The just-released School of Public Health 2013 Annual Report highlights many Department of Global Health collaborations across campus, such as the Human-Animal Medicine Project (Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH); the HOPE (home-based partner, education) project that tests mobile messaging for pregnant women in a Nairobi slum (Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, and Global WACh or Center for Woman, Adolescent, and Child Health); and the expansion of the START (Strategic Analysis, Research & Training) program (Lisa Manhart, MPH, PhD, and Judd Walson, MD, MPH). It also notes several awards, including:
- Canada’s prestigious Gairdner Award in Global Health for King Holmes, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department;
- Washington State Pharmacist of the Year Award for Andreas Stergachis, MS, PhD, Director of the Global Medicines Program;
- Applied Social Sciences for Public Health/Pfizer Young Investigator’s Research Award for Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the International Clinical Research Center;
- UW University Lecture Award to Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH, Associate Director of Curriculum for the Department;
- University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award to the Partners in PrEP team at the International Clinical Center for work on a massive study looking at the efficacy of using an oral antiretrivoral-based prevention, called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, to substantially reduce HIV infection risk.
Also, nine new global health faculty appointments were also highlighted: Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, DPhil (HIV); Mohammad Forouzanfar, MD, PhD (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation or IHME); Michael Hanlon, PhD (IHME); Renee Heffron, PhD (HIV); Bernardo Hernández Prado, DSc (IHME); Hideki Higashi, PhD (Disease Control Priority Network or DCPN); Pamela Kohler, MPH, PhD (HIV); Marie Ng, PhD (IHME); Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH (One Health); and Theo Vos, MD, PhD (IHME).