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No big raise? Maybe health insurance is to blame
https://alumni.globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2023/03/29/no-big-raise-maybe-health-insurance-blameWhile the costs of health insurance have increased, this hasn’t resulted in increased value for employees. Deductibles have increased from $545 to more than $3,000, or 3% of household income before insurance starts paying for services. ...
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Adriane Berman
Training Program Manager ...
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How we talk about monkeypox could protect lives
As if we didn’t have enough contagious viruses to worry about, monkeypox is now the latest unwelcome term to enter our daily lexicon. Even before we learned about the first U.S. cases of the disease in May, the way the European outbreak was framed by...
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Global WACh Announces New Scientific Priorities
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Climate change could introduce humans to thousands of new viruses
Epidemiologists have focused a huge amount of attention on hunting down the moment those viruses made the interspecies leap. Which bats? When? But there’s another, broader question to be asked: Why do certain mammals bump into each other at all? And are...
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Evaluating peer-mediated assisted partner services among people who inject drugs in Kenya: delivery, cost and budget impact
This Mentored International Investigator proposal leverages the ongoing prospective cohort study on assisted partner services among people who inject drugs in Kenya and their sexual and injecting partners (R01 DA043409; MPI, Carey Farquhar/Joshua...
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Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says
Earth has pushed into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study. ...
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Pediatric HIV reservoir determinants and consequences
The proposed study will examine HIV reservoir clonal dynamics in early- and late-treated CHIV, specifically evaluating the role of CMV infection, and will evaluate how the reservoir contributes to long-term neurocognitive outcomes.Primary collaborators...
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The Seattle Times: Gates Foundation gives $279 million to University of Washington
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is once again shattering donation records at the University of Washington, this time with a $279 million grant to continue and expand pioneering programs that measure health around the globe. ...
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Andrew McGuire
Affiliate Associate Professor, Global Health ...