Policy makers and practitioners are increasingly seeking to understand the extent of the impacts of climate change on health, the magnitude and pattern of projected risks, and possible effective mitigation and adaptation solutions. This Personal View offers recommendations to increase the policy relevance and usefulness of projections.

Jason Daniel-Ulloa, associate teaching professor in the Departments of Health Systems and Population Health and Global Health, has been awarded the University of Washington’s Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award. Presented as part of the UW’s 2025 Awards of Excellence, the honor recognizes full-time faculty who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to teaching and designing courses in non-degree programs that serve professional development, personal growth, and career transformation.

The Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) is a team of researchers, teachers, and practitioners that uses their expertise to incorporate climate change resilience into public health. Their research focuses on topics such as heat, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, nutrition, wildfires and air pollution, mental health, injuries, and waterborne diseases.

Springtime at the UW is more than just cherry blossoms and baseball games. In the School of Public Health, it is also Career Month. While students have access to career development services throughout the year, the events and workshops available in April feature public health experts, including SPH alumni, allowing students to connect with them in group and individual settings. For the DGH Alumni Chats event, DGH alumni took the time to participate in 1:1 virtual chats with DGH MPH students to answer questions, reflect on how DGH prepared them for their jobs, and share some advice. 

Each year the Husky 100 program selects UW juniors, seniors, graduate and professional students from across all three campuses who are making the most of their Husky Experience. This year DGH is proud to announce the following students: Priyanka Shrestha, Morgan Aurelio, and Ananditha Raghunath.

“I had visions of working on exotic tropical diseases, such as malaria and hemorrhagic fevers,” said Dr. Holmes, who died March 9 at his home in Seattle at age 87, “but this was the most common problematic infectious disease facing the Navy at the time.”

He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention.

In studying sexually transmitted infections at a time when research on the topic was almost nonexistent in the U.S., Holmes became a world-renowned pioneer in demystifying the field. Holmes was 87 when he died Sunday in Seattle.

Healthcare workers at the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health in Zimbabwe were dismissed from their jobs shortly after executive orders pausing foreign aid.

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. University of Washington public health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi weighs in.