University of Washington Bothell

“Gender-based violence is the last thing they will think about”: a qualitative study on multilevel factors affecting gender-based violence screening and response in HIV care, Uganda, 2023

Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) adopted the World Health Organization’s guidelines to incorporate routine gender-based violence (GBV) screening, counseling, and referrals in health care settings, including HIV care; however, considerable implementation barriers exist. This stud...

GRAIN: Mapping the World's Irrigation Canals and Why It Matters for Water, Food, and Climate

Abstract The engineered channels that carry water from large dams and rivers to agricultural fields, known as irrigation canals, are the link between source (lakes and reservoirs) and sink (farmlands). These canals make cultivation of crops possible across millions of hectares of...

Long-Term Follow-Up for Newborn Screening: A Roadmap and Guide With Programmatic Considerations

Long-term follow-up (LTFU) systems for newborn screening (NBS) are essential for evaluating access to care, outcomes, and treatment barriers. Following screening, infants with confirmed diagnoses are followed by care providers, but local, state, and national systems to assess out...

A comprehensive assessment of tandem repeat genotyping methods for Nanopore long-read genomes

Tandem repeats play critical roles in human disease and phenotypic diversity but are among the most challenging classes of genomic variation to measure accurately. Long-read sequencing has the potential to accurately characterize long and complex tandem repeats. While an increasi...

Engaging Black and Latinx Communities in Building Capacity for Behavioral Health

Introduction: COVID-19 affected nearly every aspect of people’s lives worldwide. In the United States, the consequences of closures and quarantine increased stress, worry, isolation, and mental health and substance use problems, leading to behavioral health (BH) problems. These c...