Population Health

Other education and training

The Population Health Initiative cross-promotes a number of other education and training opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, professional students and faculty.

Internships (students and faculty)

A number of campus units support population health-related internships, including:

  • The Career & Internship Center supports the internship and professional development goals and needs of students. It also offers support to faculty and advisors to deliver career content to students, classes, departments, and programs.
  • The Community Engagement & Leadership Education Center offers paid Undergraduate Community Based Internships that partner students with non-profit and public sector organizations.
  • The Community Engagement & Leadership Education Center also offers several fellowship opportunities.

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Research opportunities (undergraduate students)

A number of campus units offer students exposure to population health-related research opportunities, including:

Fellowships and training (graduate students)

Graduate School fellowships

The UW Graduate School maintains a listing of a variety of funding opportunities for graduate students.

This listing includes opportunities administered by the Graduate School as well as opportunities external to the UW.

Graduate Funding Information Service

The Graduate Funding Information Service works with both currently enrolled and newly admitted University of Washington graduate students, helping them identify and locate funding opportunities for graduate education-related expenses, including tuition, research and travel.

Commercialization fellowship

The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences offers a summer-long commercialization fellowship for graduate students with entrepreneurial backgrounds who are interested in building a commercialization plan for a promising technology.

Fellows are paired with an early-stage technology, working with the inventors, as well as mentors, to evaluate if the technology presents a start-up or licensing opportunity.

The fellowship awards five students with $10,000 stipends each and is managed by the UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.

TL1 Translational Research Training Program

The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ TL1 program is a one-year mentored research training program in translational science for pre-doctoral students.

This program creates a cross-disciplinary community of emerging researchers and provides them with funding, specific training, career development opportunities and team science skills to help them function effectively within translational science teams.

Career development programs (faculty and postdoctoral)

Future Faculty Fellows Program

The UW School of Medicine offers a Future Faculty Fellows Program that aims to prepare postdoctoral scientists for successful careers that combine research, service, mentoring and teaching.

The program consists of two components: a workshop on career development, and a teaching apprenticeship program that provides a faculty-mentor experience in designing and teaching an undergraduate course.

The program is free and relevant to individuals in any area of basic or applied bioscience, or engineering in any biological, biomedical or biochemical field.

KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program

The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ KL2 program provides the time, funding, mentorship and training necessary to foster the early career development of clinical and translational researchers (i.e., postdoctoral or early career faculty level).

KL2 scholars are appointed for up to three years of support. The program encourages all types of clinical research, including patient-oriented research, translational research, small- and large-scale clinical investigation and trials, epidemiologic and natural history studies, health services research and health behavior research.

Pathways (medical students)

A number of training programs and pathways exist for medical students, including:

  • The Community Health Advancement Program nurtures the ideas and goals of health care students interested in working with medically underserved populations.
  • The Community-focused Urban Scholars Program seeks to diversify the School of Medicine’s student population and address WWAMI’s urban underserved physician workforce shortage through pipeline development and community-based medical school training.
  • The Rural Underserved Opportunities Program is a four-week, elective immersion experience in community medicine.
  • The Targeted Rural Underserved Track provides a continuous connection between underserved communities, medical education, and health professionals in the WWAMI region.
  • The Global Health Pathway is designed for medical students interested in careers dedicated to improving global health disparities.
  • The Black Health Justice Pathway offers medical students the foundational knowledge to assess health inequities through a critical lens.
  • The Latinx Health Pathway prepares students to provide culturally responsive care for the Latinx population.
  • The LGBTQ Health Pathway offers a number of educational opportunities and experiences to medical students that will better prepare them to provide culturally responsive care for the LGBTQ population.
  • The Indian Health Pathway provides a path for Native medical students to stay connected to their community while enhancing opportunities for Native and non-Native students to learn how to integrate their American Indian/Alaska Native patients’ cultural, spiritual and traditional needs into the health care relationship.
  • The Underserved Pathway helps prepare future physicians to care for vulnerable and underserved populations.

Other support

Additional resources available to support population health-related education and training include:

  • The Global Health Resource Center is the University’s hub for global health-related activities.
  • Jumpstart is an early education program that connects students with preschool-aged children from underserved communities in Seattle to lead literacy and science-based activities.