Harvard Dental School Partners with Center for Spring 2019 Course
The University of Washington (UW) spring elective course Global Oral Health (DENTEL 520A) has featured interactive lectures, guest speakers, and immersive team-based projects to teach students about global health inequities and the burden of oral disease worldwide. Read more about »
Center for Global Oral Health Awarded NIDCR CFAR Supplement Grant for HIV Study
In May 2019, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Office of AIDS Research awarded the University of Washington (UW) Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health an administrative supplement grant to support the continuing research collaboration between the DeRouen Center, the UW Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and the University of Nairobi (UoN). Read more about »
Oral Health Under the Spotlight at UW Inter-CFAR Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium in Kenya
On February 1st and 2nd 2019, hundreds of researchers attended the Inter-CFAR Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium in Machakos County, Kenya. CFAR (the University of Washington/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research) and the National Institutes of Health sponsored the Symposium. Read more about »
NIDCR supports UW School of Dentistry’s Global Oral Health Symposium
The National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded the Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health with a grant to support its first symposium in global oral health. The symposium takes place July 31 on the University of Washington campus. Read more about »
UW oral health center wins grant for Africa HIV research
The University of Washington’s Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health has received a grant to support research on African children and adolescents exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Read more about »
Timothy A. DeRouen named an AADR Fellow in 2018
Timothy A. DeRouen, Professor Emeritus of Global Health, Oral Health Sciences, and Biostatistics, has been named one of the three recipient of the 2018 Fellows Program by the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) along with Susan Herring (UW) and Jeffrey W. Stansbury (University of Colorado). Read more about »
New Oral Health Fogarty Fellowship: 12-month global health program in Peru
Our DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health is partnering with the Global Health Fellows for a 12-month clinical research training fellowship program in Peru. Read more about »
2 students to be honored for community service
Second year dental students, Jessica Latimer and Marcus Hwang, have been selected by the University of Washington School of Dentistry to receive the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. Read more about »
DeRouen Center team members honored for achievements, community service
UW dental students Marcus Hwang and Jessica Latimer, who are serving on projects for the Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health, have been recognized for their exceptional academic achievement and community service. Read more about »
Sunstar award supports Kenyan HIV project
Dr. Ana Lucia Seminario is the recipient of the 2017 Sunstar Americas, Inc. Research Prevention in Oral Health Award for her team’s research proposal titled “Integrating oral health into the pediatric HIV care continuum: Baseline data of oral and systemic inflammation.” Read more about »