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United World Antiviral Research Network launched

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A newly formed United World Antiviral Research Network (UWARN) will be bring together researchers from institutions in several countries to spot and confront emerging pandemic viruses. The network will include investigators from the University of Washington, including its School of Medicine, the UW Medicine Institute of Protein Design, and the School of Public Health; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and collaborators at Rockefeller University in New York City, FIOCRUZ in Brazil, IRESSEF in Senegal, KRISP in South Africa,…

Engineering researchers partner with county on an innovative wastewater treatment system

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Wastewater is treated at West Point Treatment Plant, located next to Seattle’s Discovery Park, before being released into Puget Sound. In coming years, more strict environmental regulations may require nitrogen to be removed from wastewater prior to discharge to improve the water quality and marine habitat. To meet the projected regulatory requirements, King County would be looking at expensive and major upgrades to its three large regional treatment facilities to create the additional square footage needed to accommodate nitrogen removal…

Fall undergraduate course to delve into the impacts of violence

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The Population Health Initiative is offering a new General Studies course, “Violence: Approaches to Response and Prevention,” during fall quarter 2020. This is a one-credit, credit/no-credit seminar-style course for undergraduate students, and has been developed in collaboration with the UW’s Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center. Violence has been a constant throughout human history, resulting in enormous suffering and broader negative societal consequences. Ongoing cases of police violence and mass shootings in the U.S. have focused attention on the fact…

Initiative announces latest cohort for humanitarian graduate certificate

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The Population Health Initiative today announced the admission of six new students into the Graduate Certificate in International Humanitarian Response. The certificate, which is offered through the University of Washington Graduate School, is intended to train an interdisciplinary group of UW graduate and professional students to become that next generation of leaders in international humanitarian response. The new cohort of students admitted into the certificate program are: Name Degree Program Khadidja Harrell Master of Public Health (Global Health Track) David…

Initiative co-funds two Innovation Gap Fund grants with CoMotion

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The Population Health Initiative and CoMotion have announced Population Health Innovation Gap Fund grants of $50,000 each to teams led by Elin Björling, a senior research scientist and lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, and Kit Galvin, a research scientist in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. These joint awards are intended to fund projects that simultaneously support the University of Washington’s vision for improving population health while also fulfilling the CoMotion Innovation Gap…

Initiative launches COVID-19 population health equity research grant program

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The Population Health Initiative today announced the launch of a new COVID-19 population health equity research grant program. Awards of up to $20,000 each are available to support University of Washington researchers in partnering with communities of color – which are being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic – to develop COVID-19 research projects that address community-identified needs. The period of performance for these awards is five months (i.e., September 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021). Applications are due by 11:59…

Initiative announces award of 18 COVID-19 economic recovery research grants

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The University of Washington Population Health Initiative announced the award of approximately $333,000 in COVID-19 economic recovery research grants to 18 different faculty-led teams. These teams are composed of individuals representing 13 different schools and colleges. Funding was partially matched by additional school, college and departmental funds, bringing the total value of these awards to roughly $495,000. “The sacrifices our country has made during the pandemic is saving lives, but at a tremendous cost to our economy,” said Ali H….

New database seeks to democratize air pollution data for research

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With the goal of democratizing air pollution data, University of Washington Civil & Environmental Engineering researchers helped launch a first-of-its-kind publicly available database that provides access to long-term information about air pollution concentrations and economic damages caused by human exposure to air pollution. The database was developed by researchers at The Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions, a collaborative research center created with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that involves faculty and students from UW, Carnegie…

Listening to the community is critical to improving Latino health

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The University of Washington’s Latino Center for Health is based at the University of Washington School of Public Health and operates in partnership with the School of Social Work. Hallmarks of the center’s work are community collaboration, advocacy and culturally responsive research. Engaging the community in a respectful and authentic way is at the very core of the center’s mission to address health disparities and promote well-being across the diverse Latinx population. Nearly all of the center’s research currently being…

Prescribed burns and thinning protected forests during the massive Washington wildfire

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The 2014 Carlton Complex wildfire in north central Washington State was the largest contiguous fire in the state’s history. Flames spread over 160,000 acres of forest and rangeland in just a single day, ultimately burning more than 250,000 acres in the midst of a particularly warm and dry summer. In the first major study following the devastating fire, researchers from the University of Washington and U.S. Forest Service found that previous tree thinning and prescribed burns helped forests survive the…