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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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Five UW faculty members elected as AGU Fellows, plus more honors
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New Study Finds People Covered by Universal Health Coverage Will Fall Far Below UN Sustainable Development Goal
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NewsBeat: Antiretrovirals Pose Low Risk to Nursing Mothers, Babies
Study involves researchers with UW International Clinical Research Center ...
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UN Asks Nations to Better Prepare, Cool the Vulnerable As 'Extreme Heat Epidemic' Breaks Records
After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” ...
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Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most
More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
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UW Honors I-TECH Director for Contributions to Lifelong Learning
Associate Professor Ann Downer, a pioneer of distance learning at the University of Washington, has been named winner of the UW's 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award. Ann Downer, a pioneer of distance learning at the...
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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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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...