Kenya and East Africa. The grant will be used to redesign their high-efficiency charcoal cookstove to meet a lower price point for the end user while stimulating the creation of five jobs in Washington.
The Department's Global Medicine's Program reports on its work with the assessment of the pharmacovigilance and drug regulatory systems in Bangladesh.
Sheridan Reiger, a medical and public health student at the University of Washington, has been selected by the School of Public Health for recognition Jan. 17 during the Martin Luther King Jr. tribute. Reiger grew up in Seattle and attended both Garfield High School and the Lakeside School. But when Dr. Paul Farmer came to speak to his senior class at Lakeside, his interest in equity became a pursuit. After high school, he was certified as an emergency medical technician and got a volunteer job working in a clinic in Honduras for a summer.