October 2, 2018
UW hosting global mental health and sustainable development event on Oct. 19
A special University of Washington and The Lancet event on October 19, 2018 in Seattle will explore sustainable development and global mental health. The event will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. in Kane Hall 225. This event is part of a new Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, which discusses how…
September 26, 2018
Initiative-funded project addressing health disparities in local agricultural communities
A team of University of Washington researchers in medicine, public health and social work are collaborating with agricultural workers in Whatcom and Skagit counties to assess and, ultimately, address health disparities related to occupational, environmental, socioeconomic and biological stressors faced by that region’s rural, underserved agricultural communities. Through a partnership with a local promotorx (community…
September 19, 2018
Understanding why eastern U.S. air pollution levels are more stagnant in winter
New research led by the University of Washington shows why winter air pollution levels in the Eastern United States have remained high, despite overall lower levels of harmful emissions from power plants and vehicles throughout the year. Air pollution occurs when sulfur dioxide from power plants and nitrogen oxides from both power plants and cars…
September 12, 2018
UW Mobility Innovation Center releases report on innovation frameworks for smart cities
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently partnered with the Mobility Innovation Center at UW CoMotion to study six US cities that have been experimenting with innovative approaches to transportation management. The resulting report, “Innovation Frameworks for Smart Cities,” reveals how these cities have solicited new ideas, built outcome- and equity-oriented programs and enacted change…
September 5, 2018
First-year Interest Groups add concept of population health to core curriculum
The Population Health Initiative has partnered with the University of Washington’s First Year Programs to introduce the concept of population health to the approximately 3,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students who join a First-year Interest Group (FIG). FIGs are peer-guided clusters of courses that small groups of students take together during their first quarter at…
August 29, 2018
Recognizing community-engaged research in promotion and tenure guidelines
The Population Health Initiative seeks to bring the university community and partners together in more interdisciplinary and collaborative ways to improve the health of people here and around the world. A potential barrier to realizing this goal is the appearance of inconsistent criteria in recognizing interdisciplinary and collaborative research, teaching, public scholarship, mentoring and community…
August 27, 2018
New IHME study finds health risks for any level of alcohol consumption
A new scientific study from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. This conclusion is due to the study team’s findings of clear and convincing correlations between drinking and premature death, cancer and cardiovascular problems. The study, which is part of the annual…
August 22, 2018
UW researchers support a floating community in the Amazon
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is working to improve the health and living conditions of an impoverished floating community in the Peruvian Amazon by drawing on the expertise of researchers from six different University of Washington departments. From cleaning contaminated water to improving food security, the researchers are implementing innovative interventions to enhance both the…
August 16, 2018
NTU Rankings places the UW fourth among U.S. higher education institutions
The latest NTU rankings place the University of Washington fourth among U.S. institutions of higher education. This ranking is compiled by National Taiwan University and is also known as the “Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities.” It offers annual performance rankings of universities around the world based on their production and impact of…
August 14, 2018
Seven new members named to initiative executive council
Five new faculty and two students have been named to the 30-member Population Health Initiative executive council by President Ana Mari Cauce. They are: Nidhi Agrawal, professor of marketing, Foster School of Business Wendy Barrington, assistant professor of psychosocial and community health, School of Nursing, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology and health services, and faculty…