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Population Health Initiative Announces Summer 2020 Applied Research Fellows
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UW Research in Clinical Medicine Ranked No. 2 Globally
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Q & A WITH AMY LU
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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Planting More Trees In Cities Could Slash Summer Heat Deaths, Study Finds
Planting more trees in cities could cut the number of people dying from high temperatures in summer, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal on Tuesday, a strategy that could help mitigate the effects of climate change as it...
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Q&A with Mame Mareme Diakhate
Research Assistant, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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Climate Change Poses Health Risks. But It's Hard To Fight When State Policy Ignores It.
Florida illustrates how the politicization of climate change has thwarted efforts to tackle the problem. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted. ...
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UW Doctor Awarded Global Women's Health Fellowship
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Call for Abstracts: “Global Health for Women, Children and Adolescents: Making a Difference Across the Lifespan”
Global WACh and the Program for Education and Research in Latin American (PERLA) are pleased to announce a call for abstracts regarding woman, child, and adolescent health research, service, training projects and programs. Select abstracts will be...
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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. ...
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Climate Change is Supercharging California Heat Waves, and the State isn’t Ready
“We have a real challenge in front of us in how to get people to understand,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington. “Yes, you’ve been through heat waves before. But these heat...