This winter, the Population Health Initiative is again partnering with the University of Washington’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures that focus on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.
The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391, SLN 15106) 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).
The course will meet online via Zoom on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. The speakers and topics for this quarter are described in the following table.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Department |
| 1/6 | Jessica Salvador Meher Antia |
Course introduction Introduction to population health |
URP Population Health Initiative |
| 1/13 | Ali Mokdad | Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | Health Metrics Sciences, IHME |
| 1/20 | Barbara Baquero | Promoting health equity in underserved communities | Health Services |
| 1/27 | Nidhi Agrawal | Messaging of health risks | Foster School of Business |
| 2/3 | Elin Björling | Designing a social robot to reduce teen stress | Human Centered Design and Engineering |
| 2/10 | Sandor Tóth | Trade offs in natural resource management | Environmental and Forest Sciences |
| 2/17 | Jonathan Kanter | COVID-19 and mental health | Psychology |
| 2/24 | Anirban Basu | Cost effectiveness analysis | Pharmacy |
| 3/3 | Jessica Salvador and students | Undergraduate research panel | URP |
This course is sponsored by Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.