SEATTLE, Sept. 30, 2014 — The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is pleased to announce an incredible milestone: to date, more than a quarter of a million people have been trained with I-TECH support. This total includes:
In Malawi, International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) utilizes Community Mobilizers (CMs), who use interpersonal communication to create demand among males needing Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision services. In order to ease the mobility of CMs within their locales, I-TECH recently donated 10 bicycles to the program. The District Environmental Health Officer for Lilongwe, Mr.
International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) recently partnered on the first randomized trial of educational outreach and continuous quality improvement (CQI) in Africa. The evidence in a new IDCAP Overview article published in PLOS ONE — “Improving Facility Performance in Infectious Disease Care in Uganda: a Mixed Design Study with Pre/Post and Cluster Randomized TrialComponents” — by Dr. Marcia Weaver et al.
Congratulations to International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) for a new article, published in PLOSONE: “Informing Comprehensive HIV Prevention: A Situational Analysis of the HIV Prevention and Care Context, North West Province South Africa,” authored by Sheri A. Lippman, Sarah Treves-Kagan, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Evasen Naidoo, Gertrude Khumalo-Sakutukwa, Lynae Darbes, Elsie Raphela, Lebogang Ntswane, and Scott Barnhart.
The Washington Global Health Alliance has compiled a list of the many efforts going on in the state around containing the Ebola outbreak. For more information, go to the WGHA website.
Seattle, WA - Aug. 23, 2014 – One of the best ways to help a country is to do no harm while helping, argue a consortium of public health researchers, physicians, activists and funders in a comment published in the Aug. 23 edition of The Lancet.
UW researchers contributed to a special supplement in the August issue of Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, about the work of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), a U.S.-funded program to strengthen health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.
New research published today [September 19] in The Lancet suggests that, with sustained international efforts, the number of premature deaths could be reduced by 40% over the next two decades (2010-2030), halving under–50 mortality and preventing a third of the deaths at ages 50–69 years.
The Human Animal Medicine Project is now officially the Center for One Health Research (COHR), residing in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. The Center for One Health Research investigates the health linkages between humans, animals, and their shared environments; including zoonoses, comparative clinical medicine, animals as sentinels, animal worker health, nutrition and food safety, and the human-animal bond.
UW Global Health Professor Kristie Ebi presented Aug. 27 at the World Health Organization conference on health and climate in Geneva.