Population Health

October 19, 2021

Winter 2022 undergraduate course highlights UW population health research

Image of student attending a classThe Population Health Initiative is continuing its partnership with the University of Washington’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures during winter quarter 2022 that focus on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.

The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391 D) 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 Gould Hall 322. The speakers and topics for this quarter are:

Date Speaker Topic Unit
1/5 Sophie Pierszalowski
Derek Fulwiler
Course introduction
Introduction to population health
URP
Population Health Initiative
1/12 Ali Mokdad The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
1/19 Angélica Cházaro Police Violence as a Threat to Public Health School of Law
1/26 Tania M. Busch Isaksen Supporting equitable land management decisions through the characterization of wildfire and prescribed smoke exposure for at-risk communities School of Public Health
2/2 Jennifer Sonney Using health technology to improve the chronic health conditions of children School of Nursing
2/9 Shannon Dorsey Trauma focused mental health care in low-resource settings College of Arts & Sciences
2/16 Sonia Savelli Coronavirus Risk Communication: How Age and Communication Format Affect Risk Perception and Behaviors College of Engineering
2/23 Gundula Proksch Aquaponic food production in cities College of Built Environments
3/2 Sophie Pierszalowski and students Undergraduate research panel URP
3/9 Amanda Hornby, Linda Whang, Emilie Vrbancic Undergraduate research tutorial UW Libraries

This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.

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