December 5, 2019
Winter 2020 undergraduate course highlights UW population health research
The Population Health Initiative has again partnered with the University of Washington’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 open to all interested faculty, students, staff, alumni and members of the community.
The course will meet Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Odegaard Library 220. The speakers and topics for this quarter are:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Unit |
| 1/8 | Jessica Salvador Derek Fulwiler |
Course introduction Introduction to population health |
URP Population Health Initiative |
| 1/15 | Ali Mokdad | The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |
| 1/22 | Dargan Frierson | EarthGames: Videogames to shape our future | College of the Environment |
| 1/29 | Geoff Baird | The sentinel: Lab medicine’s role in population health | School of Medicine |
| 2/5 | Christine Liebbrand | The influence of paternal incarceration on poverty | College of Arts & Sciences |
| 2/12 | Jessica Jones-Smith | Studying the effects of Seattle’s soda tax | School of Public Health |
| 2/19 | Pamela Collins | Global mental health | Schools of Medicine and Public Health |
| 2/26 | Donald Chi | Oral health inequities in children | Schools of Dentistry and Public Health |
| 3/4 | Jessica Salvador and students | Undergraduate research panel | URP |
This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.