May 2, 2019
Initiative awards 2019 graduate student conference travel funds
The Population Health Initiative today announced the funding of 16 Graduate Student Conference Travel Awards. A total of 30 applications were received for these awards, which are intended to further the academic, research or professional goals of graduate students as they strive to become the next generation of leaders in population health.
Funding requests of up to $1,500 were accepted from graduate and professional students on all three UW campuses who were currently enrolled in a degree program and had been accepted to present a population health-related paper, poster or exhibit, or to serve as an invited speaker, at a conference, symposium or other professional and academic meeting.
The 16 awardees span a range of disciplines and areas of research interest, as the following table notes.
| Name | Department | Conference |
| Angela Liu | Global Health | International Health Economics Association 2019 Congress |
| Annie Doubleday | Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences | National Environmental Health Association Annual Education Conference |
| Dennise Drury | Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences | International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health |
| Elizabeth Brouwer | CHOICE Institute (Pharmacy) | ASHEcon |
| Hilary Wething | Evans School | Western Economic Association International |
| Jamaica Robinson | Epidemiology | Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting |
| James Buszkiewicz | Epidemiology | Society of Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting |
| Jasmine Kaneshiro | Nursing | 2019 Annual Institute – Association of Community Health Nursing Educators |
| Jennifer Velloza | Epidemiology | IAS Conference on HIV Science |
| Kate Causey | Global Health | International Society for Environmental Epidemiology |
| Lisa Dirks | Information School | MAI ki te Ao Indigenous Doctoral Gathering & Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference |
| Maayan Simckes | Epidemiology | American Society of Criminology |
| Mahika Rangnekar | Global Health | 14th International Conference on HIV Treatment and Prevention Adherence |
| Meagan Brown | Health Services | Critical Participatory Action Research 2019 Summer Institute |
| Michael Cork | Global Health | Spatial Statistics 2019: Towards Spatial Data Science |
| Rachel Shaffer | Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences | International Society of Environmental Epidemiology |
Please visit our funding page to learn more about these awards.