This new award will allow I-TECH to fight the spread of HIV in Zimbabwe by rapidly scaling up training and mentoring of the country’s medical staff.
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.
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:
Dean Jamison, health economist, Prof. of Global Health, Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP3) Series Editor, and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, was profiled by Richard Lane of the Lancet on December 7. View the profile here.
Maurizio Vecchione, the Vice President for Global Good at Intellectual Ventures, gave the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series talk Dec. 5 in Kane Hall on “Unlocking the Power of Invention for Developing Countries,” which united UW business and global health students.
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.
On December 3, 2013, The Lancet published Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation. This major new report was prepared by The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), co-chaired by DCP3 series editor, and University of Washington Professor Dean Jamison, PhD, and chaired by Lawrence H.
A recent Humanosphere article suggests we are at a tipping point in the fight against HIV/AIDS, poised to stem the tide if sufficient funding is allocated.
In an article published November 19 by The Lancet, UW Department of Global Health faculty Dean Jamison, MS, PhD, and Carol Levin, MSc, PhD and colleagues outline a new framework for policy decision-making related to funding women's and children's health services.
Two Department of Global Health faculty -- Ali Mokdad, PhD, and Peter Rabinowitz, MD, PhD -- were among 80 researchers around the world to receive Gates Grand Challenges grants Nov. 20 to "pursue bold ideas in global health and development:"