The Department of Global Health is pleased to announce the upcoming symposium on Global Health for Women, Children and Adolescents on Thursday, November 7, 2013. The Symposium features a full afternoon of speakers and interactive events including a special section for local High School students interested in global health. Please join us!
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Global WACh and the Program for Education and Research in Latin American (PERLA) are pleased to announce a call for abstracts regarding woman, child, and adolescent health research, service, training projects and programs. Select abstracts will be invited to deliver poster or oral presentations at the Global WACh and PERLA Symposium: “Global Health for Women, Children and Adolescents: Making a Difference Across the Lifespan” on Thursday, November 7th, 2013.
Congratulations to Gabrielle O’Malley, PhD, Tom Perdue, MPH and Francie Petracca, PhD on the publication of their article on Training Evaluation Framework and Tools (TEFT) in the journal, Human Resources for Health.
We write to announce that Dr. King K. Holmes, William H. Foege Professor and Chair of the UW Department of Global Health, has decided to step down as chair next year. He will continue to serve as chair until his successor has assumed the chair position. Thereafter, King will continue as an active member of the Department of Global Health faculty.
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
Amy Hagopian, PhD was appointed to serve on the Publications Board of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The appointment is a three-year term, beginning in 2013.
The Fogarty International Center's HIV Research Training Program is issuing 22 awards, including one to UW Global Health's own Dr. Carey Farquhar. Dr.
We are pleased to note that three faculty members of the University of Washington have key leadership positions in Health Leadership International(HLI), Seattle. HLI Seattle is an all volunteer, Seattle-based NGO providing medical education and building health system capacity in the Lao PDR.
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
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