December 3, 2024
Population Health Initiative helps to catalyze innovative, interdisciplinary research
UW News engaged with three Population Health Initiative projects in celebration of the Initiative’s eighth year in action. Since the Initiative began in 2016, it has funded 227 interdisciplinary projects that have collectively realized a range of positive results.
The projects previewed include an online program that measures a person’s memory and predicts their risk of memory disorders, a “respondent-driven sampling” method utilized to more accurately count the number of unhoused people in King County and a collaborative effort with UW, the Burke Museum and the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC) aimed at offering flood mitigation options to the South Park neighborhood to ensure favorable solutions from the City of Seattle.