The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) supports faculty-led initiatives to develop new collaborations and programming with a focus on interdisciplinary and international engagement. Faculty from the UW School of Medicine received a combined $136,890 in award funding:
- Rachel Bender Ignacio, Medicine: Defining the Burden of Undiagnosed and Untreated HIV in Cancer Patients in 3 Countries
- Esther Chung, Pediatrics: Rwanda Health Promotion: Summer Learning Program
- Herbert Duber, Emergency Medicine: UW-AKU Emergency Medicine Exchange Program
- Jeremy Hess, Emergency Medicine: Effectively Managing the Impact of Increasing Ambient Temperatures on Health Outcomes in Kenya Using Trans-Disciplinary Approaches
- Mark Harniss, Rehabilitation Medicine: Disability Inclusive Development Initiative: Building an International Collaborative
- John Lynch and Rupali Jain, Medicine: Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Kenyan Clinicians and Pharmacists
- James Mullins, Microbiology: OmniVerse: A Flexible Database for Tracking Data and Samples From the Bedside, to the Bench, to Bioinformatics
- Barclay Stewart, Surgery and Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Katie Nielson, Pediatrics, and Tam Pham, Surgery and Regional Burn Center: Cookstove-Related BURN Injury Investigations in Nepal and Ghana (BURNING)
- Jody Waldron and Sri Josyula, Medicine, John Harlan, Hematology Oncology: Partnership in Palliative Care
