May 16, 2018
Initiative awards 2018 graduate student conference travel funds
The Population Health Initiative today announced the winners of 16 Graduate Student Conference Travel Awards. These awards are intended to further the academic, research or professional goals of graduate students as they strive to become the next generation of leaders in population health.
These awards were open to graduate students on all three UW campuses who were currently enrolled in a graduate degree program and had been accepted to present a population health-related paper, poster or exhibit, or to serve as an invited speaker, at a conference, symposium or other professional and academic meeting.
The 16 awardees span a range of disciplines and areas of research interest, as is noted in the following table.
| Name | School | Conference |
| Austin Carter | Schools of Medicine and Public Health | AIDS 2018 |
| Blythe Adamson | School of Pharmacy | American Society for Health Economists |
| Colleen Kimsey | School of Public Health | American Society of Bioethics and Humanities |
| Courtney Schupp | School of Public Health | Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society |
| Elizabeth Haight | Schools of Medicine and Public Health | 13th International Conference on HIV Treatment and Prevention Adherence |
| Hilary Bethancourt | College of Arts & Sciences | Nutrition 2018 – American Society for Nutrition Annual Meeting |
| Isabelle Celentano | School of Public Health | North American Refugee Health Conference 2018 |
| James Buszkiewicz | School of Public Health | ObesityWeek 2018 – The Obesity Society |
| Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot | School of Public Health | 51st Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting |
| Meng Li | School of Pharmacy | International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research |
| Samantha Dolan | Schools of Medicine and Public Health | American Immunization Registry Association |
| Tahvi Frank | School of Public Health | AIDS 2018 |
| Tigran Avoundjian | School of Public Health | Society of Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 2018 |
| Trevor Peckham | School of Public Health | International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment |
| Xiaochen Dai | Schools of Medicine and Public Health | AIDS 2018 |
| Yuanjin Zhou | School of Social Work | Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2018 |
Please visit our funding page to learn more about these awards.