The study, called the Global Health Strategic Mapping Project, also found that the global health activities of these nine organizations alone generated employment for 2,323 full-time equivalents in the state and another 2,150 outside of the state, for a total of 4,470 full-time equivalents.

In addition, the organizations’ work involved partnerships with nearly 600 organizations worldwide, including 244 universities and hospitals, 84 government agencies, 60 corporations as well as foundations, multilateral organizations and non-governmental organizations, the study found.

The findings show that the state has become “a nexus for global health,” said Lisa Cohen, director of the Washington Global Health Alliance, a nonprofit which works to support global health efforts in the state and which commissioned the study.

The study also identified more than 160 senior investigators and project managers working in these organizations with expertise ranging from immunology to genomics to biostatistics to drug discovery to international program development.

The study, which was conducted by the consulting firm Berk & Associates, catalogued the work of nine of the Alliance’s members:

Batelle/Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
IDRI, the Infectious Disease Research Institute
Institute for Systems Biology
PATH
SBRI, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Seattle Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, including its Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
University of Washington
Washington State University

The study did not look at the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest foundation which invests substanital resources in global health, nor the activities of the state’s many relief organizations, such as World Vision, one of the world’s largest non-governmental organizations.

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