Centers, Programs and Initiatives | University of Washington

Department of Global Health

The Department has 25 centers, programs, and initiatives (CPIs) working on improving health in more than 130 countries around the world through research, capacity building, and training.

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Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

The UW Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness The UW Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness offers a proactive approach to pandemics that addresses the root causes of pandemic risk and accelerates effective action by working with partners in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to achieve sustainable impact at large scale. The Alliance builds on the resources of our incredible scientific community and the leadership role that the University of Washington has taken in response to COVID-19 at local, national and international levels. Co-led by Judy Wasserheit, MD, MPH, and Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH.

Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is an NIH-funded infrastructure program that advances the prevention, detection, and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS by fostering collaborative and interdisciplinary research, supporting career development in early-stage investigators, and providing cutting-edge core support to researchers and scientists at our affiliated institutions. CFAR members include more than 550 UW and affiliated faculty, research scientists, and predoctoral and postdoctoral students. Led by Jared Baeten, MD, PhD.

Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE)

The Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations across UW’s schools and colleges to promote systems-based approaches to help communities prepare for, cope with, and adapt to a changing climate. Led by Jeremy Hess, PhD.

Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)

Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN) promotes evidence-based priority setting to inform policy and improve resource allocations for health in low-and-middle-income-countries, through the publication of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition, and direct engagement with policymakers, health professionals, academic organizations, and researchers. Led by Dean Jamison, PhD, and Charles Mock, MD, PhD.

Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh)

Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh) is a joint effort among the UW departments of Global Health, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology. The center makes scientific discoveries, cultivates leaders, and bridges disciplines to advance the tightly connected health and well-being of women, adolescents, and children. Led by Grace John-Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD.

Global Injury and Violence Prevention Initiative

Global Injury and Violence Prevention Initiative works to increase capacity for injury control research, training, and interventions globally. Learn more about the graduate certificate. Led by Charles Mock, MD, PhD.

Global Medicines Program

The Global Medicines Program works to improve the access, use, safety, quality, cost-effectiveness, and affordability of medicines in low and middle-income countries. Led by Andreas Stergachis, PhD, BPharm.

Global Mental Health Program

The Global Mental Health Program is a regional, interdisciplinary forum for research, training, and service-related activities to address gaps in the implementation of effective global mental health interventions. Led by Pamela Collins, MD, MPH.

Health Alliance International (HAI)

Health Alliance International (HAI) is a UW-affiliated, non-governmental organization that engages in program implementation, research, and evaluation to strengthen government primary health care and foster social, economic, and health equity for all. HAI consists of roughly 150 field staff in Mozambique, Timor-Leste, and Côte d’Ivoire, and 29 staff at headquarters in Seattle. There are currently 29 DGH faculty members with active HAI engagements, led by James Pfeiffer, MPH, PhD.

Health Economic Impact Studies for Translation (HEIST)

Health Economic Impact Studies for Translation (HEIST) facilitates the integration of health economics into global health research and implementation with the overall goal of building efficient programs that maximize health benefits. Led by Joseph Babigumira, MBChB, PhD, Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, DPhil, and Carol Levin, PhD.

Implementation Science Program

The Department of Global Health is a leader in implementation science and its Implementation Science Program involves a growing array of research and educational activities that span across the Department’s centers, programs and initiatives (notably the Center for AIDS Research Implementation Scientific Working group, HAI, I-TECH, and the Kenya Research Program). Led by Bryan Weiner, PhD, Kenneth Sherr, PhD, MPH, and Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD.

International Clinical Research Center (ICRC)

International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) conducts a wide range of intervention-based and observational studies with 100+ collaborators across multiple U.S. and international institutions. Co-led by Connie Celum, MD, MPH, and Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, with a biorepository of over 2.5 million specimens, directed by Jairam R. Lingappa, MD, PhD.

International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH)

International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is a global network that works with local partners to develop skilled health care workers and strong national health systems in resource-limited countries. I-TECH promotes local ownership to sustain effective health systems. We are a center in the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health with nearly 2,000 worldwide staff in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the United States. I-TECH works with partner organizations to support the development of health work forces and health delivery systems. Led by Pamela Collins, MD, MPH.

Kenya Research and Training Center (KRTC)

The Kenya Research and Training Center (KRTC) provides an academic forum to support both trainees and investigators in the planning, implementation, analysis, and presentation of research conducted in Kenya. Led by Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, and Scott McClelland, MD, MPH.

Program in Education and Research in Latin America (PERLA)

Program in Education and Research in Latin America (PERLA) encourages interdisciplinary research, training, and implementation activities, and provides a forum to bring faculty, students, and community members together to improve the health and well-being of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. Led by Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH.

Strengthening Care Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE)

Strengthening Care Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE) improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and prevents new infections through partnership with medical and faith communities dedicated to outreach, education, and training. Led by Microsoft alumna Nancy Andrews in partnership with Judd Walson MD, MPH.

Center for One Health Research (COHR)

The Center for One Health Research (COHR) investigates the health linkages between humans, animals, and their shared environments; including zoonoses, comparative clinical medicine, animals as sentinels, animal worker health, food safety, and the human-animal bond. Through transdisciplinary partnerships, COHR develops innovative strategies for healthy coexistence between humans and animals in sustainable local and global ecosystems. The COHR is housed within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.

Afya Bora Fellowship in Global Health Leadership works to fill an identified gap in training for African and U.S. health professionals. This innovative 12-month fellowship prepares African and U.S. health professionals to lead and manage major health programs in African countries. Led by Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH.

The Chinese Universities Global Health Partnership is supported by the China Medical Board, and facilitates collaboration between the Department of Global Health and select Chinese universities to strengthen their capacity in global health. UW offers a program of MPH and PhD training for students and individualized mentoring for faculty scholars, as well as opportunities to engage in collaborative research in low and middle income countries for participating faculty and students. Led by Judith Wasserheit, MD, MPH, and Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH.

East Africa Diploma Course in Tropical Medicine is an exciting, three-month training course on tropical medicine and global health for physicians and other qualified health professionals. It is the only course of its kind in East Africa, and represents a collaboration among five institutions with long-standing expertise in tropical medicine: Johns Hopkins University, Kilimanjaro Medical University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Makerere University, and the University of Washington. Led by Paul Pottinger, MD, DTM&H, and Christopher Sanford, MD, MPH.

The Global Health E-Learning Program (eDGH) develops, implements, and assesses e-learning programs for Department of Global Health courses, as well as grant-funded projects developing health care workforce and institutional capacity.

Fogarty Northern Pacific Global Health Fellows is an 11-month clinical research training program in one of seven international collaborating countries (Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Peru) for post-doctoral trainees and doctoral students in the health professions, sponsored by the Fogarty International Center in partnership with several National Institutes of Health institutes and centers. Led by Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH.

International AIDS Research and Training Program (IARTP) was established in 1988 and works with collaborative research institutions in Kenya to provide advanced training in HIV research, focusing on improving the HIV care cascade and promoting implementation science research. Led by Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, John Kinuthia, MMed, MPH, and Elizabeth Bukusi, MMed, MPH, PhD.

Kuskaya is a joint interdisciplinary training program for innovation in global health between the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru) and the University of Washington funded by the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Peruvian and U.S. trainees work in inter- and multidisciplinary teams in Peru to address communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as health systems. Led by Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH, and Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH.

The Partnership for Health Research Training in Kenya (PHERT) trains junior faculty from the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University and Maseno University in research skills, mentored research and mentored grant writing to build a pool of scientists able to address Kenya’s health challenges in HIV/AIDS, Maternal Newborn and Child Health and Mental Health. Led by, Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH.

Strategic Analysis, Research & Training (START) Center uses an innovative mentorship model to provide high-quality analysis and research support to public health organizations while developing applied research and analytic skills of graduate research assistants in global and domestic public health. Led by Judd Walson, MD, MPH, and Ann Duerr, MD, PhD, MPH, and Stephen Hawes, PhD.

Treatment, Research, and Expert Education (TREE) is dedicated to addressing the health needs of people living in resource-limited settings through quality medical care, academic research, training, and education. Through local partnerships in Kenya, Vietnam, and around the globe, TREE offers a multi-faceted approach

The Department of Global Health partners with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation for the Master of Public Health Metrics and Evaluation track, and the PhD in Global Health: Metrics and Implementation Science programs. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is dedicated to improving health for everyone worldwide by improving health evidence. IHME provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. Led by Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil.

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