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August 20, 2014 | Department News

‘Taboo Topics in Film’ Panel Addresses Financial Barriers Faced by Trans People, and the Mystery of Female Condoms

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into with a panel title, “Taboo Topics in Film: Social Justice in Gender Identity and Sexual Health.” Even the word taboo made me think of fishnet stockings.  Instead, this engaging panel addressed two very distinct and important issues: female condoms as a preventative tool for women, and the financial barriers to medical procedures faced by transgender people.</body

August 20, 2014 | Department News

Photos from Uganda Win $250 Poster Prize at WRIHC

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. 

BIRCH team
August 15, 2014 | Department News

I-TECH and DGH Leadership Visit I-TECH Ethiopia, Speak at Outpatient Clinic Launch

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.

July 29, 2014 | Department News

Global Health Minor Lands Job at Seattle BioMed

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."

BIRCH team
June 19, 2014 | Department News

Department Celebrates more than 200 Graduates in Global Health

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.

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Travel Fellowships Student Experience
June 09, 2014 | Department News

Department Selects 19 Graduate Students and Trainees to Receive Travel Awards

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.

June 04, 2014 | Department News

Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series Lecture 'The Gun Violence Morass: Science Can Get Us Out of It' - with Mark Rosenberg (May 5, 2014)

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.

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