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Hotter Nights, Brought on by Climate Change, Pose More Health Threats

Scientific American

University of Washington Department of Global Health Professor and epidemiologist, Kristie Ebi, claims that “If it doesn’t cool down at night, then your core body temperature can’t really get back to what is normal for you. You’re starting the next morning with a higher baseline.” That’s why death rates start to increase after about 24 hours during heat waves. “It’s not the instantaneous exposure; it’s the buildup over the course of a day, not getting relief at night. That starts affecting the cells and organs,” Ebi says.

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RFK Jr. fires ‘Washingtonian of the year’ from CDC vaccine panel

The Seattle Times

Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Helen Chu, went through two years of a rigorous application process to apply to one of the country’s top vaccine advisory panels at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last July, she began what she thought would be a four-year term with the CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. But less than a year later and via a brief and vague email, Chu was abruptly dismissed. The June 9 email didn’t specify why, she said.

 

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Vance, Rubio peddle fiction that 88 percent of foreign aid doesn't go overseas

Washington Post

UW Department of Global Health Professor, Steve Gloyd, had decried what he calls “phantom aid,” in which he said 30 to 60 percent of the total budget of some global health aid projects never even leave the headquarters of the nongovernmental organization hired to manage the program. International NGOs also can inflate the salaries of local staff, draining health ministries of expertise and raising in-country costs.

UW profs push for a ‘NATO’ defense pact — against our own government

The Seattle Times

Abraham Flaxman is a professor at the University of Washington who studies diseases and how they affect global health. Flaxman is also the sponsor of a resolution that passed the UW’s Faculty Senate last week, calling for the UW to join a “mutual defense compact” of Big Ten universities. “That’s what this is — a NATO for higher education.” It passed 52 to 5.

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King Holmes, taboo breaker in study of STDs, dies at 87

Washington Post

“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.”

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