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Why some scientists are pressing the UN to prioritize climate 'tipping points'
While environmentalists are preparing for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai later this month, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is also meeting to discuss its next assessments of the state of global warming. ...
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Sophia Chima
She/Her schima3@uw.edu Year Entered: 2023 Hometown: Nigeria and South Africa Prior Degree and Institution: University of Rochester, NY; BS in Microbiology ...
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Molly Kanagy
She/Her kanagy@uw.edu Year Entered: 2022 Hometown: Albuquerque, NM Prior Degree and Institution: Whitman College: BA in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB) ...
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GeekWire: Melinda Gates on the Importance of Big Data in Global Health
There are many pressing global health issues today. Preparing for epidemics like Ebola, the increasing dangers of climate change, access to medicine and contraceptives, antibiotic-resistant infections — the list goes on and on. ...
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AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat
The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and...
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Public Health Major Evolves into 'Public Health - Global Health' Degree
The University of Washington School of Public Health’s popular public health major has been renamed the “Public Health—Global Health Major” to better reflect its domestic and global competencies. The change, approved recently by UW President Ana Mari...
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Kids from Marginalized Communities Are Learning in the Hottest Classrooms
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Vision, Mission & Values
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Sonia Rao
Data Project Manager, Global WACh ...
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Ban Homeless Encampment Sweeps During Winter
Unsheltered homelessness is a public health catastrophe. Homeless people are dying daily in King County and Seattle, it’s getting worse, and it’s preventable. Providing shelter or housing sufficient for all unsheltered people is an essential step to...