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…
IOM Committee on Strengthening Core Elements of Regulatory Systems in Developing Countries
Dr. Andy Stergachis, a professor in the University of Washington’s School of Public Health’s departments of epidemiology and global health, has been named to the Institute of Medicine Committee on Strengthening Core Elements of Regulatory Systems in Developing Countries. The FDA requested that the Institute of Medicine convene a consensus study to assist FDA in identifying the core elements…
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.
Message from the Director
The University of Washington Global Medicines Program was formally launched in mid-2010 as an inter-school, inter-departmental initiative supported, in part, through the Department of Global Health’s competitive process for identifying new, signature programs and centers. Administratively based in the Department of Global Health, the Program is closely affiliated with the faculty and trainees at the…
