January 23, 2014
UW Pharmacy Student Completes Advanced Pharmacy Practice Rotation in Namibia
Elise Fields, a fourth year UW pharmacy student, recently returned from an advanced pharmacy practice experience rotation in Windhoek, Namibia, where the University of Washington has a strong institutional relationship with University of Namibia (UNAM), the Ministry of Health and Social Services’ Therapeutics Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre (TIPC), and Management Sciences for Health-Namibia. For this…
Joseph Babigumira receives award from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Global Medicines Program congratulates its newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Joseph Babigumira, MBChB, MS, PhD, on his $96,000 award from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through the Institute of International Education (IIE). The award is to support follow up work from his dissertation research, which examined the costs of induced abortion and potential…
Don Downing and UW pharmacy students lead medical brigade in Honduras
Don Downing has been actively improving student experiences in Central and South America. As highlighted in UW Today on November 16, 2011, Downing mentored and supervised a group of pharmacy and medical students on a medical brigade in Honduras. The article, complete with a slideshow of photos taken, can be found here: http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/pharmacy-students-lead-honduran-medical-brigade In addition, Downing…
UW Global Medicines Program a core partner to MSH’s new Award from USAID
The UW Global Medicines Program is a core partner to a newly awarded cooperative agreement to Management Sciences for Health (MSH) by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This a five-year $197.9 million Cooperative Agreement for the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program follows the current Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS)…
Working to make vaccines safer
Locally, Andy Stergachis contributed to an article entitled “Assessing vaccine safety communication with healthcare providers in a large urban county” published in the Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety online. Stergachis teamed up with the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, Public Health – Seattle & King County and the Washington State Pharmacy Association to survey nearly 300 physicians,…
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