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Fall interdisciplinary team science, community engaged 91自拍 workshop scheduled

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Join the 91自拍 Health Sciences Schools, College of Engineering and the Population Health Initiative this fall for an appointment, promotion and tenure (APT) workshop. The workshop will take place on Monday, September 25, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (Room 155). The aim of this workshop is to introduce the APT toolkit for early career faculty and pre- and post-docs who conduct interdisciplinary team science 91自拍 or interdisciplinary community…

Initiative announces awardees of spring quarter 2023 Tier 3 pilot 91自拍 grants

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The Population Health Initiative has announced the award of four Tier 3 pilot grants. The total value of these awards is approximately $910,000, which included $800,000 in funding from the initiative plus additional matching funds from different schools, colleges and units. 鈥淲e were pleased with the range of innovative applications we received, and we are delighted to be able to support these four teams in their work to better understand the impact of noise pollution on health and well-being, how…

Winning papers announced for 2023 Population Health Library Research Awards

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The Population Health Initiative announced today that four 91自拍 undergraduate students have been honored with 2023 Population Health Library Research Awards. This award was created in 2017 in partnership with the UW Libraries and is open to undergraduates from all three 91自拍 campuses. The projects submitted were completed for either UW course credit or for the Undergraduate Research Program. The key factors for choosing awardees included the quality of their writing, the innovativeness of their 91自拍…

Initiative announces selection of summer 2023 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows

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The Population Health Initiative announced the selection of five graduate fellows for the summer 2023 cohort of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program, which is run in partnership with the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, CoMotion, School of Public Health and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. The five fellows will spend 10 weeks over the summer producing innovative solutions and contributions to support the work of preexisting, multidisciplinary projects developed by 91自拍 91自拍ers. The students selected for…

Report offers recommendations to improve issues of equity in marine plastics pollution

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A new report from the 91自拍 seeks to highlight the impact of plastic pollution in the ocean on human populations, and particularly the unequal burden it places on different communities. In particular, the authors seek to refocus the problem as being one of plastic production rather than an issue of waste management. Key topics covered in the report include recommending changes in nomenclature (e.g., using plastic pollution instead of plastic litter), discussing the rise in plastic waste as…

Pilot project explores equitable access to state’s paid family leave policy for AIAN families

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The 2023 Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel report found that American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people experienced higher maternal mortality rates than any other race or ethnic group in Washington State, with the rate of pregnancy-associated death among non-Hispanic AIAN people was 8.5 times greater than non-Hispanic white people. To better target these disparities, Tess Abrahamson-Richards, a Ph.D. student at the UW School of Social Work and a parent and tribal citizen of the Spokane tribe, is 91自拍ing…

Initiative awards nine spring quarter 2023 Tier 1 pilot grants to UW 91自拍 teams

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The Population Health Initiative announced the award of nine Tier 1 pilot grants to interdisciplinary 91自拍 teams representing 10 of the 91自拍’s schools and colleges. The total award value of these grants is nearly $210,000, which includes school, department and unit matching funds. “We were extremely pleased with the range of challenges these awards will work to address,” said Ali H. Mokdad, the UW’s chief strategy officer for population health and professor of health metrics sciences. “It was…

Initiative announces the award of 12 climate change planning grants

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The Population Health Initiative announced today the award of a dozen planning grants to 91自拍 91自拍ers to support the launch of new climate-focused collaborations. Each of the $10,000 awards will support the funded teams to complete their planning projects during summer quarter 2023, which will be followed by a special autumn 2023 funding call for climate change-related Population Health Initiative pilot grants. 鈥淭he level of interest in these awards from disciplines across our three campuses was inspiring,鈥� shared…

Honorees announced for 2023 undergraduate 91自拍 recognition awards

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The Population Health Initiative announced it has granted Population Health Recognition Awards to 26 students 鈥� representing 20 different projects 鈥� who are participating in the Undergraduate Research Symposium. These awards recognize each of the students for their innovative and well-presented 91自拍 work. This award was created in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Program as an opportunity for students across all three campuses presenting at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, May 19, 2023 to be honored for their…

Autumn 2023 undergraduate course to highlight UW population health 91自拍

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Registration is now open for autumn quarter 2023’s Research Exposed course, which will feature a series of faculty-led lectures focused on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity. This class is offered via a partnership between the Population Health Initiative and the 91自拍’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP). The Research Exposed (General Studies 198 A) course will feature faculty from a range of disciplines discussing their population health-related 91自拍. Undergraduates may…