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 2024-25 are:
Implementation Science in HIV Research and Practice Symposium 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Intellectual House
The symposium will highlight current implementation science topics in global and domestic HIV/AIDS research and programs.
Biostatistics Seminar: Jane-Ling Wang, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Thursday, May 8, 2025
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 135
Speaker: Jane-Ling Wang, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Let States Select Immigrants
Friday, May 9, 2025
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall (PAR) 360
In Let States Select Immigrants, Dr. Ann Chih Lin argues that states – rather than the federal government or individual employers — should govern immigration selection, basing their decisions on economic development strategies, interest in population growth, and family and community resources.
Urban@UW presents the Research to Action Collaboratory
Monday, May 12, 2025
Gould Hall (GLD)
Monday, May 12 – Thursday, May 22, 2025
Fostering Connections in Youth Mental Health and Well-being
Monday, May 12, 2025
10 a.m.–Noon
Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 145
Join us for an Open Space-style event to help facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations between UW researchers who are working in the space of youth mental health and well-being. Program: 10am-12pm | Networking lunch: 12-1pm.
Policy Perspectives on Washington’s Continuum of Care for Severe Mental Illness
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
Senator Manka Dhingra, JD, will provide a brief history of Washington civil commitment laws, recent policy changes, and investments along the entire continuum of care for severe mental illness, including our 988 system and forensic mental health.
Making AI Globally Intelligent
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
12:30 p.m.
Savery Hall (SAV) 409 and virtual
Sunipa Dev, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research. Robust and comprehensive evaluations of generative AI models play a critical role in ensuring safe, and beneficial technologies being deployed in society.
Health Research, Clinical Care, and Policy in Kenya: A Conversation with Linnet Ongeri
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Join the UW Consortium for Global Mental Health and the Population Health Initiative on Thursday, May 15th from 9-10am in the Hans Rosling Center (HRC) room 101 for Health Research, Clinical Care, and Policy in Kenya: A Conversation with Linnet Ongeri. This is part of our 2024-25 Seminar Series.
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Patrich Co UW, Ph.D. “Libertarian Modalities of Anti-Capitalist Struggle”
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Gowen Hall (GWN) 1A
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Patrich Co UW, Ph.D. "Libertarian Modalities of Anti-Capitalist Struggle"
Biostatistics Student-Invited Speaker Seminar: Emmanuel Candes, Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
Thursday, May 15, 2025
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 135
Speaker: Emmanuel Candes, Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
“Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”
Friday, May 16, 2025
Noon–1:30 p.m.
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Maura Allaire
Visiting Associate Professor
Water Equity Lab | Dept. of Urban Planning & Public Policy
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Associate Professor
Water Equity Lab | Dept. of Urban Planning & Public Policy
University of California, Irvine
Seminar: Ethics of Using Agentic AI in Research and Compliance, Where Are We Now and Where Are We Heading?
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Gerberding Hall (GRB) T-142
This seminar will examine the concept of agentic AI and explore risks, responsibilities, and best practices for responsible use.
Epi Seminar: Mohammad Hosseini
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
3:30 p.m.–4:50 p.m.
Magnuson Health Sciences Center (HST) T-739
Mohammad Hosseini (Northwestern University)
Northwest Nature and Health Symposium
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Intellectual House
Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work with the community and decision makers to translate our findings into programs and policies that promote equitable engagement with nature.
Golden M. Owens, Evolutions of Domestic Labor: Service-Performing Devices in United States Homes and Lived Spaces
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Communications Building (CMU) 202
In this workshop, Golden M. Owens will discuss how the late-nineteenth/early twentieth-century introduction and promotion of laborsaving products and technologies influenced and altered popular perceptions and articulations of domestic work and domestic workers.
Career Pathways Panel hosted by the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
2 p.m.–4 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101
Students will be able to hear advice from a variety of experts in the field to learn about the career journeys in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The panel will be followed with Q&A and informal networking.
“A One Health Approach to Lactation and Environmental Health” CeNR (BJ Cummings)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:30 p.m.–1:20 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 155
Environmental Health Seminar (ENV H 580): "A One Health Approach to Lactation and Environmental Health" CeNR (BJ Cummings)
BOOK LAUNCH | “To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States” by Dr. Karam Dana
Thursday, May 22, 2025
5 p.m.–6:45 p.m.
Kane Hall (KNE) 110
This book examines the social, political, economic, and technological forces that have amplified Palestinian voices globally, particularly in the United States, fostering new forms of activism and solidarity.
Moving Toward a GCC-Model of Temporary Worker Migration?: Lessons from Qatar on the Formalization of Labor Precarity
Friday, May 23, 2025
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall (PAR) 360
With the rightward turn of governments in migrant-receiving countries, policy approaches to labor immigration have shifted from an emphasis on labor market integration to the punitive enforcement of controls against migrant workers who are undocumented or otherwise out of status.
Biostatistics Seminar: Katie Pollard, Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Thursday, May 29, 2025
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 135
Speaker: Katie Pollard, Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Ethics, Policy & Humanity’s Future in Space
Thursday, May 29, 2025
4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 214
This roundtable brings together scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry to discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.
Paradoxes of Childlessness in Two Divergent Family Contexts
Friday, May 30, 2025
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall (PAR) 360
This presentation draws on in-depth interviews with 157 non-mothers in the U.S. and Japan to examine if and how individuals without children experience and evaluate childlessness differently by country.
Biostatistics Seminar: Jean Feng, Assistant Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistic, University of California, San Francisco
Thursday, Jun. 5, 2025
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 135
Speaker: Jean Feng, Assistant Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistic, University of California, San Francisco
Final Panel: Hot Topics in Mental Health & Law: Civil Commitment series
Tuesday, Jun. 10, 2025
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
A panel of speakers from previous sessions will conclude the series. This panel will provide an opportunity to review the ways in which each facet of civil commitment interacts within the broader mental health system and to address questions raised during the course of the series.
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.