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New Fogarty Fellowship in Peru to Establish Center for Innovation in Global Health

The KUSKAYA project presented jointly by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and the University of Washington in Seattle, was one of five projects in 2013 that received funding from the Fogarty International Center to establish a training program and Center for Innovation in Global Health to employ an interdisciplinary approach for understanding complex health problems, emphasizing leadership, business models, policy analysis and implementation science. KUSKAYA means "working together" in Quechua, a Peruvian native language.

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Design Corps Picks UW Project in Peru as One of Six Public Interest Global Design Winners

Design Corps picked a UW project in Peru, Comunidad Ecologica Saludable (Healthy Ecological Community), as one of six Public Interest Design Global winners. Applicants came from 28 countries. This is the sixth design award for the project headed by Assoc. Prof. Ben Spencer (Landscape Architecture), and Prof. Susan Bolton (Environmental and Forest Sciences) to create a green space in the desert community of Puente Piedra, Peru.

Other awards for this project include:

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Adj. Prof. Julie McElrath Honored with Women of Influence Award

Adjunct Professor Julie McElrath, MD, PhD was honored with the Puget Sound Business Journal 2013 Women of Influence Award for her work on HIV vaccine research on November 13, 2013.  Dr. McElrath is Senior Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and she has been working in the field of HIV/AIDS for more than 30 years. Read more.

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