BIRCH team
October 09, 2013 | Department News

Dr. Randall Kyes awarded Fulbright Specialist Grant

Randall Kyes, Research Professor in Psychology and Adjunct in Global Health, Director of the Center for Global Field Study, and Core Scientist at the WaNPRC, was recently awarded a grant as a Fulbright Specialist.  Kyes will travel to Indonesia at the end of June for one-month program that involves giving lectures and conducting short training programs focusing on “Conservation Biology & Global health - at the Human-Environment Interface.”  During the program, Kyes will work with colleagues at the University of Indonesia in Java; Hasanuddin University

BIRCH team
October 09, 2013 | Department News

Global Health students, faculty and staff honored with 2013 School of Public Health Awards

The University of Washington School of Public Health honored students, faculty and staff with 2013 awards including four outstanding members of the Department of Global Health.  Congratulations and thank you for your exemplary work and dedication!

Outstanding Staff - Global Health
Josh Apfel

Outstanding Faculty Mentor
Dr. Jared Baeten, MD, PhD

Outstanding Master’s Students - Global Health
Sam Masters

BIRCH team
October 08, 2013 | Department News

Gawande article in The New Yorker mentions UW Global Health START Program research

Atul Gawande's most recent article in The New Yorker, Slow Ideas, examines barriers to the spread of good medical technology, and it highlights the work of University of Washington student analysts from the Strategic Analysis Research and Training (START) program.  START is a collaboration between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the University of Washington that allows students to provide analysis and research to the Foundation.  Gawande's article mentioned START's comparative case studies

BIRCH team
October 08, 2013 | Department News

New External Advisory Board Members

  • Willard Cates, Jr., MD, MPH, President, Research, Family Health International
  • Lee Huntsman, PhD,  President Emeritus, University of Washington
  • Ramanan Laxminarayan, MPH, PhD, Vice-President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy
  • Agnes Soucat, MD, PhD, Director, Human Development Department, African Development Bank
  • Juliano Tubino, Head of Marketing, Amazon, AWS Latin America
  • David Vlahov, PhD, RN, Dean and Endowed Professor in Nursing Educat
BIRCH team
October 08, 2013 | Department News

Faculty Member Jerry Cangelosi Awarded Commercialization Grant

Researchers led by Jerry Cangelosi (DEOHS, Epi, GH) were awarded a commercialization grant for a health care diagnostic tool. They are developing a product that can detect whether the bacteria present is capable of turning into a serious infection -- key to knowing how to treat hospital-acquired infections. These are infections that patients acquire during the course of receiving treatment for other conditions. The current test used takes one to four days to yield results. The new one will take a mere four to six hours.

BIRCH team
October 08, 2013 | Department News

King Holmes Receives Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement

King K. Holmes, UW professor of global health and medicine and chair of the Department of Global Health, is the recipient of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 2013 Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award recognizes Holmes’ career in research on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI), and other infectious disease. The award honors Holmes for his major contributions to the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge about infectious diseases.

BIRCH team
October 08, 2013 | Department News

Four Rising Stars from China Arrive to Study Global Health

In a groundbreaking project for UW Global Health and China public health, four rising stars from premier Chinese universities are beginning MPH and PhD studies this month in the Department of Global Health. Separately, two outstanding faculty members from China will also come to UW as Faculty Scholars this winter. - See more at: http://sph.washington.edu/news/article.asp?content_ID=2188#sthash.v6yHYh7b.dpuf

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