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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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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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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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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...
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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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Ron Craig
Fiscal and Program Specialist, CFAR ...
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DGH Funding Application for International Fieldwork Due Soon
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Disease Control Priorities Project (Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting)
This is a research consortium that seeks develop new methods and tools for priority setting in health and builds on the Disease Control Priorities Network investment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The current secretariat for the consortium is...
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The death rate for children has dropped dramatically. Yet there's cause for alarm
Around the world, the death rate of children has been dropping dramatically. But a new study in The Lancet Global Health points out an underlying tragedy among the childhood deaths that do occur today. Too many are coming after children have been...