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:
The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice
Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024
6:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle and Virtual
Professor Bullard’s presentation will focus primarily on the U.S. and the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies.
Prevalence and correlates of physical, sexual and threats of violence among partners of people who inject drugs living with HIV in Kenya
Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 797 and Virtual
Speaker: Sai Win Kyaw Htet Aung, Title: Prevalence and correlates of physical, sexual and threats of violence among partners of people who inject drugs living with HIV in Kenya.
Research Programs Coming Together: The Latino workplace project. Exploring the feasibility of connecting to wellness in small Latino businesses in Eastern WA
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
HPRC Seminar: Miriam Flores Moreno, Amy Hernandez, Ricardo Moreno Garcia, and Barbara Baquero (UW Health Promotion Research Center)
“Research Programs Coming Together: The Latino workplace project. Exploring the feasibility of connecting to wellness in small Latino businesses in Eastern WA”
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
Miriam Flores Moreno, Amy Hernandez, Ricardo Moreno Garcia, and Barbara Baquero (UW Health Promotion Research Center) - "Research Programs Coming Together: The Latino workplace project. Exploring the feasibility of connecting to wellness in small Latino businesses in Eastern Washington"
LECTURE | The Double-Helix Entanglements of Transnational Advocacy: Moral Conservative Resistance to SOGI Rights in Europe
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
In the last thirty years, the rights of people who are marginalized by their sexual orientation and identity (SOGI) have improved rapidly in many countries.
Viewing the Social Determinants of Health Through the Lens of Labor Policy and Action
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101
Join our panel discussion about how labor impacts health, focusing on precarious employment. We will discuss policy and other approaches to supporting workers.
Norman E. Breslow Distinguished Lecture: Kung-Yee Liang, President, Taiwan National Health Research Institutes
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
William H. Foege Genome Sciences (GNOM) S060
Abstract: In this talk, I intend to share with the audience my own journey from being a biostatistician in the USA to leading a university and a health research institute in Taiwan.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Liz Doris, NREL
Thursday, Apr. 11, 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.
Race, Health, & Justice Symposium
Friday, Apr. 12, 2024
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Kane Hall (KNE) Walker-Ames room
This cross-disciplinary symposium brings together students, faculty, researchers, and members of the public to discuss racial disparities in population health and health care, and the broader social, political, economic, and historical structures in which they occur.
Population Association of America Annual Meeting: Practice Talks
Friday, Apr. 12, 2024
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall (PAR) 360
This year’s event will feature 4 CSDE Trainees representing Sociology, Health Metrics Sciences, and Health Systems & Population Health giving Oral or Flash presentations this year! Please come listen to their practice presentations and offer them your good feedback and wisdom!
CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics: Inference
Monday, Apr. 15, 2024
9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Introduction to Bayesian Statistics: Inference-- covers the basics of how Bayesian inference is performed and how it compares to frequentist inference methods you already know.
Kate Raworth – Public Lecture
Monday, Apr. 15, 2024
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle and Virtual
Author Kate Raworth will join us remotely for a talk asking us to consider putting these economic principles in place to better our communities, cities, businesses and educators.
The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten
Friday, Apr. 19, 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.
CSDE Workshop–Survey Methods I: Online Survey Design & Administration with REDCap
Monday, Apr. 22, 2024
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Savery Hall (SAV) 117
Come join us to learn how you can use REDCap to support your next data collection activity, from sending out a single survey to a few participants to administering a large longitudinal research study.
Ecological sustainability, science, and cultural change
Monday, Apr. 22, 2024
6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Halcyon Brewing Company
How can human-centered design support systemic change and address future challenges in the face of climate change? In this Earth Day conversation, we’ll explore how HCDE researchers are addressing pressing environmental issues.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group – Jisu Kim – Collecting Digital Breadcrumbs to Identify Immigrants Online
Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024
9 a.m.–10 a.m.
Raitt Hall (RAI) 223
Jisu Kim holds a PhD in Data Science from Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. She has been working on exploring and establishing novel methods to improve relevant statistics of international migration using social media data.
Creating a Sustainable Campus: Decarbonizing our Energy System
Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024
10 a.m.–11 a.m.
Virtual
UW Sustainability is hosting a series of online webinars in 2024 highlighting sustainability work happening on our campuses.
Evans Research Seminar – Dr. Bethany Gordon
Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Parrington Hall (PAR) 360
Dr. Gordon specializes in applications of behavioral science and psychology to improve design processes for a more equitable built environment.
CLIMATE JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS AND CONNECTIONS
Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024
10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Student Union Building (HUB) 334
This free event is a platform for grassroots conversations to build a stronger climate community, where student voices take center stage. Through facilitated discussions grounded in principles of social justice and equity, we aim to ignite excitement and optimism for concrete next steps towards collective climate action at UW.
Introduction to Actigraphy in Population Research
Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024
2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Virtual
We will cover crucial aspects of study design, data analysis, and methods reporting, including device placement, sampling frequency, and data output (among other topics).
Cultural Mental Health
Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Global Mental Health Speaker Series: Cultural Mental Health - Conversation. April features a conversation between two experts in cultural mental health, the conversation emerges from their curiosity about each other's work.
Jackson School of International Studies – Panel: Global Abortion Around the World
Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Student Union Building (HUB) 214
Join us for a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the US-Mexico Borderlands over the past sixty years, and what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, May 2, 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.
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)
“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"
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
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.