Nature offers a special supplement on Parkinson’s disease online for free for a limited time. USAID offers free courses on global health.
Two-hour forum on reforming U.S. global health practices was held in Seattle Thursday will be available online.
In the news: driving under the influence of prescription drugs; federal funds boost community health clinics; and Whatcom County “super rice” goes global
Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson asks: Have women and children’s health issues really been neglected in global health policy and agenda-setting? And if so, how?
Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson covers a talk by Dr. Jonathan Fine, a leading physician activist, on the inequities of development in India.
Should global health programs focus more resources on “non-communicable” diseases like heart disease and cancer, which now kill more people than infectious diseases?
Worldwide, child mortality is down, but the U.S. does far worse than most of the rest of the developed world, writes Seattle global health reporter Tom Paulson
Few noticed that a flurry of grant awards given out this week from the Gates Foundation signaled a shift in this direction, writes Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson
More needs to be done to guarantee that drugs in the developing world are safe and effective, writes Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson
Seattle Global Health Blogger Tom Paulson casts his skeptical eye on two recent articles on global health funding.
Mortality of rates for adult Americans are now worse than they are in all of Western Europe and even such low-income countries as Chile, Tunisia and Albania.
Tom Paulson blogs about former PEPFAR head Mark Dybul’s ideas about moving away from “disease-specific” projects to more comprehensive efforts.
Health and science blogger Tom Paulson reports from the UW’s War and Global Health conference
Virus kills more than 500,000 children a year worldwide.
Initiatives of just nine organizations involve nearly 500 programs in 92 countries.
[ November 5, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Washington Global Health Alliance invites you to its Global Health 101 session on influenza:
Influenza: here today, gone tomorrow?
If you hesitate to attend WGHA events due to a lack of global health knowledge, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute’s Global Health 101 provides a perfect primer for your understanding of global health concepts and vocabulary.
Influenza has received a [...]
Washington Global Health Alliance invites you to its Global Health 101 session on influenza.
Hilton Foundation selects Seattle-based PATH to receive the foundation’s $1.5 million Humanitarian Prize.
Stillbirth and prematurity are responsible for more deaths of children under age 5 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
Gates gives $255 million to $630 million polio eradication push
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International for its Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
The Rotary will match the Gates grant with $100 million raised by its own members over the next three years.
In addition, the United Kingdom will give [...]
[ December 3, 2008; 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ]
Learn about opportunities to get involved in global health and global development projects here in Washington state at a Wednesday evening event sponsored by Global Washington, a coalition of Washington state nonprofit organizations, corporations, small businesses and academic institutions interested in promoting global development initiatives.
Global Washington Press Release:
Celebrate with Global Washington
PLEASE JOIN GLOBAL WASHINGTON ON WEDNESDAY, [...]
Learn about opportunities to get involved in global health and global development projects here in Washington state at a Wednesday evening event sponsored by Global Washington, a coalition of Washington state nonprofit organizations, corporations, small businesses and academic institutions interested in promoting global development initiatives.
Global Washington Press Release:
Celebrate with Global Washington
PLEASE JOIN GLOBAL WASHINGTON ON WEDNESDAY, [...]
[ December 1, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]
Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery.
The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80% and is credited with [...]
Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery.
The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80% and is credited with [...]
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s Regional Leadership Conference last month focused on the region’s growing role in global health initiatives.
Representatives of the Washington Global Health Alliance, an organization of local nonprofit organizations, foundations, university programs and businesses involved in addressing global health problems, addressed the Chamber, describing the scale of these challenges and scope of [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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