A UW graduate course in HIV has been awarded a global health prize that recognizes the most original project conducted to alleviate poverty-related chronic and/or infectious disease in the last year. The course, Global Health 573 “Clinical Management of HIV,” received the Velji Award for Global Health Project of the Year Nov. 15 at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference in Montreal.  The course is directed by Nina Kim, UW assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street global movement, a group of faculty, staff and students from the University of Washington created a new collective called “Global 99” to look beyond the United States borders to the 99% around the world struggling for a more just global financial order. As global health advocates, members of Global 99 seek to highlight and act upon the growing health inequalities around the world.

UW Global Health reporting student Allison Barrett found that Bhutan, rated top on the worl'd happiness index, is not such a happy place for ethnic Nepali citizens. She writes an interesting insight into deaf Bhutanese refugees now living in Kent.

Research by Connie Celum and Jared Baeten is included in TIME’s new book 100 New Scientific Discoveries: Fascinating, Unbelievable and Mind Expanding Stories. Celum and Baeten are, respectively, director and medical director of the UW International Clinical Research Center, which coordinates multi-center infectious disease prevention trials.