Global Health Week May 7-11 was well-attended by many students across disciplines and majors. More than a dozen organizations were part of the "Futures in Global Health Day - Career Fair." The "Working Globally, Locally Career Panel" following the Career Fair was moderated by Dr.
More than 750 people from 31 universities and 17 states attended the 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference, “At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health” held on the UW campus April 27-29. One of the highlights of the event was the inspirational keynote talk, "Nothing Less than a Revolution: Why I'm Preoccupied with Inequality, Social Justice and Health," by acclaimed human rights advocate and thought leader Kavita Ramdas, the executive director of a newly launched program on social entrepreneurship at Stanford University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To showcase the work at UW in global health, we ned to collect innovations and activities for visitors to see this summer at the Seattle Center.
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.