Howard Frumkin, dean of UW’s School of Public Health, is also a scientist who for 15 years has paid attention to health impacts of climate change. He sat for a Q&A recently to characterize the...
The UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences has been at the forefront of the sustainability movement – protecting the environment, prioritizing community members' health, and...
April 25 is World Malaria Day. Last year, 97 countries and territories reported transmission of the disease, represented by 207 million cases, according to the World Health Organization. On the basis...
Safe drinking water is often taken for granted. Turn on the kitchen tap in any home in Seattle and out comes water meant to quench our thirst, rinse our fruits and vegetables, and clean our dishes....
The second imported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome in the United States was confirmed today, May 13, in an Orlando, Fla., hospital. The patient is a healthcare worker from Saudi Arabia. ...
Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist and mayor of Cali, Colombia, is the first winner of the Roux Prize, a new US$100,000 award for using rigorous statistical evidence in designing...
Health Alliance International has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with struggling nations for 25 years. Now it is now taking on one of the most vexing problems – uncoordinated care among nongovernmental...
As the news media has reported, West Africa is experiencing an ongoing outbreak of the Ebola Virus. The first U.S. patient recently diagnosed with Ebola infection in Texas serves as a reminder that...
In 1999, Washington state implemented regulations that largely freed doctors to prescribe opioid painkillers for common chronic conditions such as low back pain, headache and fibromyalgia.
It marked...
Roger Roffman, a UW professor emeritus of social work and former pot smoker, was a sponsor of Washington state's 2012 marijuana-legalization initiaitive.
Legalizing pot is more sensible than...