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January 24, 2014
New Research Coordinator joins Global Medicines Program!
The Global Medicines Program welcomes Gillian Levine, MPH, to the team! Gillian will work on projects including the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceutical and Services program (SIAPS), and the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (MiPc) pharmacovigilance research projects, particularly the Assessment of the Safety of Antimalarial Drug Use During Early Pregnancy (ASAP), and will…
Graduate Student’s Work on Display at the Seattle Center Illustrating Pathways to Global Health
Norio Kasahara, a graduate student in the UW Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program and the Global Medicines Program, was featured in a video at the Seattle Center’s Global Health Experience Exhibit . The exhibit featured videos of students involved in global health projects, and Norio’s project is a medicine safety initiative in Afghanistan. Read more about…
Becky Bartlein off to new adventures in Côte d’Ivoire!
The current research coordinator of the Global Medicines Program, Becky Bartlein, is the recipient of a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship award. She will be located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she will be working under the Ministry of Health in the Institut National de la Sante Publique (INSP) – the National Public Health Institute – starting…
January 23, 2014
Graduate Student Assisting with Pharmacy Management in Afghanistan
Graduate student Norio Kasahara, MPH, has been working for the Urban Health Systems Strengthening Project in Afghanistan as Technical Advisor since 2011, which is funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). One of the project objectives is to develop capacity of sub-national public health department. As the Afghan Ministry of Public Health prioritizes improvement of the pharmacy management,…
Expanded Access to Contraception Provides Economic Benefits to Sub-Saharan African Country
Two papers were recently published highlighting the work of Joseph Babigumira and colleagues on the economic analyses of unsafe abortions and on increasing access to contraception in Uganda. His work used modeling methods to show that unsafe abortions cost the country substantial resources and that providing universal access to modern contraceptives would be highly cost-effective. Recent news stories, such as…
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