The Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health will host a webinar on Thursday, May 16th at 7:00 PM (PT), regarding the parallel health system, organized by the resistance movement in Myanmar. The 2021 military coup and the following ongoing conflicts have devastated the health and healthcare of Myanmar (Burma), particularly in rural areas. However, anti-junta healthcare workers, community-based health organizations, and ethnic health organizations have developed alternative care systems for local communities. The Ministry of Health of the National Unity Government (established in opposition to the junta’s regime) has coordinated the local healthcare providers,

On Tuesday, May 21st from 5:30-7:00 PM, you are invited to a virtual webinar on structural racism in Washington state’s tax code. The racial wealth gap in the United States is a major political and social determinant of racial inequities in health. The structural racism that produces this wealth gap is supported through regressive tax codes and other tax policy throughout the country, including our state tax code here in Washington. CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) is one of the panelists.

The Population Health Initiative invites you and your network to a special lunch and learn seminar that is happening on Tuesday, May 21 from 12 to 1PM at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, Room 101 and Via Zoom. Lunch will be offered for in-person attendees. This event will feature Dr. Joe Wartman, UW Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director of Natural Hazards Reconnaissance (RAPID) Facility. Dr. Wartman’s presentation will be, “Hazards,

CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored an article in Current Environmental Health Reports, entitled “The Environment and Headache: a Narrative Review“. In this narrative review, authors summarize the peer-reviewed literature published between 2017 and 2022 that evaluated ambient environmental risk factors for primary headache disorders, which affect more than half of the population globally. Primary headache disorders include migraine, tension-type headache (TTH),

In spring quarter, CSDE will be hosting a workshop series and several working groups. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to register and we welcome registrants from outside the University of Washington for our remote workshops as well.

Please reach out to CSDE’s Training Director, Jessica Godwin (jlg0003@uw.edu), if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.