Population Health

Let’s Talk Pop Health

Image of a presenter speaking to a large group of peopleThe Population Health Initiative is working to amplify population health-related education and training activities across the UW’s three campuses by offering, partnering to offer, and/or promoting a range of events under the banner of, “Let’s Talk Pop Health.”

These offerings are a mix of virtual, in-person and hybrid workshops, lectures, seminars, film screenings, convenings and so forth, with the in-person activities to be held primarily in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health as a means of activating it as the university’s hub for population health.

The current “Let’s Talk Pop Health” offerings for academic year 2024-25 are:

Close: patterns of multimodal access across American cities

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024

12:30 p.m.

Savery Hall (SAV) 409 and virtual
Speaker: Nat Henry, Henry Spatial Analysis

Counting deaths and exposures for period child mortality measures in the DHS

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024

3:30 p.m.4:50 p.m.

Magnuson Health Sciences Center (HST) T-639
Jessica Godwin is a Statistical Demographer and the Training Director for the Demographic Methods Certificate Program with CSDE. I

Novel Class of Unfolding Models for Binary Preference Data

Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024

12:30 p.m.

Savery Hall (SAV) 409 and virtual
We develop a new class of spatial voting models for binary preference data that can accommodate both monotonic and non-monotonic response functions, and are more flexible than alternative “unfolding” models previously introduced in the literature.

Global Mental Health Seminar Series – Shannon Dorsey and Larry Wissow

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025

11:30 a.m.1 p.m.

Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
University of Washington professors Dr. Shannon Dorsey and Dr. Larry Wissow will be in conversation on youth trauma focused interventions. Staff, faculty, and students of all disciplines are welcome!

“Inclusive Conservation: Impact Evaluation Lessons Including for Debt Relief”

Friday, Jan. 17, 2025

Noon1:30 p.m.

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Alex Pfaff
Professor of Public Policy, Economics and the Environment
Duke University

“Disparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change”

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

Noon1:30 p.m.

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
David Konisky
Associate Dean for Research
Lynton K. Caldwell Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University Bloomington

“Harnessing Law and Policy to Reduce Food Waste”

Friday, Apr. 18, 2025

Noon1:30 p.m.

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Emily M. Broad Leib
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic
Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Harvard Law School

“Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”

Friday, May 16, 2025

Noon1:30 p.m.

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Maura Allaire
Visiting Associate Professor
Water Equity Lab | Dept. of Urban Planning & Public Policy
University of California, Irvine

Northwest Nature and Health Symposium

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

9 a.m.5 p.m.

Intellectual House
Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work with the community and decision makers to translate our findings into programs and policies that promote equitable engagement with nature.

Please contact us if you are organizing population health-related events that you would like support in partnering and/or marketing under the “Let’s Talk Pop Health” banner.