study abroad
April 16, 2024
CGHN Travel Scholarships Open Now!
Fieldwork and travel scholarships Applications are due by 11:59 PM PST on May 24, 2024. The Center for Global Health Nursing offers a variety of scholarships and fellowships to help support students’ fieldwork experience in global settings. You can find your own experience, or use the programs offered by the Center for Global Health Nursing…
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…
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…
March 2, 2020
Study Abroad Updates and Travel Resources
The Center for Global Health Nursing works closely with the UW Office of Global Affairs to track students going abroad and ensuring safe travel. We have been getting a lot of questions regarding travel while restrictions are in place. The UW has put together a very helpful FAQ page that is updated daily with new…
January 30, 2020
UW CGHN launches new global internship program with Omprakash
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
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
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
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…
