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Foege Honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom

We are very excited that William H. Foege, MD, MPH, has been awarded the nation's highest civilian honor. Dr. Foege, former director of the CDC, former senior fellow at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, key architect of polio eradication, and author of "House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox," is also the head of the Department's External Advisory Board and the namesake for our chair in Global Health.

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UW Leads NIH-Funded Consortium to Train Global Health Researchers

The UW is one of five consortia of colleges and universities  to receive funds from the National Institutes of Health to help foster the next generation of global health scientists. The Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars program is building a network of U.S. academic institutions to provide early career physicians, veterinarians, dentists and scientists with a significant mentored research experience in a developing country.

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"Nature Never Sleeps." Nils Daulaire Event on Global is Local

Humanosphere covered the April 3 World Affairs Event moderated by King Holmes, MD, PhD, William H. Foege endowed chair of the Department of Global Health." Many Americans just don’t get it – Global health is a domestic issue. That was the main message last night at Seattle’s Broadway Performance Hall from Dr. Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Join an Online Panel April 2-6: "Integrating Metrics and Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening"

This GHDonline.org Expert Panel discussion, organized in collaboration with Partners In Health in conjunction with the Program Management Guide (http://www.pih.org/library/pih-program-management-guide), will address the ways that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can be used to assess whether, and how well, programs are being implemented as planned and achieving their goals and objectives. Kenneth Sherr, MPH, PhD, Assistant Prof. of Global Health at UW, will be part of the panel.

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Global Health Students in Spotlight

Both Humanosphere and the School of Public Health have great stories on global health students. The School of Public health higlighted some of the Thomas Francis Jr. Global Health Fellows who work across the globe in different disciplines.  Projects have been carried out in more than a dozen countries, from Bolivia to Timor-Leste.

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Peruvian Slum Gets a Massive Green Makeover -- with slide show

Students from different disciplines -- built environments, engineering, climate change, public health -- helped create a garden oasis in one of the largest slums in the world. The creation of green space is the first major project coordinated by UW in the Puente Piedra slum. UW faculty, students and local collaborators are also in the process of building a health clinic and new classrooms.

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Global Health Still Lures Many

Student interest in global health is as big as ever. For the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year, 212 students applied for the MPH program: 133 in the General track, 34 in the Peace Corps track, 28 in the Health Metrics track, 10 in the Leadership track, and seven in the MD/MPH track. The Department will select 25-30 students. For the doctoral program in Pathobiology, at least 74 students applied, and the Department will select between four to seven students.

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UW's Global Emergency Management Plan: Travel Registry and More

Brent Barker, the  Global Travel Security and Information Manager at UW, spoke at a recent faculty meeting on important updates to the University's Global Emergency Management Plan. He said now faculty and staff can be added along with students to a Travel Registry. The registry allows the University to identify and help travelers in an emergency, including sending a message on things like warnings and where to take shelter. During the Japan earthquake, for example, the registry allowed the University to identify 30 students and four faculty.

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New Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children

Applications are being accepted for the Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children this winter quarter and spring 2012. The curriculum of the certificate program is designed to give students a base of knowledge they can draw from when faced with a variety of issues in resource-poor settings. GH/HSERV 544 is the flagstone course in the program and provides a strong base of knowledge from which to build. This class is only offered in winter quarter and there are spots available for the upcoming session.

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