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View by Global Health Advancement of Health Disparities Research Center CAHDR participates in and provides leadership to research-based innovations that will reduce health disparities among and within population groups. The Center is a collaborative partnership between the University of Washington (UW) and the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Schools of Nursing that are fostering sustainable mechanisms for scholarship development in health disparities. The Center is mentoring nurse researchers through learning institutes, guided research studies, and dissemination of new knowledge. These mentored nurse researchers are beginning to develop a knowledge base for innovation in health disparities research. AIDS and STD Center (Fogarty) CFAS collaborates with several other institutions throughout the world to provide patient care, research, training and education as well as technical assistance for HIV/AIDS and STD. It has also designed a WHO Collaborating Center for AIDS and STD. Geographic Areas: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Caribbean APEC Emerging Infections Network EINet uses “collaborative tools, such as e-mail and the World Wide Web” to “bridge the broad geographic expanse and diversity of APEC economies, permitting scientists and policy makers to share information and more effectively combat emerging infectious disease through surveillance, prevention, research, and control measures.” Geographic Areas: APEC Member Countries and Pacific Rim Biomedical & Health Informatics BHI is a research and training program that uses “the interdisciplinary and interprofessional aspects of the field” to advance “basic and applied informatics”. Geographic Areas: China Citizen of the World Program COWP “encourages and assists students currently enrolled in a degree program at the University of Washington School of Nursing to seek experiences of immersion in health care and society in a culture very different from their own.” Ecogenetics and Environmental Health Center CEEH endeavors to “foster collaborations” and “catalyze development of multiinvestigator grants” in order to “understand and communicate how genetic factors influence human susceptibility to environmental health risks.” Global Health and Justice Project GHJ promotes discussion of “cutting edge issues presenting ongoing challenges to global health and justice” amongst “leading medical, public health and legal academics and professionals” that will eventually “lead to identifying future areas of research and foster continued multidisciplinary collaboration.” Geographic Areas: South Asia and Southeast Asia

Global Health Department The Department of Global Health is a joint venture of the University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine. The Department is the first joint global health department in the nation and will serve as a new paradigm for focusing inter-professional educational programs, collaborative research, professional service in public health policy and practice and medical care on the goal of establishing sustainable improvements in global health. Global Health Resource Center GHRC is committed to “[coordinating] activities and information about global health education, training, research, funding, employment opportunities and events; [connecting] undergraduate, graduate/professional students, faculty, staff, individuals, communities and organizations; and [catalyzing] opportunities for international, interprofessional collaboration and exchange.” Health and Education Research Center CHER employs multidisciplinary partnerships to “[enhance the] health and quality of life for individuals and communities through education, training and research.” Institute for International Indigenous Health & Child Welfare Research IIIHCWR endeavors to “develop culturally relevant theory and models for research and then translate and test these models through community-based and indigenous programs” through research “education, training, and workforce development of practitioners working in indigenous communities” and “indigenous health and child welfare services.” Institute for Public Health Genetics IPHG “[provides] broad, multidisciplinary training for future public health professionals, [facilitates] research in public health genetics, and [serves] as a resource for continuing professional education.” International AIDS/HIV Research & Training Program International Health Group University of Washington School of Medicine's IHG promotes medical student research and clinical experiences to benefit underserved populations worldwide. IHG aims to accomplish this through educational activities and the development of international research and clinical opportunities. International Health Program IHP “focuses on community health and primary health care systems of the developing world” in teaching “basic principles of public health and to identify social, political, and economic determinants of illness.” International Medical Education (Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics) IME “provides training, research, and service in education and informatics across the

breadth of health sciences and health care” in an effort to “facilitate the development and implementation of international medical education” the IME offers various international research and training programs for UW students as well as visiting faculty and graduate students with a focus on developing countries. Geographic Areas: Africa, Easter Europe, Southeast Asia, China, South America and the Middle East International Research and Training in Health Informatics This program's “goal is to train core professionals for representative regions in health informatics; link health informatics professionals in a nationwide collaborative network in Peru and to strengthen the library and information resource capabilities and accessibility at UCPH partner university” International Scholars in Occupational & Environmental Health ISOEH “[provides] training in occupational and environmental health to scientists and professionals in collaborating countries” and “[maintains] and [reinforces] the strong existing collaborative inter-institutional relationships through training and research.” Geographic Areas: Costa Rica, Thailand, Vietnam, and Nicaragua Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program MIRT “provides support for undergraduate and graduate students to do health-related population-based research and training in developing countries.” Multinational Collaboration and Challenges to Environment / IGERT Funds the University of Washington-Sichuan University Program on Scientific, Engineering and Social Challenges to the Environment, a collaboration between the University of Washington and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China that “[focuses] on five research areas: biodiversity, water resources, forest ecology, environmentallyfriendly eco- materials, and human-environment interaction.” Geographic Areas: South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam Northwest Center for Particulate Matter and Health PM Center conducts research in order to “provide information crucial to understanding and preventing [particulate matter] associated health effects.” Although this research focuses on the Pacific Northwest it can, “together with that of other groups around the world…..contribute to decisions about air quality standards and to the understanding of how we are affected by the air we breathe.” Northwest Center for Public Health Practice NWCPHP links academia with the community in the Pacific Northwest by “[providing] support and training in the areas of environmental health, clinical laboratories, pharmaceuticals, and public health informatics.”

Occupational Safety & Environmental Health Program (Fogarty) Peace Corps Master’s International Program International Health (PCMI) Population Leadership Program PLP “brings together professionals from developing countries to expand their leadership skills, and partners with them to create systemic improvements in population issues, family planning, and reproductive health at the local, national, and international levels.” Geographic Areas: subsaharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America Program on Environment POE “[promotes] interdisciplinary environmental education at the University of Washington (UW). PoE offers an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies, a Minor in Environmental Studies, and two graduate certificate programs. PoE merges the fields of natural sciences; social sciences; law, policy and management; and ethics values and culture through rigorous coursework and hands-on learning within the community to provide a unique opportunity for students and faculty to explore complex environmental issues from multiple perspectives. Geographic Areas: Australia and New Zealand Study of Ethnic Conflict & Conflict Resolution Center The Center studies the causes and effects of ethnic tension and warfare across the world in order better understand ways of bringing about peace. Urban Ecology Research Laboratory UERL “works to understand and improve the conditions of human-dominated ecosystems by conducting interdisciplinary research, integrating analytical and participatory approaches to problem-solving, and engaging policy makers and the public in the generation and use of scientific knowledge.” Women’s Health and Gender Research Center CWHGR investigates culturally diverse populations in order to “enhance understanding of the relationship between socio-cultural environments, women's health and gender” as well as “investigators' capacity to study diverse populations of women in culturally competent ways.”