January 23, 2014
Global Medicines Program featured on Humanosphere
Becky Bartlein was featured as a “Changemaker” millenial to watch and interviewed here. Andy Stergachis was highlighted in an article about the release of an Institute of Medicine Report that he co-authored, entitled “Ensuring Safe Foods and Medical Products Through Stronger Regulatory Systems Abroad” and discussed the dangers of counterfeit medicines here.
Visitors to Global Medicines Program: Drs. Alex Dodoo and Feiko ter Kuile
The Global Medicines Program welcomed two esteemed colleagues over the past week, Dr. Alex Dodoo, BPharm, MSc, PhD and Dr. Feiko ter Kuile, MD, PhD. Dr Dodoo is a pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist and Head of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Ghana Medical School and Head of a new WHO Collaborating…
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…
