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December 30, 2024
UW-led study reveals disparities in suicide rates among young Asian Americans
A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that suicide rates among young Asian Americans (ages 15-24) vary significantly between different ethnic subpopulations, suggesting that low rates in some groups might be hiding high rates in others. Dr. Anthony L. Bui, the study’s lead author and an acting assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University…
December 18, 2024
Initiative, Buerk Center co-host third annual Sacia Digital Health Innovation Workshop
For the fourth year in a row, a cross-campus collaboration between the Foster School of Business’ Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and the Population Health Initiative offered students an immersive and hands-on opportunity to workshop new solutions in the growing and dynamic field of digital health. Approximately 30 undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of…
December 16, 2024
Initiative and Buerk Center co-host an Innovation in Women’s Health panel
Students gathered in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in October 2024 for a panel event focused on Innovations in Women’s Health. This panel event was a partnership between the Population Health Initiative and the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership program (WE Lead). The panel event set out to highlight the crucial…
December 12, 2024
UW research finds racial and gender bias in AI tools ranking job applicants’ names
The prevalence of Artificial Intelligence-use in the job market is staggering: applicants are now using artificial intelligence bots to apply for thousands of job listings, and employers are writing job descriptions and evaluating resumes using the latest AI large language models. Despite the potential for increased efficiency and potentially less discriminatory hiring practices, new University…
December 10, 2024
Designing better methods to help female athletes train to prevent, recover from injuries
The popularity of women’s sports has increased substantially in the last year, but higher risk of injury continue to create disparities between male and female athletes. Several common injuries particularly impact women’s sports, with ACL tears found to be two to eight times more common for women than men in the same sports. Jenny Robinson,…
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…
November 27, 2024
Boeing Innovation Challenge brings UW student teams together around sustainability issues
The inaugural 2024 Boeing Innovation Challenge featured students teams across all three University of Washington campuses working together to develop technology proposals and business cases that integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning with one of the six goals highlighted in the “2023 Boeing Sustainability Report, Innovation & Clean Tech.” The challenge began in April with…
November 20, 2024
Spotlight: Gregory Valentine, a neonatologist, collaborator and innovator
Most days, Dr. Gregory Valentine wishes he had more than 24 hours to realize his goal of overcoming health disparities amongst newborns around the world. Valentine recently found himself in Africa for two weeks to follow up on his Prevention of Developmental Delay and Xylitol (PDDaX) trial in Malawi and develop a neurodevelopmental program that…
November 13, 2024
Research sheds light on air pollution in nail salons, need for increased regulations
The strong scent of nail polish that permeates nail salons has been linked to a variety of health effects experienced by the workers who inhale it, according to new research from a University of Washington faculty member. Diana Ceballos, a UW assistant professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, recently co-authored a study published in…
November 7, 2024
Awardees of autumn 2022 Tier 1 pilot research grants report final project outcomes
Nine interdisciplinary University of Washington project teams were awarded Population Health Initiative Tier 1 pilot grants in autumn quarter 2022. Each of these teams were working to lay an interdisciplinary foundation for future projects in areas ranging from perinatal health to the impacts of climate change to generate proof-of-concept. Each of the funded projects has…
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