October 30, 2018
Winter 2019 undergraduate course highlights population health research
The Population Health Initiative has again partnered with the University of Washington’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of faculty lectures during winter quarter 2019 focused on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.
The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391) 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 | Unit |
| 1/9 | Jennifer Harris Derek Fulwiler |
Course introduction Introduction to population health |
URP Population Health Initiative |
| 1/16 | Ali Mokdad | The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |
| 1/23 | Adam Drewnowski | Obesity and social disparities in diets and health | School of Public Health |
| 1/30 | Gundula Proksch | Developing sustainable infrastructure for cities | College of Built Environments |
| 2/6 | Rachel Fyall | Homelessness Research Initiative: Understanding housing and food insecurity among UW students | Evans School of Public Policy & Governance |
| 2/13 | India Ornelas | Understanding how social and cultural factors influence the health of Latinx and American Indian communities | School of Public Health |
| 2/20 | Ana Lucia Seminario | REFUGEES Project: Oral health among immigrant populations | School of Dentistry |
| 2/27 | Greg Bratman | Benefits of nature contact to human health | College of the Environment |
| 3/6 | Jennifer Harris and students | Undergraduate research panel | URP |
This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.