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January 22, 2014

Workshop on Health Technology Assessment Policy Formation and Implementation—Second Generation National Health Insurance Reform in Taiwan

Lou Garrison in Taiwan as part of the Workshop on Health Technology Assessment Policy Formation and Implementation. Taiwan is in the midst of its “second generation” national health reform, having made a revolutionary shift to a single-payer system in 1995.  Despite spending only about 6.2% of GDP on health care, like all other health care systems,…


Global Medicines participates in the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium 4th Annual Meeting

June 1-3, 2011 found Andy Stergachis and Becky Bartlein in Maputo, Mozambique for the 4th Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (MiPc) annual meeting. The MiP Consortium is a global research initiative of 47 research institutions, led by the Secretariat based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.  MiPc is conducting a six year program of research to…


Dr. Rulisa in Seattle to collaborate on Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium activities.

Stephen Rulisa, MD, Lecturer, National University of Rwanda, and Gynecologist at Kigali University Teaching Hospital, is pictured with Joseph Babigumira, MBChB, MS, PhD, of the University of Washington’s Global Medicines Program.  Dr. Rulisa was in Seattle to collaborate with Andy Stergachis, PhD and others as part of the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium activities.


Namibia Gets First-Ever Pharmacy Degree Program – with Help from UW

The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services recently took an important step toward reducing a critical shortage of pharmacists in a country where more than 13 percent of adults have HIV/AIDS and have high risks of contracting diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis. Thanks in part to a collaboration with the University of Washington,…



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