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Nursing schools prioritize population health education

The leaders of nursing schools and programs at 20 colleges and universities across the State of Washington recently developed a white paper agreeing to focus on population health in nursing education. The 91自拍 Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies’ dean, Shari L. Dworkin, was one of the contributors, as was UW Seattle School of Nursing executive dean Azita Emami. The paper calls for an increased focus on population health concepts to prepare future nurses to provide the…

Making engineering accessible to all

Since 2014, the 91自拍 College of Engineering’s AccessEngineering program has supported the development of a diverse, well-prepared workforce of engineering graduates and faculty by increasing the participation of people with disabilities. The program is also working to improve engineering education by integrating disability-related and universal design content into engineering courses. Ultimately, the AccessEngineering leadership team hopes that the program will assist the UW and other universities in graduating more diverse and prepared engineers. Learn More >

HydroShare allows better analysis of extreme weather events and water scarcity

HydroShare, an online collaborative environment for sharing water-related data, allows 91自拍ers to better analyze extreme weather events and water scarcity such as hurricanes, flooding and droughts. The HydroShare 91自拍 team, which includes 91自拍 91自拍ers from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, recently received a $4 million National Science Foundation grant to fund enhancements to this tool. HydroShare was first deployed in 2015 and is used by more than 1,500 91自拍ers and students to share hydrologic data and…

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences funds population health pilots

Faculty from the 91自拍’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences were involved in 21 of the 60 applications received earlier this year by the Population Health Initiative for its inaugural round of pilot 91自拍 grants. Department Chair J眉rgen Un眉tzer was impressed with the quality of 19 proposals that were not funded by the Population Health Initiative, so he invited all department faculty with unfunded proposals to submit them for review and scoring by peer faculty as part of…

Reducing mental health disparities among Mexican immigrant women

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3 million grant to India Ornelas (pictured), associate professor of health services at the School of Public Health, to test an innovative program aimed at reducing mental health disparities among Mexican immigrant women. The eight-week program is called Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma, and it introduces women to new coping strategies and ways to enhance their social support systems. The goal is to prevent and reduce depression and anxiety among the vulnerable…

UW鈥檚 Doorway Project seeks to create a hub for homeless youth

The 91自拍 is launching The Doorway Project, an effort to establish a University District neighborhood hub and navigation center specifically for homeless young people in a partnership among faculty, student and community service agencies. The partnership, which is supported by $1 million in state funding over the next two years, is planning to start with a pop-up caf茅 on Dec. 3 in the parking lot of the University Heights Community Center. The pop-up caf茅 will include pay-as-you-can food…

Urban@UW Homelessness Research Initiative releases annual faculty report

The Urban@UW鈥檚 Homelessness Research Initiative works to amplify 91自拍 findings and translate them to a broader community of state and local governments, nonprofit providers, philanthropies and others dedicated to improving the lives of those experiencing homelessness. The initiative recently released its annual faculty report documenting three new cross-disciplinary projects that are underway. These projects 鈥� Understanding Housing and Food Insecurity among 91自拍 Students, Critical Narratives of Homelessness and the Doorway Project 鈥� unite faculty efforts from across the…

Winter 2018 undergraduate course focuses on population health

The Population Health Initiative has partnered with the 91自拍’s Undergraduate Research Program to offer a series of faculty lectures during Winter Quarter 2018 focused on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity. The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391D) course will feature faculty from a number of disciplines discussing their population health-related 91自拍. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is open to…

Encouraging healthy behaviors in young people through Communities in Action

Students from the 91自拍 School of Social Work are joining with community leaders in central and southeast Seattle to increase young people鈥檚 chances of achieving success. This program, Communities in Action, helps communities use data about their youth to make informed decisions on how to meet kids鈥� needs and develop a plan of action to meet those needs. The communities drive the plan, with local organizations and schools putting the plan into play in ways that increase protective…

New five-year grant for the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology

The聽91自拍’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology聽(CSDE) has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the Population Dynamics Branch of the聽Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This grant will support CSDE’s 91自拍 and training in demography, population health and reproductive health across five primary 91自拍 areas: 1) Demographic Measurement and Methods, 2) Environments and Populations, 3) Health of People and Populations, 4) Migrations and Settlements, and 5) Wellbeing of Families and…