February 16, 2017 | Health News
Forbes: Perspectives From Inside The Climate Change-Human Health Conference That Rose From The Dead
By Marshall Shepherd
February 16, 2017 | Health News
STAT News: At a Resurrected Climate Conference, Concerns Loom that CDC Scientists May Be Silenced
By Max Blau
Organizers of a conference on public health and climate change urged policy experts and policymakers to mobilize in the wake of a new administration they say has denied the impact, and even the existence, of global warming.
February 15, 2017 | Health News
Devex: What Drives the Gates Foundation's Global Health Work? Data.
By Catherine Cheney
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, upset some health officials when he asked six or seven years ago about the possibility of performing autopsies on babies to figure out why they were dying.
February 14, 2017 | Health News
Humanosphere: Experts Meet to Address 'Urgent' Climate Threats to Public Health
Environmental health experts are gathering at the Carter Center in Atlanta this week to openly discuss the public health response to climate change, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled the event last month over what some said were fears of running afoul of the U.S. president.
February 13, 2017 | Health News
Infectious Disease Advisor: Achieving Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in HIV-Infected Infants
By Linda Peckel
Infants living with HIV whose viral loads are suppressed by antiretroviral therapy (ART) are more likely to partially recover developmental milestones but with persistent deficits, compared to uninfected infants, according to an African study published in BMC Pediatrics.
Sarah Benki-Nugent, Assistant Professor of Global Health at UW, led the study through the UW Kenya Research and Training Center with collaborators at UW and University of Minnesota.
February 11, 2017 | Health News
GeekWire: Melinda Gates on the Importance of Big Data in Global Health
There are many pressing global health issues today. Preparing for epidemics like Ebola, the increasing dangers of climate change, access to medicine and contraceptives, antibiotic-resistant infections — the list goes on and on.
One thing that is essential to addressing all these issues is data, and the state of data on global health isn’t so great.
February 10, 2017 | Health News
The Guardian: Epidemic of Untreatable Back and Neck Pain Costs Billions
Low back and neck pain is an increasingly widespread and expensive condition worldwide, costing the US alone $88 billion a year – the third highest bill for any health condition – despite evidence most treatments do not work.
February 10, 2017 | Health News
Humanosphere: Podcast with Dr. Patty Garcia
In a new Humanosphere podcast, Dr. Patricia (Patty) Garcia talks about her recent appointment to become Minister of Health in Peru. Garcia is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, was head of the Peruvian National Institute of Health and Dean at the school of public health for Cayetano Heredia University in Lima. As Garcia describes in this interview, she became a doctor because of some personal struggles with illness, her own as a child and her father’s death from cancer.
February 09, 2017 | Health News
Devex: Global Health Leaders Call for Teamwork
By Catherine Cheney
Margaret Chan, outgoing director of the World Health Organization, is urging greater collaboration among global health organizations in the face of a challenging political environment in the United States.
February 08, 2017 | Health News
Seattle Times: Trump’s Immigration Order Sends Ripples of Worry Through Tech Industry
By Matt Day
President Trump’s executive order Jan. 27, which barred entry into the U.S. for citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations, created chaos at airports, sparked opposition from business leaders and Washington state elected officials, and raised the prospect that changes to guest- worker programs might be similarly chaotic.