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January 30, 2020
UW CGHN launches new global internship program with Omprakash
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The UW Center for Global Health Nursing (CGHN) is excited to announce a new partnership with Omprakash, a Seattle-based global education nonprofit, which will increase study abroad opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate-level UW nursing students. Omprakash works with organizations around the world to create internships where they need help the most. They created the…
January 23, 2020
Exploration Seminar: Health Services Delivery in Resource Poor Settings in Guatemala
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Application Deadline: January 31, 2020 (Applications will be accepted until February 15 on a rolling basis) Dates: June 22 – August 21, 2020 (in Guatemala July 31- August 15) This intensive service-learning course, conducted in partnership with a community-based organization, Guatemala Village Health, is designed to expose students to the policy contexts in which health…
Exploration Seminar: La Dolce Vita – Comparative Food Systems in Italy
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Application Deadline: January 31, 2020 Dates: 6/25 – 7/23/2020 La Dolce Vita: Comparative Food Systems in Italy is a 4-week intensive program exploring sustainable food systems in Italy using systems thinking and a variety of perspectives to understand how factors, such as culture, policy, diet, and market structure, interact to create environmental, economic, health, and…
Exploration Seminar: Health Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake
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Applications Due: February 15, 2020 Dates: 8/23-9/13, 2020 The 9.1 magnitude 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful recorded in the world. The subsequent tsunami resulted in over 15,000 deaths and 6,000 injuries. Today, over 2,500 people are still missing, and 5,000 are…
October 7, 2019
CEO of Partners in Health, Sheila Davis, to Visit UW
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November 14th, 2019 at HUB 250 Poster viewing 2:30 – 3 pm, Presentation 3 – 4 pm Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer at Partners In Health (PIH). Previously, she served as Chief of Clinical Operations and as Chief Nursing Officer, where she oversaw nursing efforts as well as supply chain, medical informatics, laboratory, infrastructure, and quality…
Two SoN Students Part of Population Health Initiative’s 2019 Applied Research Fellowship
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Two School of Nursing students were part of the Population Health Initiative’s 2019 Applied Research Fellowship. Jane Kim (DNP Student) and Michelle Shin (PhD Student) spent 10 weeks during the summer to analyze the maternity and infant wraparound services provided by First Steps to low-income individuals. To learn more about their findings and more about…
August 22, 2019
Kathy McCarty Visits From Chidamoyo
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The Center for Global Health Nursing and the School of Nursing are pleased to welcome Kathy McCarty as she visits University of Washington School of Nursing on September 12th and 13th. She will be speaking about “Practicing Health Care in a Rural Zimbabwean Setting” at 11 am – 12 pm on Thursday September 12th in HSB T661, immediately…
August 21, 2019
Global Health Nursing Course
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Registration time is upon us, and we are pleased to offer NURS 581: Global Health Nursing again this Autumn Quarter. This course has been designed by Co-directors, Sarah Gimbel and Pamela Kohler, to explore the health provider perspective and will give students an overview of global health equity. Instructor Sarah Gimbel will lead the class in…
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