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Lyda Ebadani
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Global Health Career Week, March 3-8, Is Packed with Great Events
The Department of Global Health has a full week of great events for anyone interested in growing their global health career. Our marquee event is the Global Healthies Award Ceremony on Thursday. We also have a Career Fair with more than 20...
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Personal story leads entrepreneur to launch a startup to improve cancer care in Africa and beyond
Seattle entrepreneur Kingsley Ndoh, a clinical assistant professor of global health at the UW, is driven by the memory of his aunt, who died too young of colon cancer. Since then, Nigeria-born Ndoh has been on a mission to improve cancer care. In 2021...
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Researchers Win $2.7 Million NIH Grant to Reduce Child Mortality in Mozambique
A project by the University of Washington, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human...
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New York Times: Vaginal Ring with Drug Lowers HIV Rates in African Women
A flexible and inexpensive ring that is inserted into the vagina, where it slowly releases an antiviral drug, helped protect African women against contracting H.I.V. from their sexual partners, researchers said Monday in reports on two major studies...
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"Nature Never Sleeps." Nils Daulaire Event on Global is Local
Humanosphere covered the April 3 World Affairs Event moderated by King Holmes, MD, PhD, William H. Foege endowed chair of the Department of Global Health." Many Americans just don’t get it – Global health is a domestic issue. That was the main message...
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Seattle Lung Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE)
The Lung SPORE will tackle three critical barriers precluding meaningful improvements in lung cancer survival rates: facilitation of pulmonary nodule evaluation for lung cancer early detection and screening, lack of effective therapies for small cell...
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Deepa Rao to Speak at White House on HIV Stigma Research
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NIH Awards $9.8M Grant to Research Consortium for HIV Vaccine Development
University of Washington is part of a consortium led by Seattle Biomed to develop a vaccine that would elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. The $9.8m grant from NIH was announced March 10. Other members of the consortium include Seattle...
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U.S. research funding on health effects of climate change inadequate
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