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Navigating Hurricane Beryl in Jamaica
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Mask Mandates Are Returning to Schools as COVID-19 Cases Surge
On April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining COVID-19 cases among students and community support for a...
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Global Health Minor Lands Job at Seattle BioMed
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Tumor-specific autoantibodies for SCLC early detection
This project proposes to leverage molecular features unique to SCLC, such as the development of autoantibodies, to validate a plasma biomarker panel capable of SCLC early detection to allow for early initiation of potentially curative chemotherapy. NIH...
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Syphilis microbe’s family has plagued humans for millennia
Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. ...
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Global Health Journalism Class
UW Global Health reporting student Allison Barrett found that Bhutan, rated top on the worl'd happiness index, is not such a happy place for ethnic Nepali citizens. She writes an interesting insight into deaf Bhutanese refugees now living in Kent.
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Reproductive empowerment and contraceptive choice among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: A person-centered approach to unintended pregnancy prevention (The MARA Study)
In this project, we are adapting a validated measure of sexual and reproductive empowerment for the Kenyan context, which we are using in tandem with discrete choice experiment method to better understand adolescent girls’ and young women’s preferences...
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MedPage Today: LEEP Rather Than Freeze to Prevent Cervical Cancer
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place in Seattle in mid-February, a forum for researchers and advocates to discuss the basic science and clinical discoveries of human retroviruses and associated diseases. ...
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Faculty Member Jerry Cangelosi Awarded Commercialization Grant
Researchers led by Jerry Cangelosi (DEOHS, Epi, GH) were awarded a commercialization grant for a health care diagnostic tool. They are developing a product that can detect whether the bacteria present is capable of turning into a serious infection -...
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Dr. Carey Farquhar To Serve as Department of Global Health Interim Chair
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