- PATH (Program for Appropriate Technologies for Health) is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been transforming the world of global health and is headquartered in Seattle.
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute is the nation’s largest private non-profit research organization focused on infectious diseases.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute is the world center for coordinating HIV AIDS vaccine trials.
- UW is a world leader in infectious disease research and has created a Department of Global Health joining faculty from medicine and public health