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…
New study assesses connection between substance use, mental health in college students
E-cigarettes have become widely used by young adults, including college students, over the past decade due to their variety of flavors, addictive properties and targeted marketing strategies toward this age group. The negative consequences of nicotine on physical health are well-known, yet researchers want to understand the connection between mental health and use of e-cigarettes….
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…
November 5, 2024
New UW biomaterials center seeks to fight inequities, reduce disparities
The National Institutes of Health recently granted $10.5 million towards the creation of the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) center, led by the University of Michigan and University of Washington, with a focus on advancing biomaterials research through the recruitment of historically excluded Black, Latino and Indigenous individuals. The proposal applies a concept known as centering…