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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
Asian Law Center
The Asian Law Center “[teaches] and [researches] global and cross-jurisdictional issues in international governance, institution-building, regulation, commercial transactions and sustainability” with a particular focus on Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Geographic Areas: Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam
Biomedical & Health Informatics
BHI is a research and training program that uses “the interdisciplinary and inter-professional aspects of the field” to advance “basic and applied informatics”.
Geographic Areas: China
Canadian Studies Center (NCR)
The Canadian Studies Center conducts research to expand academic programs in Canadian Studies, bolstering this effort with curriculum development and outreach programs aimed at furthering the development of these studies at all levels of education.
Geographic Area: Canada
China Studies Program
The China Studies Program “provides a broad understanding of the Chinese people and their culture, historical development, and contemporary issues.”
Geographic Area: 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.”
Communication & Civic Engagement Center
Uses research and outreach programs to “understand and facilitate the use of media systems and communication practices” that will promote civic participation at local, national and global levels.
Comparative History of Ideas
CHID
“demonstrates the need to consider intellectual problems from many perspectives” by “introducing students to the interrelation of ideas and society.” In particular, the program is “noted for the ’internationalization’ of undergraduate education, for pedagogical creativity in learner-based methods of teaching and research, for extensive cross-unit collaborations, and for its focus on engaged community learning and public service.”
Comparative Law & Society Study Center
CLASS “[promotes] interdisciplinary research and teaching as well as community service regarding law, justice, and human rights throughout the world.”
East Asia Center (NCR)
East Asia Center
“[advances] knowledge of China, Japan, and Korea through undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty research, and outreach programs for the larger community.”
East Asia Resource Center
The East Asia Resource Center (EARC) provides a wide range of outreach
programming and services to K-12 educators nationwide. EARC offerings for
K-12 educators include one-day workshops, 30-hour seminars, summer
institutes, study tours to Asia, a resource collection, EARC volumes of
curriculum materials, and a quarterly newsletter.
Geographic Areas: China, Japan, and Korea
Ecogenetics and Environmental Health Center
CEEH endeavors to “foster collaborations” and “catalyze development of multi-investigator grants” in order to “understand and communicate how genetic factors influence human susceptibility to environmental health risks.”
European Union Center
The EU Center of Excellence of Seattle is one of the ten original EU Centers funded by the European Commission beginning in 1998. The network of EU Centers promotes the study of the EU, its institutions and policies and EU-US relations through teaching programs, scholarly research and outreach activities.
Geographic Area: European Union
Global Business Center
The Global Business Center “develop[s] global business expertise by hosting and sponsoring outstanding international education initiatives, with special emphasis on Asia.”
Global Engineering & Education Program
Global E3 is an international exchange program designed specifically for engineering students and administered by the Institute of International Education on behalf of participating universities. Students are able to study in any country overseas where there is a participating Global E3 university. More than 50 universities are currently participating in most world regions and new member institutions in new countries are continuing to join the program.
Global Executive MBA Program
Executives from Korea, or others living in Korea, may earn an MBA degree from the UW's Michael G. Foster School of Business and a certificate from Yonsei University.
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, inter-professional collaboration and exchange.”
Global Honors Program (UW Tacoma)
The Global Honors Program
“serves students in all undergraduate majors who wish to enter careers directed toward the real needs of our region and our world at a time when the emerging global economy is transforming our planet” and offers inter alia study abroad scholarships.
Global Local Community Action Institute
GLOCAI “[generates] new research, teaching, and service agendas that capitalize on the interests and passion of faculty, staff, students, and community partners” and “[fosters] new and cross-cutting collaborations within and beyond the university.”
Global Trade, Transportation & Logistic Studies Program
GTTL
uses “interdisciplinary courses” to “engage students on a wide range of transportation issues,” but particularly on “activities involved in the flow of goods from point of origin to point of consumption on a global scale” in order to “[prepare] graduate students for careers that demand the combined knowledge of trade, transportation, and logistics.”
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.”
Hubert Humphrey Fellows Program
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished public service, mid-career professionals from countries across the globe to the United States for one year of non-degree graduate study and practical, work-related experience.
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Center
CIAC seeks to “co-ordinate information and individuals in the Pacific Northwest involved in educational, research, industrial, and governmental aspects of information and cybersecurity.”
Institute for Global & Regional Security Studies
IGRSS
“promotes teaching, research, publication and public outreach at the University of Washington on security issues of regional and global concern to the United States.”
Institute for Inequality and Social Structure
IISS “promotes scholarship and education to reduce health, economic, and social inequalities” in an effort to “generate new knowledge across disciplinary boundaries about the causes and consequences of inequality; to train the next generation of scholars who will advance knowledge about the mechanisms that produce and reproduce inequalities; and to leverage scholarly knowledge in the service of social change.”
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 International Policy / Center for Internet Studies
Employs international partnerships to study how a “global networked society” is created by “the intersection of the Internet and other information and communication technologies with economic, political, and social systems.”
Geographic Areas: Thailand, Australia, China, Korea, and Singapore
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.”
Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief
IPHR “[works] in concert with advisors from various government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to design and deliver state-of-the-art education, research and training in humanitarian relief” with particular emphasis on “the application of information and communication systems and strategic organizational management to humanitarian relief logistics.”
International AIDS/HIV Research & Training Program
International Business & Education Research Center
CIBER “[develops] global business expertise by hosting and sponsoring outstanding international education initiatives, with special emphasis on Asia.”
International Development Policy & Management Program
This certificate program
“fosters a sense of collaboration across disciplines and sectors” in order to better “equip UW graduate students in a variety of fields with the conceptual framework and practical tools needed to become effective development practitioners.”
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
International Studies Center (NCR)
ISP's mission is to create new programs that will produce teachers, government servants, leaders and citizens capable of understanding the complexities, opportunities, dilemmas, threats, and beliefs that characterize the world in the 21st century. Through a myriad of programs and activities, the Center provides resources to teachers, the public, the business community, local media and others while educating students to live and work effectively in the internationalized economy of our region and nation.
International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR) Center
CINTRAFOR helps forest products exports by: Collecting & distributing information on rapidly changing foreign markets, including consumption trends, distribution channels, trading systems, codes/standards & the regulatory environment; Applying research findings to technical, environmental, economic, social & resource management problems that impede exports of specific products; and Training forest products professionals by providing funding for graduate level research on the international trade of forest products.
International Training & Education Center on HIV
I-TECH
“supports the ongoing development of health care worker training systems…in countries and regions hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic” by “[leading] a consortium of international and domestic partners with expertise in diverse areas of HIV/AIDS planning, clinical care, training and support.”
Internet Studies Center
x CIS is an interdisciplinary unit at the University of Washington for the study of the global networked society. The Center's work focuses on the intersection of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) with economic, political and social systems.
Geographic Areas: Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and Africa
Japan Studies Program
Japan Studies Program “offers well-rounded interdisciplinary study of Japan as well as more specialized training in each student's particular area of interest.”
Geographic Area: Japan
Joint Institute for Study in Atmospheric & Ocean
JISAO “supports postdoctoral fellows” by “[providing] space, computer time, administrative support, and other services” as well as by “funding research scientists” in order to advance the research of climate, global environmental chemistry, marine ecosystems, and coastal oceanography.
Korea Studies Program
Korea Studies Program “emphasizes the study of Korea in the context of East Asian civilization and the modern world economy, not simply as a single country in isolation from its neighbors” and “[provides] students with a broad background which will be of use to them in a variety of professions.”
Labor Studies Center
CLS “supports research, teaching, and community outreach” to “[promote] the study of labor in all of its facets – locally, nationally and worldwide.”
Language Learning Center
“provides services and resources that advance language study and instruction for students, faculty, and departments.”
Latin American Studies Program
LAS
“prepares students for challenging, rewarding international careers in many disciplines” by providing “valuable language, research & cross-cultural skills through a rich mix of academic, extracurricular and international study experiences.”
Law of International Sustainable Development
SID graduate
program provides graduate students with “in depth, interdisciplinary training” so that they may “develop an intimate knowledge of global development policies and the legal systems that implement them.”
Geographic Areas: India, China, Indonesia, former Soviet Union, and Africa
Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship
The Center “initiates and supports interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral transnational action learning programs and networks in a range of areas including the transnational studies initiative, growing knowledge on globalization, disasters and relief, managing aging dams for sustainable development, corporate citizenship and new forms of market regulation, mapping and empowering public health networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Geographic Areas: Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Africa, India, and Central America
Middle East Center (NCR)
The Center enables students to “study the region within an interdisciplinary framework, focusing especially on the social, political, economic, and legal structure of the Middle East.”
Geographic Area: Middle East
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, environmentally-friendly eco- materials, and human-environment interaction.”
Geographic Areas: South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam
Nanotechnology / IGERT Center
The Center
“[provides] graduate students with excellent interdisciplinary education experiences in nanoscale science and nanotechnology” grounded in the belief that the “multidisciplinary fabric of nanoscale science and technology requires an intimate marriage of diverse fields, from theory to application, wherein individuals learn from each other, and varied expertise is required to solve common problems.”
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
NELC offers both undergraduate and graduate programs of study. The programs provide training in languages and civilizations of the Islamic Near and Middle East, the Semitic Near East, and Islamic Central Asia. Courses are designed for students planning careers in government service, non-governmental organizations, teaching and in the private sector. NELC supports a number of Study Abroad opportunities in Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Israel, Iran and Turkey.
NTU Singapore Technopreneurship & Innovation Program
TIP endeavors to “stimulate entrepreneurial-minded students' existing creative drive and provide them with the knowledge and experience they will need to launch new products or businesses in today's competitive marketplace” through international collaboration and exchange between the University of Washington and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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 (PCMI)
The UW offers 3 PCMI programs:
Polar Science Center
The PSC [contributes] to [the] understanding [of] the earth's climate cycles with satellite and in situ sensing of ocean winds, currents, and air-sea fluxes. Operated by the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Geographic Areas: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
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
Program on Ocean Governance
POG “[monitors] trends in national and regional ocean governance and will provide a forum for interested parties to discuss topics pertaining to the nation’s oceans and coasts.”
Process Analytical Chemistry Center
CPAC “[addresses] multidisciplinary challenges in Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Process Control through fundamental and directed academic research.”
Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model Program
PRISM “a collaborative partnership among state, federal, tribal, and University leaders” that “[integrates] both cultural and physical systems that operate in Puget Sound” with the “unifying theme” of “the processes and role that water plays in our natural and cultural environment.”
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
RCCS collaborates nationally and internationally to “establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field” of cyberculture studies, and to “foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers and builders of cyberculture” that is global in nature.
Rome Center
The UW Rome Center was used by University students starting in Spring of 1985, and has been used continuously since its inauguration by a growing number of UW programs. The facility provides studios, classrooms, a library and computer lab, student lounge, conference room, administrative office and faculty accommodations.
Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center (NRC)
The Ellison Center is dedicated to “interdisciplinary study of all major post-communist subregions” and to “building long-term, sustainable networks of cooperation with the diverse peoples of the region” to “understand the legacies of the imperial and communist past as well as to analyze the emerging institutions and identities that will shape Eurasia's future.”
Geographic Area: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology
Shidler Center LCT at the University of Washington “examines the roles of innovation, The incentives and competition in transforming domestic and global markets and legal institutions” and “engages in national and international policy debates through active collaboration with local leaders, and recommends balanced strategies for managing the convergence of law and technology in local, national and global arenas.”
Sichuan University Program
The UW-Sichuan Program develops research in the five areas of biodiversity, water resources, forest ecology, environmentally-friendly (eco-) materials, and human-environment interaction through collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
Geographic Areas: China
Simpson Center for Humanities
The Simpson Center is “dedicated to fostering innovative cross-disciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and to stimulating exchange and debate on cultural and intellectual issues.”
South Asia Center (NCR)
The South Asia Center “[promotes] inter-disciplinary study of the region” by providing students with “a strong foundation in languages and elective education focused in humanities, social sciences, or professional fields,” as well as study abroad opportunities.
Geographic Area: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet
Southeast Asia Center (NRC)
The Southeast Asia Center “[offers] language study and courses in various disciplines that focus on Southeast Asia” and “actively organizes…programs such as teacher training, outreach” and a resource library in an effort to advance the study of Southeast Asia.
Geographic Areas: Southeast Asia
Statistics and Social Sciences Center
CSSS
is dedicated to “galvanizing collaborative research between social scientists and statisticians” through “seminars, seed grants and [a] consulting program.”
Studies in Demography and Ecology Center
CSDE
“[focuses] on interdisciplinary research, with an emphasis on understanding the structural mechanisms that link individual behavior to population level outcomes.”
Study in the Earth System Center
CSES
“performs integrated research on the impacts of climate on the U.S. Pacific Northwest by combining and integrating expertise in climate dynamics, ecological dynamics, hydrologic dynamics, and institutional and policy analysis.”
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.
TC & U Twente Program
The UWTC University of Twente Program
enables students to “experience a different culture” and “spend an extended time traveling” while earning credits in the College of Engineering’s Department of Technical Communication.
Technical Japanese Program
TJP “combines study in advanced technical Japanese with graduate-level engineering courses” and enables students to “read technical literature in Japanese and work effectively with Japanese engineers and scientists in a research or business environment.”
Geographic Areas: Japan
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.”
Valle Scandinavian Program
Valle Scholarship and Scandinavian Exchange Program is designed “to promote and fund the exchange of graduate students between the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and programs in the Nordic countries” and “to support outstanding graduate students in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture and Urban Planning” through collaborations with institutions in the region.
Geographic Areas: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark
West European Studies Center (NCR)
CWES “enhances the quality of teaching and research on West European politics, society, and culture through outreach to universities, business, the general public, and the K-12 community.”
Geographic Areas: Western Europe
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.”
Workforce Development Center
CWD conducts national and international research to “[evaluate] the educational and workplace climate for various disciplines,” and applies these findings to programs such as an international exchange program for undergraduates e.g. the Global Alliance Program and Global E3.