BIRCH team
March 21, 2014 | Department News

NIH Awards $9.8M Grant to Research Consortium for HIV Vaccine Development

University of Washington is part of a consortium led by Seattle Biomed to develop a vaccine that would elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. The $9.8m grant from NIH was announced March 10. Other members of the consortium include Seattle Children's Hospital and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Seattle Biomed Scientific Director Leonidas Stamatatos, PhD, an Affiliate Professor of Global Health will serve as program principal investigator, and will lead the initial phase of the project, which includes the optimization of immunogens. 

BIRCH team
March 14, 2014 | Department News

Department Welcomes Faculty Scholars from China

As part of the groundbreaking project for the UW Department of Global Health and China public health, we are pleased to welcome two outstanding faculty who arrived in Seattle last week. Drs. Jiayan Huang, and Hui Yin will be at the University of Washington as faculty scholars for six months. 

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.

BIRCH team
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.

BIRCH team
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. 

BIRCH team
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.

BIRCH team
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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