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March 4, 2024

Landscape analysis of pregnancy exposure registries in low- and middle-income countries

Overview Many vaccines and drugs hold the promise of reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and infants living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, sufficient information on the safety of drugs and vaccines in pregnant women is rarely available at the time of product licensure or approval. To account for this, active safety…


January 24, 2016

Strengthening Medicines Regulatory Systems Abroad

UW School of Public Health faculty attended the Institute of Medicine meeting held on September 12-13, 2013 in Washington, DC. Titled “STRENGTHENING MEDICINES REGULATORY SYSTEMS ABROAD: ADAPTING MESSAGES FROM RECENT IOM CONSENSUS STUDIES FOR DISEASE CONTROL PRIORITIES, THIRD EDITION”, the meeting attendees included Dean Jamison, Professor of Global Health and Principal Investigator (not pictured) Rachel…


April 8, 2015

Special Seminar by Gerald Dal Pan, M.D.

The Global Medicines Program is pleased to welcome Dr. Gerald Dal Pan, Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, US Food & Drug Administration to campus for a special brown bag seminar. Public Health, Epidemiology and the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Noon-1:00 pm South Campus Center, Room 303 Dr….


March 31, 2015

Disease Control Priorities Network Releases Volume on Essential Surgery

The first volume on global surgery by the Disease Control Priorities Network was released last week at Consortium for Universities for Global Health Cnnual Conference. The effort, which identified essential and feasible surgeries in low resource settings, involved many UW faculty including Joseph Babigumira and Andy Stergachis. To download the volume or read details about the research that…


March 16, 2015

Congratulations to Norio Kasahara

Norio Kasahara successfully defended his dissertation titled “Assessing the Availability, Service Quality, and Price of Essential Medicines in Private Pharmacies in Afghanistan” on March 13, 2015.  Next up – a return to Afghanistan where he is currently the Deputy Director of MSH Afghanistan field office.



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