November 13, 2017
Winter 2018 undergraduate course focuses on population health
The Population Health Initiative has partnered with the University of Washington’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 research. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is open to all interested faculty, students, staff, alumni and members of the community.
The course will meet Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Odegaard Library. The speakers and topics for this quarter are described in the following table.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Department |
| 1/3 | India Ornelas | Introduction to population health | Health Services |
| 1/10 | Ali Mokdad | Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | IHME |
| 1/17 | Ana Mari Cauce | The University of Washington’s population health vision | President |
| 1/24 | Jonathan Posner | Engineering Innovation in Health and Clean Cookstoves Lab | Mechanical Engineering |
| 1/31 | Jennifer Bacci | Community pharmacy’s role in population health | Pharmacy |
| 2/7 | Jacob Vigdor | The Minimum Wage Study | Public Policy and Governance |
| 2/14 | Amy Snover | Developing resilience to climate variability and change | Marine & Environmental Affairs |
| 2/21 | Wendy Barrington | Cancer health disparities | Nursing |
| 2/28 | Mary Fan | Recording the police | Law |
| 3/7 | Jennifer Harris | Undergraduate research panel | Undergraduate Research Program |
This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.