Over the course of five years, Dr. Delaney Ruston traveled to India, China, South Africa and France exploring the plight of the mentally ill. Dr. Ruston has produced a full-length documentary on global mental health called "Hidden Pictures: A Personal Journey Into Global Mental Health." Real Change interviewed Ruston for their cover story Feb. 19-25, 2014. The film will be shown 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, March 7 as part of Global Health Career Week.

Dr. Gabor Maté, the renowned author on addictions, last week told more than 100 UW health-sciences students that the educational framework they are being taught is woefully inadequate because it separates the mind from the body.
“For all the medical students, how many are taking courses on brain development?”
Only a handful of  med students were in the room. None had an answer.

With international attention focused on the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, the Western Regional International Health Conference theme, Uncensored, is at the forefront of global health. Conference Coordinator Mariel Boyarsky interviewed Stella Nyanzi,PhD, a social science researcher and anthropologist at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Uganda, to get her perspective on the events unfolding in Uganda, and her work on African sexuality.  

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said his agency along with the Defense Department, plans to spend an additional $45 million in 2014 to partner with 10 countries on projects to improve field epidemiology and diagnostic testing. The news was picked up by widely by media, including NPR, (Stopping Microbes Not Missiles: U.S.