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UW Program Delivers Hope for Better Maternal Health Care
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Lessons in the Fight Against AIDS (U.S. News - features Jared Baeten)
As countries look to accelerate progress in ending their HIV epidemics, examining other countries, cities and regions that have seen significant success in their responses may provide road maps to achieving this type of success elsewhere. ...
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Seattle Parties to Help ‘Mobile Moms’ in Timor-Leste
The Seattle organization Health Alliance International at UW, which recently launched a Mobile Moms text messaging service aimed at improving maternal health in Timor-Leste, is the beneficiary of the funds raised by the event’s ticket sales ...
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Improving the Health of Women and Girls Living in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
While significant progress has been made in improving the lives of women and girls over the past two decades, far too often addressing “women’s health” in low- and middle-income countries is still equated to improving their reproductive health. In...
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Making Health Measurable: IHME Press Conference with Bill Gates
Bill Gates, co-founder of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at a press conference March 5, 2013 on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 put the study in historical perspective: “ In fact, in the health world, I’d say there were kind of three...
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Global Health Interest Group and Journal Club
The Global Health Interest Group (GHG) is made up of medical students committed to creating opportunities to engage in global health activities. They plan and execute seminars, panels, socials, and a journal club, and advocate for awareness around...
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Two UW researchers named AAAS Fellows
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The climate crisis will amplify the UK’s existing health inequalities
The health inequalities between different ethnicities, neighborhoods and social classes are already stark, with millions of women in the most deprived areas in England dying almost eight years earlier than those from wealthier areas. ...
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Wildfire Smoke Increases the Risk of Contracting Covid-19
As the world warms, disasters collide. That’s happening right now, as health experts warn that exposure to wildfire smoke across North America increases the risks of catching COVID-19 and worsens the impacts for people who already have or are...
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Department Alumnus Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Maria I. Echavarria Mejia’s (MPH in Leadership and Policy Management, ’13) work on social networking sites was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on health and health care in the...