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Most COVID transmission is still asymptomatic
Some 60% of virus spread starts with those who have no symptoms. A cough or sneeze in the checkout line at the grocery store may elicit fear of COVID-19 , but that maskless person quietly sitting next to you on the subway could pose just as much of a...
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Diagnosing Domestic Violence: How Are We Doing? The Culture of DV Screening and Disclosure in an Urban Hospital Setting
This project is a compilation of four years of qualitative, ethnographic, and survey data from a community medicine, women's prenatal clinic addressing domestic violence screening in clinical settings. ...
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COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Life Expectancy Gap Between White and Black Americans
Researchers from the University of Washington looked at the data from death and census records to estimate life expectancy for Black, white and Hispanic Americans over a three-decade span from 1990 to 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic reversed a promising...
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Integrated Next-generation Surveillance in Global Health: Translation to Action (INSIGHT to Action)
This is a five-year project CDC-funded cooperative agreement to conduct a comprehensive assessment of public health surveillance systems, and facilitate the incorporation of next generation approaches including genomics, spatial mapping and modeling,...
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Residents & Fellows
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UW Obstetrician to Study COVID-19 Impacts on Pregnancy (UW Medicine - Quotes Kristina Adams Waldorf)
While pregnant women are included in those thought to be at high risk for COVID-19, not much is actually known yet about the virus' potential impacts on pregnancy. ...
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Lee L. Huntsman
Lee L. Huntsman, External Advisory Board Member, Department of Global Health, University of Washington ...
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Reports: Health problems tied to global warming on the rise
Health problems tied to climate change are all getting worse, according to two reports published Wednesday. “Rising temperatures are having consequences,” said University of Washington environmental health professor Kristie Ebi, a report co-author. ...
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Syphilis Vaccine to Protect against Local and Disseminated T. pallidum Infection.
This proposal unites the vaccine-related studies of several groups to provide a two-pronged approach to develop an effective syphilis vaccine that will protect form appearance of early lesions inhibit treponemal dissemination in the host, thus to...
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UW Breaks Ground on New Population Health Building
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