UW Department of Global Health Chair Stresses Health Inequities

Nov 13, 2024 - Heidi van Rooyen began her new role as Chair of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington School of Health on October 1. For the last three decades she has led, with distinction, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver impactful bio-behavioral-social research on COVID, HIV and AIDS, health and sexual and reproductive rights through a mix of public health, health systems, implementation science, intervention and policy research. She will lead the department in advancing their work on decolonizing global health, as the department explores how to be a more equitable partner from the Global North working with communities in the Global South.