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:
Breakfast with WACh with Dr. Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023
9 a.m.–10 a.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101
"Suicidal behavior in pregnant adolescent girls in Ghana" - Dr. Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, Global WACh Rising Star. Award Recipient 2022. Breakfast included!
Epi Seminar: Bias (not the statistical kind!) in Qualitative, Quantitative, and AI-based Research
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023
3:30 p.m.–4:50 p.m.
Virtual
Epi Seminar: Bias (not the statistical kind!) in Qualitative, Quantitative, and AI-based Research
Celebrating 75 Years of International Human Rights: Contextualizing Rights in Europe and Latin America
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023
10 a.m.–Noon
Lucien Board Room, UW Tacoma and Thomson 317, UW Seattle
This gathering aims to bring awareness to modern human rights and their role in promoting peace and democracy, especially today, as we experience ongoing conflicts and anti-democratic discourses in various parts of the world in which the most basic human rights are being violated.
UW’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions webinar
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
Join UW Sustainability for a discussion about the data on UW's emissions, key takeaways from the inventory and what the findings mean for our future decarbonization efforts.
Breakfast with WACh Book Talk with Dr. Linda Eckert
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
9 a.m.–10 a.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 797 and Virtual
Join us for breakfast and lecture on, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" Dr. Linda Eckert, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
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.
Indigenous Speaker Series 55: Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
Noon
Virtual
The Indigenous Speaker Series provides a platform for dialogues about Indigenous people’s cultural and traditional lived experiences, hosted in partnership by the University of Washington - Tacoma, C.U.R.E (Clean Up the River Environment) and the Salish Sea Research Center.
2023 Ross L. Prentice Lecture: Causal Inference for Continuous Exposures: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Architecture Hall (ARC) 147
When dealing with data from observational studies, establishing a causal relationship between an exposure and an outcome is a notoriously difficult---and at times, seemingly impossible---task...
Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Seminar – Growing a Biodiverse Food Systems Future
Friday, Dec. 8, 2023
12:30 p.m.–1:20 p.m.
Kane Hall (KNE) 120
Yona Sipos, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UW
CV ReWorkshop: Updating Your CV to Contextualize Your Contributions in Societally Engaged Work
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
10 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Virtual
Are you a researcher engaging with non-academic partners to develop science that meets real-world needs? This work session is designed to support you in incorporating narrative elements into your CV that help contextualize your skills and experiences and better communicate your work.
I-TECH Research Seminar Series
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023
8 a.m.–9 a.m.
Virtual
I-TECH Research Seminar Series: The I-TECH Research Seminar Series is a monthly seminar series hosted by the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Jan. 4, 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.
Dorothy Roberts on “The Urgency of Reproductive Justice After Dobbs” |A Reproductive Cultures and Politics in Global and Historical Perspective Lecture
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024
5 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Student Union Building (HUB) 332
Since the 1980s, the longstanding devaluation of Black women’s childbearing has supported an expanded criminalization of pregnancy that encompasses fetal protection laws, abortion restrictions, and family policing.
Panel with Dr. Roberts | ARCH: Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024
3 p.m.–6 p.m.
Husky Union Building (HUB) Lyceum
Center for Anti-Racism & Community Health: Panel Discussion and Reception with Dr. Dorothy Roberts and faculty from the School of Nursing, School of Public Health, American Ethnics Studies, and others.
Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle and Virtual
Join UW CREATE: Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionality in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other.
Incarceration and Mental Health: Global and Local Perspectives
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Global Mental Health Speaker Series: Ben Danielson, MD & Helen Jack, MD. January features a conversation on incarceration and mental health.
“Translating For and Against Empire” | A Translation Studies Hub Colloquium
Friday, Jan. 19, 2024
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Communications Building (CMU) 202
Join the Translation Studies Hub for two presentations: “Erasure in Efficient Translations: Locating Gender in Bengali Rhetorical Practice” and “The Perilous World of Afghan Fixers."
The Consequences of Environmental Protest in Global Perspective
Friday, Jan. 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.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Feb. 1, 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.
Men’s Health Update 2024
Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
8 a.m.–1 p.m.
South Lake Union Administration (Slu Building C) (SLC)
SOM, Continuing Medical Education: Men are disproportionately afflicted by urologic disease, and “Men’s Health” is an established medical arena where specialized knowledge is required.
Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024
6:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle and Virtual
Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres. How do we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black, queer, and Other futures locally and globally?
Global Mental Health and Climate Change
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Global Mental Health Speaker Series: Global Mental Health and Climate Change - Panel event with Dr Kristie Ebi, Dr Gregory Bratman, Dr Sara Curran, Dr Sherilee Harper, Dr Susan Clayton
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024
3:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Thomson Hall (THO) 317
Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics.
How Good Norms Do Harm: Insights from the Justice Gap in Global Forest Governance
Friday, Feb. 16, 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.
LECTURE | Gendering Democratization in Croatia
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual
How does the ongoing struggle of women’s and feminist movements contribute to democratization processes over time?
SocSem: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024
Noon–2 p.m.
Savery Hall (SAV) 409
Professor Korver-Glenn studies how contemporary cities and markets reproduce racial inequality as well as how public policy maintains or can mitigate such inequality.
The Cultural Production of Compliance: Country Responses to Disaster Risk Reduction Monitoring
Friday, Mar. 1, 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.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Mar. 7, 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.
Symposium on Climate Change and Clinical Practice
Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Center for Urban Horticulture
This symposium will provide a full day of learning, network development, and practical exploration of key topics such as disaster preparedness, capacity management, specialty-specific changes in clinical practice, and decarbonization of the clinical environment.
Perinatal Mental Health
Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hans Rosling Center (HRC) 101 and Virtual
Global Mental Health Speaker Series: Perinatal Mental Health - Panel. March features a panel discussion on perinatal mental health between four experts, two UW faculty and two practitioners working in the field with vulnerable mothers in Washington State.
Team Science Seminar Series
Thursday, Apr. 4, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.