global health

February 13, 2025

Go Global! March 14th, 2025

Date: Friday, March 14 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Location: Health Sciences Education Building Room 101 RSVP HERE The University of Washington School of Nursing Center for Global Health Nursing invites you to join us March 14 at 12:30pm for our annual event. This year’s event theme will focus on women’s health and will include a catered…

January 19, 2024

Nursing Experiences in Peru

The UW School of Nursing’s Engagement in Iquitos, Peru: 2016 – Present  The School of Nursing, has been collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of UW and Peruvian researchers in Iquitos since 2016 with support from generous donors, including the estate of Barbara Wyman. UW SON students first began coming to Iquitos as part of…

November 15, 2022

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Kaboni Whitney Gondwe

Hometown: Malawi Degrees: PhD in Nursing (2018), Doctoral Certificate in Global Health (2018), Master of Science in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration (2012), Certificate in Midwifery (2009), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2007), Certificate in Global Health Nursing (2006) Department: Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing Research/Areas of Interest: Health equity, health disparities in…

June 14, 2021

Student Spotlight – Michelle Shin

Name: Michelle Shin Hometown: Los Angeles Degrees: MSN, MPH, PhD-c Department: School of Nursing Research/Areas of Interest: Cervical cancer prevention How did you get here? Why nursing? I studied international development studies at UCLA, which was then a new major that combined foundational classes in history, anthropology, economics, and sociology. I…

January 26, 2021

Frontiers of Global Health: Exploring the Ethics of Phased COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

On January 19, 2021, the Center for Global Health Nursing, with moderator and DNP Student Tyler Breier, hosted a panel of leaders engaged in the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. We welcomed four leaders from different disciplines to discuss the challenges and the ever evolving ethical discussions of vaccine distribution on a wide scale. Panelists…

December 11, 2020

New Undergraduate Disaster Management, Risk Reduction, and Health Course

This Spring, the UW School of Nursing will be offering a new undergraduate course designed for all pre-health NURS 215: Disaster Management, Risk Reduction, and Health. Disasters affect the health of individuals and populations locally and globally. As the current COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted, nurses and health care workers are integral to the critical first…

December 10, 2020

Global Month 2020

Global Health Nursing: From Training to Practice November 10, 2020 This year, as part of UW Global Month hosted by the Population Health Initiative, the Center for Global Health Nursing (CGHN) asked nurses in global health to share their experiences going from training to practice. Many students ask us what skills a nurse needs to…

December 7, 2020

Faculty Spotlight: Sarah Iribarren

Name: Sarah Iribarren Hometown: Basin City, Washington Degrees: BS Biology, Spanish, BSN, PhD, Certificate in Global Health Department: Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Research/Areas of Interest: Treatment support, infectious disease self-management (with a particular focus on tuberculosis), mobile health/telehealth, informatics How did you get here? Why nursing? Growing up in a rural setting…

June 16, 2020

Letter from the Directors

Dear UW Nursing Students & Faculty, Thank you all for a memorable academic year. This year took many unexpected turns. The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted our resilience as a school and community. It has also demonstrated the stark inequities in our community, in our region and country, as well as around the world, specifically for Black, Indigenous, and…

April 1, 2020

Graduate Certificate in International Humanitarian Response

The Population Health Initiative is accepting applications for the Graduate Certificate in International Humanitarian Response program. The certificate is intended to provide University of Washington graduate and professional students from a variety of disciplines with an integrated body of study to better support prevention, mitigation, response and recovery from crises to assist those affected by…