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Five UW faculty members elected as AGU Fellows, plus more honors
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Q&A with Crystal Chhan
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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How King County's Newest Park Fits Into A Plan for Extreme Heat
The Glendale Forest near South Park is an example of the types of urban places becoming more important as climate warming continues. A study from the UW is referenced, and Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of...
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Dr. Carey Farquhar To Serve as Department of Global Health Interim Chair
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Developing Family Medicine in Tanzania
Currently Aga Khan University has the only Family Medicine residency in Tanzania. The partners are working together as a Family Medicine Working Group to create a strong Tanzanian Family Medicine program to serve the countries needs. The Ministry of...
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Study reveals diabetic retinopathy affecting more people than previously estimated
A new study found that 9.6 million people had diabetic retinopathy in 2021, which is about 30% higher than previous research had predicted. The eye condition that can cause vision loss and blindness in people with diabetes. ...
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Expanding and Scaling Two-way Texting to Reduce Unnecessary Follow-Up and Improve Adverse Event Identification Among Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Clients in the Republic of South Africa
This prospective, randomized control to step-wedge trial in high-volume facilities providing VMMC in RSA in collaboration with Aurum Institute aims to test an interactive, two-way texting (2wT) intervention from Zimbabwe in the RSA rural and urban VMMC...
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Dengue antigen design for a safe effective vaccine
The focus is to design a set of antigens that drive the immune response in such a way that severe secondary disease of Dengue is avoided. Severe secondary infection disease is driven by a failed antibody response in part due to the ineffectual nature of...
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New RSV vaccines are on track to make this one of the last bad cold seasons
All over the country, pediatric hospitals are packed to the gills. Although soaring rates of several cold viruses are to blame, one baddie in particular is responsible for much of the mayhem: respiratory syncytial virus, otherwise known as RSV. ...
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Q&A with Tanvi Arkatkar
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...