"Even as medical researchers are making advances and poorer countries are reducing their rates of infections, people in developed nations have grown complacent and allowed gonorrhea, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases to spread again, an expert warns.

Speaking Wednesday to scientists gathered in Toronto for the country’s foremost science honour, the Gairdner Awards, Dr. King Holmes spoke of the need to remain vigilant as he gave fellow researchers a global picture of the fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.

The Department of Global Health is working with the UW in the High School (UWHS) program to offer Global Health 101: Introduction to Global Health, to high school students as early as the 2014-15 school year. Global Health will be the first Department in the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Schools to offer one of their courses to Washington high school students under this program. UWHS courses are taught by high school teachers, and students receive recognition for their work at most public institutions and many private ones.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, who was awarded Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health/ Pfizer Young Investigator Research Award. 

Dr. Ana Langer, the keynote speaker for the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series, 5 p.m. Nov. 7, 2013, at the Husky Union Building (HUB) North Ballroom, is respected worldwide as a leader in using research findings to influence policy and improve the overall quality of health care for women and families.

Dr. Langer, a physician specializing in pediatrics and neonatology, leads the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard, and for the past 25 years, she has been a leading researcher and advocate for the improvement of women’s health.