Sean Bernfeld, a first-year medical student on the Global Health Immersion Program (GHIP), went to Uganda to work with Hospice Africa Uganda, which provides support for patients with HIV/AIDS and cancer. Bernfeld said he wasn’t sure what he was going to do while he was there, but he had brought his camera, and a photo project was born.
Last month, a distinguished group from the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) and Department of Global Health (DGH) visited Addis Ababa and Gondar, Ethiopia, for several days of discussion, workshops, events, and celebration — including the University of Gondar’s 60th anniversary Diamond Jubilee and the inauguration of the University of Gondar Comprehensive Outpatient Center.
In the fall, Health Equity Circle (HEC) students are working directly with Sound Alliance under the supervision of Dr. Rick Arnold to offer UCONJ 624: Health Equity and Community Organizing in Autumn 2014. This course will equip students from the six health sciences schools to work together to develop community organizing skills focused on upstream action for health equity.
A new Scientific American (SA) article special issue highlights the 12 recommendations of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, published in 2010.
Congrats to Jillian Pintye, MPH '14 (Epi, Global Health), who won a prestigious Young Investigator Award at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia, July 20-25.
Nadia Arang (BS, Microbiology, Minor, Global Health 2014) began full-time work at Seattle BioMed just a week after graduating from the UW. She researches how malaria parasites get inside the human liver, where they grow and multiply. "The research has a very clear and direct impact on human life," Arang says. "It's very easy to stay engaged."
The Department sent another large cohort into the world June 11, 2014 -- our eighth since we formed in 2007. We graduated 32 MPH students, nine pathobiology PhDs, and 18 certificate students. Additionally, 27 doctors were trained through the Global Health Pathway, and three post-graduate fellows and 13 post-bachelor fellows completed their fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). And we had more than 100 global health minor undergraduates. These graduates join a network of over 1,000 alumni who are working in all aspects of global health around the world.
In May 2014, the Department of Global Health awarded fellowships to 19 outstanding students and medical residents. With support from one of these five programs they will travel to 10 countries to work on wide variety of projects addressing issues such as childhood cancer, TB, and mental health. The 2014-2015 fellowship recipients are listed below.
For more information on the fellowships, visit the Global Health Resource Center's Funding and Fieldwork page.
An expert in medicine and public health, ranging from infectious diseases, to injuries, and mental health, Dr. Mark Rosenberg served 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including early work in smallpox eradication, enteric diseases, and HIV/AIDS. He was instrumental in establishing CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and became the first permanent director in 1994, serving as director and Assistant Surgeon General until 1999.
How can smart phones prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission? Three approaches are gaining attention for their innovative use of technology to improve access to safe breast milk, patient education and HIV testing at home. Read more about how technology is being used by Global Health faculty Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH and partners UW Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and PATH, in the June 2014 edition of Columns, the UW alumni magazine.