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Events and news for the week of April 20, 2009.

Events
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Tuesday, April 21
AIDS Clinical Conference
Reproductive Health and HIV with Jane Hitti, MD, MPH
8 a.m. - 9 a.m., Research & Training Building 109/113

Namaste Nepal (networking event for people who love Nepal)
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., ArtXchange Gallery, 512 1st Ave S.

Wednesday, April 22
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sieg Hall Auditorium, Room 134

Thursday, April 23
Passport to Global Health Celebration at Seattle Biomedical Research
Institute
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Farmer
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Washington State Convention Center

Upcoming: 

*	Phil Borges April 30, 2009 Global Health Discovery Through the Lens
*	Eran Bendavid, MD April 27, 2009 "What can be done with $15 billion?
Evaluation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief"
*	Kenny Gimbel-Sherr, MPH April 29, 2009 AIDS treatment and the Health
Workforce Crisis in Africa: Task Shifting and Quality of Care in Mozambique
*	Gabrielle O'Malley, MA, PhD May 4, 2009 Addressing the 'Demand' Side
of Sex Work: Including Male-Focused Interventions to Reduce the Spread of
HIV/AIDS in Botswana"
*	David Fleming, MD May 4, 2009 "The Pneumococcal Vaccine Advance
Market Commitment: A Look Behind the Curtain of Figuring How to Spend $1.5
Billion"

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Department <http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/deptnews.php>
News
News updates from the Transcending Global Health Barriers Conference, April
3-5 at UW:

*
<http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/a-vaccination-of-hope-agains
t-cynicism.php> "A vaccination of hope against cynicism." A retired
educator's perspective from her first global health conference.
*	Conference
<http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/conference-reflections-lesso
ns-learned.php>  Reflection: Lessons learned from presenters and
participants.
*	More
<http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=uwglobalhealth&aq=
f>  than 10 video interviews from the conference, including several students
attending or showing posters; Chris Elias, president of PATH, Chris Murray,
director of the Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation, Harriet Fulbright,
president of the J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center; Judy Wasserheit,
vice chair of the Department of Global Health; and Wren McNally, coordinator
of the Global Social Entrepreunership Competition at UW.

Click <http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/pressroom.php>  here
for more

 <http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/ghevents_funding.php>
Funding and International Opportunities
Global Engagement Summer Institute  <http://www.mycge.org/> (for
undergraduates)
Voluntarios Bolivia  <http://www.volunteerbolivia.org/> 

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 <http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/ghevents_announcements.php>
Announcements
Cancer Health Disparities <http://cancer.nmsu.edu/conference.shtml>
Conference: Building Bridges to Improve Rural Health, May 27-29, 2009; Las
Cruces, New Mexico; Poster <http://cancer.nmsu.edu/abstracts_posters.shtml>
Abstract Submissions due by Monday April 6, 2009

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 <http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/news_events/newslinks.php> Newslinks
Health news compiled by a variety of sources from UW Health Sciences News &
Community Relations and others. Updated weekly.

Seattle
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2009078934_ruraldocs18m0.html>
Times: Rural doctor shortage called "a crisis" in Washington (Reporting from
Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Seattle April 16-19,
2009)
Associated Press: Glaxo and Pfizer create new HIV drug company
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iuBQSYN-TAGIn4Z6zrL1s4yGz
slQD97JJONG0>  
Seattle Times: State legislators send MRSA-screening bill to
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009037696_mrsa14m.html>
governor 
Puget Sound Business Journal: It's a science - universities in
<http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/13/story9.html>
Washington state seek stimulus funding edge (Mary Lidstrom, vice provost for
research)  
Seattle Times: Electronic medical records will improve health
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009057987_opinc16sarbora.htm
l>  care (Community Health Network  
of Washington) 
Reporting on Health.org: Q
<http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/qa-johnese-spisso-public-hospitals-c
an-reach-more-just-poor> &A with Johnese Spisso: Public hospitals can reach
more than just the poor (VPMA, UW & COO UW Medicine) 
WebMD: Stem cells promising for Type 1 diabetes
<http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20090414/stem-cells-promising-for-type-one-d
iabetes>  
ABC News: Stem cells spur new eggs in ovaries of adult mice
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=7319800&page=1>  
Bloomberg: Education chief to spend billions to
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aXp_0t1dgo_Q&refer=us>
'transform' U.S. schools (UW study  
mention) 
Tacoma News Tribune: About 1,000 job cuts due, says angry UW
<http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/710886.html>  president
(President Mark Emmert) 
Seattle PI: UW to eliminate about 1,000 jobs by May 1
<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405144_uwlayoffs15.html?source=mypi>
(President Mark Emmert) 
Seattle PI: WSU closes the door on applications
<http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/166328.asp>  
Xconomy: Hutch cuts 83 jobs to cope with drop in philanthropy
<http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/04/15/hutch-cuts-83-jobs-to-cope-with-d
rop-in-philanthropy/>  
U.S. <http://www.thesunnews.com/business/story/862887.html>  News & World
Report: AARP study: Drug prices up 
Seattle Times: Invest in biotech opportunity for Washington
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009033606_opinb14wbba.html>
state economy (UW mention)  

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