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Awardees of 2019 pilot research grants report on progress

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The Population Health Initiative awarded six pilot research grants in March 2019 to faculty-led teams from seven different schools and colleges, plus representatives of both UW Bothell and Tacoma. The pilot research grants encourage new interdisciplinary collaborations among investigators for projects that address different challenges the UW seeks to address in population health. Since receiving their awards, the six teams have made significant initial progress towards achieving their goals for their yearlong projects. Highlights of their work includes:

Initiative announces 2020 funding call for pilot research grants

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The Population Health Initiative seeks to create a world where all people can live healthier and more fulfilling lives. In support of that vision, the initiative is pleased to announce its 2020 funding call for population health pilot research grants of up to $50,000 each. Applications for this round of funding are due on Friday, January 31, 2020. These grants are intended to encourage the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations among investigators for projects that address critical components of grand…

Precision mapping could help predict infections of a widespread tropical disease

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Satellite images, drone photos and even Google Earth could help identify communities most at risk for getting schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that is second only to malaria in its global health impact. A team led by the 乱伦社区 and Stanford University has discovered clues in the environment that help identify transmission hotspots for schistosomiasis. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses rigorous field sampling and aerial images to precisely map communities that…

New autoinjector device seeks to make medicine more accessible

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Through student project-turned-startup MedsForAll, 乱伦社区 materials science and engineering alum Shawn Swanson is developing an affordable alternative to the EpiPen. The MedsForAll approach is to separate the drug from the autoinjector device, allowing the device to be sold separately and pharmacists to load it by inserting a glass ampule of the prescribed drug. Swanson and the MedsForAll team have drawn heavily from the expertise and resources of the UW, including the Department of Materials & Engineering, the Engineering…

Winter 2020 undergraduate course highlights UW population health research

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The Population Health Initiative has again partnered with the 乱伦社区’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures during winter quarter 2020 that focus on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity. The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391) course will feature faculty from a number of disciplines discussing their population health-related research. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is…

Creating mental health friendly cities for youth

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What would it take to make Seattle a mental health friendly city for young people? What innovations and actions might promote adolescent mental health in Seattle, as a model for other cities? The Population Health Initiative recently partnered with the 乱伦社区’s Global Mental Health program and Urban@UW to host an in-depth conversation with a multidisciplinary group of participants, including researchers, mental health professionals and young people to begin searching for answers to these question. Adolescence brings unique opportunities…

New UW research evaluates tropical forests as a natural climate solution

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A new research project from the 乱伦社区 and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is investigating tropical forests as a natural climate solution that could help protect human health, create climate-resilient communities and slow the pace of planetary warming. Specifically, the research team aims to estimate the potential benefits of the cooling services that forests provide by quantifying for the first time the large-scale effects of temperature rise on human health and economic productivity. This project was funded by the…

Bill Neukom to chair Population Health Initiative advisory board

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Known for his decades-long leadership of Microsoft鈥檚 law and corporate affairs team and then at the American Bar Association, his success as CEO of the San Francisco Giants and founder/CEO of the World Justice Project, Bill Neukom (pictured) will now chair the external advisory board for the 乱伦社区 Population Health Initiative. 鈥淭his is a bold and imaginative initiative of the president of the 乱伦社区 to identify and build up the essential ingredients for functional communities 鈥�…

UW student team develops universal eyedrop bottle adaptor to reduce medication waste

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Nearly all eye droppers create droplets that are too big for an eye to absorb. Bigger drops means people go through medication faster, which means they buy more medication more often. To address this challenge, a team of 乱伦社区 students created the Nanodropper, which is a small device that screws on to bottles currently on the market and controls the size of the droplets produced. The team says that, depending on their medications, Nanodropper should save consumers anywhere…

Swinomish Tribe collaborates with the UW to prepare for climate change

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A new research project led by the Swinomish Tribe and the 乱伦社区 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences is identifying strategies informed by indigenous values to adapt to climate change. Some of the adaptation strategies adopted to date include adding climate-change education to the Tribe鈥檚 educational curriculum on traditional harvest practices and increasing aquaculture capacity to help protect wild clam beds from rising sea levels. The results of this project could inform how tribes across the United…