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Population Health Initiative calls on expertise from across UW

WEBT he immigrant and refugee community in South Seattle is medically underserved and has some of the most negative health outcomes for women and infants, according to King …

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Genome sciences, bioengineering combine forces at UW’s newest …

WEBWhen William H. Foege, ’61, went to a remote area of eastern Nigeria to give disease vaccinations, a local village chief offered to get the word out to everyone nearby.

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UW program delivers hope for better maternal health care

WEBMost pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, the CDC points out. The public health agency also notes that while underlying health conditions contribute, so do the social …

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Diet and disease: Mapping and combating health disparities

WEBIs obesity coming to a neighborhood near you? If your home is in King County, Adam Drewnowski can tell you. The director of the UW Center for Public Health Nutrition looks …

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Front and center

WEBFront. and. center. With compassion, innovation and empathy, public health leader Patty Hayes strives to make life better for all of us. P atty Hayes became a household name …

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Mental-health needs have Washington in a state of crisis

WEBT he state’s mental-health crisis came to national attention in 2018, when Washington’s largest mental hospital, Western State, lost both its federal certification and $53 million …

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UW Medicine alum opens a lifestyle medicine-focused

WEBWhen she started medical school at the UW in 2006, Margaret Towolawi was the only Black student in her entering class. She graduated in 2010, finished her family medicine …

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UW’s Chris Murray pushes strong medicine for global health

WEBMurray is often on the world stage when it comes to global health issues, such as during the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Left to right: Murray, Norway’s …

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Despite a rich history, UW struggles to enroll Black medical students

WEBHis degree put Elam, ’57, on a career path to Meharry Medical College, a historically Black medical school in Tennessee. His successes included establishing Meharry’s …

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Health-care pioneer George Counts has spent career battling …

WEBA passion for public health A passion for public health A passion for public health. Health-care pioneer George Counts has dedicated his career to battling disease and inequities. …

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Doctoral student sees ‘forgotten’ people in public-health data

WEBI n March 2021, Horacio Chacón Torrico arrived in Seattle to begin his second year of graduate studies at the UW School of Public Health, after two quarters completed …

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New UW School of Medicine building opens its doors in Spokane

WEBS pokane is home to a new 86,000-square-foot center for health sciences, medical education and innovation. The first three stories of the building, which holds its grand …

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Population health building named for renowned doctor Hans …

WEBI t’s not as bad as we think. And, with a bit of effort, it could be even better. Hans Rosling, a renowned Swedish doctor and professor of international health, was always making …

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Nursing leader Pam Cipriano honored with UW’s top alumni award

WEBThe heart of health care The heart of health care The heart of health care. Through public health crisis, nursing leader Pam Cipriano, ’81, has delivered doses of hope and …

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Young people are struggling; schools need our help to support them

WEBA ll across Washington state and the nation, our children and young people are feeling despair at levels never seen before. In 2021, 19% of eighth-grade students said they …

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UW’s focus on holistic education is reshaping childhood learning

WEBA s any teacher will tell you, there’s more to education than just academics. Sure, it’s important to teach students multiplication, how the respiratory system works and that the …

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Research aims to better understand weight-loss surgery

WEBAbout 60 percent of the American adult population is overweight with 25 percent of those fitting into the obese category. Public health officials expect obesity to grow to 40 …

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UW Bothell global public health class visits villages in Guatemala

WEBStudent Leylani Blanco demonstrates how to take blood pressure measurements to health promoters and lay midwives. She was among 10 undergraduates and six master of …

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The puzzle of aging: UW experts are piecing together new ways to …

WEBThough she recently retired, Nancy Fugate Woods, dean emerita of the School of Nursing, has simply moved her work to her dining room table. She continues to collaborate on …

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Anti-Communist firings linger on UW’s conscience 50 years later

WEBJane Sanders, ’71, ’76, who did her doctoral dissertation and later a book (Cold War on the Campus) about the UW during this period, believes Allen felt trapped between “the …

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Gregory Boyington, ’34, was UW’s ‘Black Sheep’ hero

WEBThere aren’t many UW alumni who win the Medal of Honor, write a best-selling book and have Robert Conrad portray them in a TV series. In fact, there is only …

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