INTRODUCTION

GH 401/501/402/502 weekly seminars feature guest speakers who introduce students to current issues and professional perspectives in global health. Class discussions help prepare students to explore international health issues and multidisciplinary approaches to international health work. Undergraduates are encouraged to enroll as are graduate and professional students.

GH401/501 and GH402/502 feature different lecturers and are meant to complement each other.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS 

VIRGINIA GONZALES, MSW, MPH, EdD,  is the Senior Advisor for PMTCT for the University of Washington International Training & Education Center on HIV (I-TECH). She has worked on Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS  activities in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Kenya, and the Caribbean.  Dr. Gonzales has been a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine since 1993.  She has been working in the area of HIV/AIDS since 1989.  She was based in Nepal and New Delhi, India while working with the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS serving as the health education specialist for the South East Asia Region. She has worked in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Maldives Is., Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.  She has coordinated STD/HIV/AIDS counseling workshops in the Maldives Islands, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Peru and has facilitated a support group for drug- addicted HIV infected men.  Dr. Gonzales has an educational background in Social Work and Public Health, and a Doctorate in Education with a focus on Counseling and Consulting Psychology.

Dr. Gonzales received her Masters degree in Social Work and Public Health from UC Berkeley, and a Doctorate in Education with a focus on Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University.

DAREN WADE, MSW, received his MSW in 1994 from the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Health and work with communities, organizations and administration.  Mr. Wade has experience as a career counselor, social worker and student services professional.  Mr. Wade has been working in the fields of international education, multicultural education and student services for over 10 years with experience at the American Friends Service Committee, Hostelling International, University of Pennsylvania, Reed College and the University of Washington.  As the program coordinator for the University's Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program (2000-2003), he gained experience working with student placements in Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Zimbabwe. 

Currently Mr. Wade serves as the Director for the GHRC within the Department of Global Health and provides administrative support for the Puget Sound Partners for Global Health Training and Education program, www.pspgh.org.  He also is the adminstrator for the International Health Opportunities Program, the International Health Electives Program, the International Medical Student Exchange and two School of Medicine courses in global health and tropical medicine.   Mr. Wade also maintains a GHRC website, www.uwghrc.org and a listserv which coordinates information on global health activities, funding sources and education.  Through the GHRC, Mr. Wade also coordinates events focused on global health such as the biennial Western Regional International Health Conference. 

Past instructors include:

JOSEPHINE ENSIGN, ARNP, MPH, DrPH is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, School of Nursing at the University of Washington. Dr. Ensign has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1995, with adjunct appointments in Womens Studies and Health Services . She has worked as a primary health care clinician with homeless, HIV-affected, immigrant and undocumented persons in the US and internationally since 1984. She has worked in Venezuela and Thailand, mainly with groups working on health and legal issues of street children. Dr. Ensign has an educational background in medical ethics, nursing, health services research, and international health. Dr. Ensign received her MPH and DrPH from the Johns Hopkins School of  Hygiene and Public Health, in the Department of International Health.

ELAINE JONG, MD, is an expert in the field of Travel Medicine, a medical specialty which focuses on the health of international travelers, covering vaccine-preventable diseases, recommendations for malaria chemoprophylaxis, travelers' diarrhea, tropical and parasitic infections, environmental hazards, and unique risks of traveling and working in less developed and remote areas of the world.  She has been an invited lecturer at distinguished conferences all over the globe, from Shanghai to the jungles of Peru. Dr. Jong is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Washington and was the founding Director of  the UW Travel and Tropical Medicine Service in the ER, and theUW Travel Clinic at Hall Health Center.