Population Health
Let’s Talk Pop Health
The Population Health Initiative is working to amplify population health-related education and training activities across the UW’s three campuses by offering, partnering to offer, and/or promoting a range of events under the banner of, “Let’s Talk Pop Health.”
These offerings are a mix of virtual, in-person and hybrid workshops, lectures, seminars, film screenings, convenings and so forth, with the in-person activities to be held primarily in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health as a means of activating it as the university’s hub for population health.
The current “Let’s Talk Pop Health” offerings for academic year 2023-24 are:
Allergy & Immunology Teaching Series – Food Allergy Research: Biologics and Beyond
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
7 a.m.–8 a.m.
South Lake Union Building F (SL32)
Speaker: Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah, Associate Professor, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Stanford University.
Using a Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit Patient Preferences for Family Planning Services in Texas: A Work in Progress
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
1 p.m.–2 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 797 and Virtual
Department of Global Health, Kenya Research and Training Center
SPH-EDI Student Journal Club: Reproductive Justice
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 402 and Virtual
SPH-EDI Journal Club will meet on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 from 1:30-2:30pm in HRC 402 or on zoom, our discussion topic will be: Reproductive Justice.
Chelina Odbert: Journey Towards Justice in the Public Realm
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Architecture Hall (ARC) 147
In this lecture, Chelina Odbert , the co-founder and CEO of KDI, will explore her path from design school to the inception of a global, mission-driven planning and design practice. Through a series of KDI projects, she will demonstrate how planning and design can and should be tools of equity, justice, and inclusion.
Evaluating a patient navigation intervention to improve receipt of genetic services in UW Medicine
Thursday, May 9, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
HPRC Seminar: Sarah Knerr (UW Health Promotion Research Center)
HPRC Seminar: Sarah Knerr “Feasibility of Using Patient Navigation to Improve Identification of Inherited Colorectal Cancer Syndromes”
Thursday, May 9, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
"Feasibility of Using Patient Navigation to Improve Identification of Inherited Colorectal Cancer Syndromes "
“Evaluating a patient navigation intervention to improve receipt of genetic services in UW Medicine”
Thursday, May 9, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
Join: Sarah Knerr (UW Health Promotion Research Center) - "Evaluating a patient navigation intervention to improve receipt of genetic services in UW Medicine"
Biostatistics Seminar: Anatomy of Event Studies: Hypothetical Experiments, Exact Decomposition, and Robust Estimation
Thursday, May 9, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 135
In recent decades, event studies have emerged as a central methodology in health and social research for evaluating the causal effects of staggered interventions.
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador
Friday, May 10, 2024
Noon–1:30 p.m.
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
The Center for Environmental Politics organizes a monthly colloquium series on environmental politics, policy, and governance.
COM Colloquium by Debra Hawhee, “Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence”
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Communications Building (CMU) 126
To galvanize action in response to the climate crisis, it is insufficient to present findings; the task at hand is, rather, to find presence. Such is one of the main claims of A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Rhetoric.
COM Colloquium by Debra Hawhee, “Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence”
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Communications Building (CMU) 126
It is insufficient to present findings on the climate crisis; the task at hand is, rather, to find presence. Such is one of the main claims of A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Rhetoric.
Indigenous Mental Health
Thursday, May 16, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Global Mental Health Speaker Series: Indigenous Mental Health - Michelle Johnson-Jennings. May features a lecture by Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings on indigenous mental health.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Kelsey Stoerzinger, University of Minnesota
Thursday, May 16, 2024
4 p.m.–5 p.m.
NanoES 181
The Clean Energy Institute Interdisciplinary Seminar Series was established to bring distinguished leaders in the field of clean energy to campus to present their research and meet students, postdocs, and faculty from departments across the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment.
Creating a Sustainable Campus: State of Sustainability at UW
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
A look at the many sustainability efforts at the University of Washington and the actions we're taking to meet our goals.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Jun. 6, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
The annual Team Science Seminar Series was developed to assist early career researchers in addressing challenges to collaboration and collective team functioning, improving their ability to lead interdisciplinary teams, communicate and build trust with their collaborators, and identify the best ways to solve problems collaboratively.
Validity and reliability of survey measures for cancer screening in the redesigned National Health Interview Survey
Thursday, Jun. 13, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
HPRC Seminar: Larry Kessler (UW Department of Health Systems and Population Health)
Kaiser Permanente Washington’s community health program, mental health resources available to members and non-members, collaborative care, and virtual care
Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
HPRC Seminar: Kim Wicklund and Kevin Klein (Kaiser Permanente Washington)
Researching, Implementing, and Sustaining Epilepsy Self-Management Programs: MEW 3.0
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
HPRC Seminar: Erica Johnson (UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine)
Please contact us if you are organizing population health-related events that you would like support in partnering and/or marketing under the “Let’s Talk Pop Health” banner.