January 18, 2023
Spotlight: Akhtar Badshah’s passion for social impact
A chance encounter nearly 20 years ago sparked what has become Akhtar Badshah’s passion for the topics of social impact, social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Now a lecturer at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, Badshah’s first passion was architecture. He spent his formative professional years at the Massachusetts Institute…
January 12, 2023
Awardees of winter quarter 2022 Tier 1 pilot research grants report their progress
Eleven Tier 1 Population Health Initiative pilot grants were awarded to teams representing researchers from nine different UW schools and colleges, as well as UW Tacoma and numerous community-based partners, in February 2022. These awards from the initiative’s Tier 1 pilot grant program were intended to support researchers in laying an interdisciplinary foundation for a…
January 10, 2023
Initiative co-hosts second annual Sacia Digital Health Innovation Workshop
Students from a variety of disciplines came together on November 19, 2022, in the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health to make the second annual Sacia Digital Health Innovation Workshop an exciting and engaging day of activities. The event, which sought to offer students an immersive and hands-on opportunity to workshop new…
January 5, 2023
New foundation funding to help UW faculty members narrow gaps in health equity
Two University of Washington faculty members, Weichao Yuwen and Maggie Ramirez, have received a $50,000 grant from the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation’s Emergent Innovation program to narrow gaps in health equity. Yuwen and Ramirez’s project, “AI-Enhanced Nursing Intervention Platform for Latino Family Caregivers,” seeks to tailor an existing artificial intelligence platform – Caring for…
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