WGHA’s executive member organizations have been invited to lead our strategic planning efforts.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is devoted to the elimination of cancer as a cause of human suffering
and death. Together with UW Medicine and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson
is the only National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center in the Pacific Northwest. The center is home to
approximately 200 research groups working in four divisions: basic sciences, human biology, clinical research, and
public health sciences. With an annual research budget of nearly $240 million, the center receives more research
funding from the National Institutes of Health than any other freestanding research institution. Fred Hutchinson’s
faculty includes three Nobel laureates and seven members of the National Academy of Sciences.
For more information, please visit www.fhcrc.org
Infectious Disease Research Institute
Founded in 1993, the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) works to identify early scientific leads for
vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. IDRI then develops these leads into products that can be produced in the
countries that need them. IDRI achieves this mission by working closely with industry, universities, hospitals in
both developed and developing countries, government and private funding agencies, and the World Health Organization.
For more information, please visit www.idri.org
Institute for Systems Biology
The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is an internationally renowned, non-profit
research institute headquartered in Seattle and dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. Founded
by Leroy Hood, Alan Aderem and Ruedi Aebersold, ISB seeks to unravel the mysteries of human biology and identify
strategies for predicting and preventing diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS. ISB´s systems approach
integrates biology, computation and technological development, enabling scientists to analyze all elements in a
biological system rather than one gene or protein at a time. Founded in 2000, the Institute has grown to 14 faculty
and more than 250 staff members; an annual budget of more than $35 million; and an extensive network of academic
and industrial partners.
For more information about ISB, visit www.systemsbiology.org.
PATH
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling
communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector
partners, PATH helps provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think
and act. PATH’s work improves global health and well-being.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, PATH has 34 offices in 19 countries. PATH currently works in more than 70
countries in the areas of health technologies, maternal and child health, reproductive health, vaccines and immunization,
and emerging and epidemic diseases.
For more information, please visit www.path.org
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) advances global health through key research discoveries. Founded in
1976, SBRI is the largest independent, nonprofit research institute in the United States focused solely on the world’s
most devastating diseases, including malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. The mission of SBRI’s nearly 200
employees is to conduct targeted research leading to the prevention, diagnosis, and cure of global infectious diseases
responsible for the deaths of 14 million people each year. SBRI’s discoveries have resulted in promising leads
for vaccines and drug targets as well as seminal contributions to scientific knowledge.
For more information, please visit www.sbri.org
Seattle Children’s Research Institute/Global Alliance for the Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth
Seattle Children’s Research Institute believes that all children have unique needs and should grow up without
illness or injury. With the support of the community and through their spirit of inquiry, Seattle Children’s
is working to prevent, treat, and eliminate pediatric disease. Seattle Children’s strives to be a worldwide
leader in pediatric research aimed to improve the health and well-being of people of all ages.
The Global Alliance for the Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) at Seattle Children’s has brought
together a multidisciplinary research team to develop a national and international research agenda that addresses
these global health problems and identifies the most effective interventions.
For more information, please visit www.gappseattle.org
University of Washington Department of Global Health
The University of Washington Department of Global Health was launched in January 2007 with support from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, the state of Washington, and the University with a mandate to harness the extraordinary expertise,
energy, and creativity of faculty across all 17 of the university's schools and colleges to create one of the most
comprehensive academic global health programs in the world. The department has more than 200 students enrolled in
global health programs and more than 100 faculty working on projects around the world.
For more information, please visit depts.washington.edu/deptgh/index.html
Washington State University School for Global Animal Health
With a full 70 percent of human infectious disease originating from animals, preventing the spread of animal pathogens
to humans is a critical component of global health. Washington State University’s new School for Global Animal
Health specifically targets this human–animal interface of global infectious diseases. The school advances
science, people, and policy to discover novel approaches for disease intervention and delivery of preventive health
care for animals and humans. Three interrelated discovery and implementation pathways—emerging pathogen and
disease detection, control of disease transmission from animals to humans, and vaccine development and deployment—merge
across disciplinary lines to seek innovative means of disease control.
For more information, please visit globalhealth.wsu.edu/