Join the School of Public Health in our annual Day of Service! April 12, 2014
The SPH Day of Service is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to come together and give back to the community through direct service.
Transportation and a boxed lunch provided! Projects include:
Food Lifeline
Shoreline Volunteer Repack Center
1-4pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
I-TECH Zimbabwe’s male circumcision program was inaugurated in March 2013 by our local partner, the Zimbabwe Association of Church-Related Hospitals (ZACH), with completion of 16 surgeries at the Tshelanyemba Mission Hospital in Gwanda District in the Southern Province. The PI for the program, which is supported by the CDC, is Scott Barnhart.
Located at the Mekelle Hospital in the Tigray region, the facility features a TB isolation ward with a multiple-drug resistant TB unit. The ward, inaugurated in April 2013, was constructed by I-TECH Ethiopia and funded by PEPFAR through the U.S. CDC. It is one of three such facilities in the country.
Lilongwe District’s Nkhoma Hospital has started offering Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services. The initiative is in partnership with Lilongwe District Office and Health Education Unit of the Ministry of Health, and I-TECH Malawi as part of a subgrant of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It is intended to encourage more eligible men to access locally available VMMC services.
On June 16, the newly renovated, state-of-the-art laboratory at Debre-Berhan Referral Hospital was launched. It is the first referral hospital lab in the country that can accommodate high-standard, quality laboratory technologies and services which will serve over 2 million citizens. The laboratory was renovated and equipped by the U.S. CDC and I-TECH Ethiopia through partnership with the Amhara Regional Health Bureau.
I-TECH Haiti received a five-year grant from the CDC, “Improving Prevention and Care: Strengthening Health Systems.” The grant continues many of the formerly HRSA-funded activities, including clinical mentoring, health management information systems (iSanté, OpenELIS, TrainSMART), and pre-service for nursing, lab, and medical officers. The PI is Scott Barnhart, and funding for the first year is expected to be approximately $4.05 million.