December 10, 2024
Designing better methods to help female athletes train to prevent, recover from injuries
The popularity of women’s sports has increased substantially in the last year, but higher risk of injury continue to create disparities between male and female athletes. Several common injuries particularly impact women’s sports, with ACL tears found to be two to eight times more common for women than men in the same sports. Jenny Robinson,…
December 3, 2024
Population Health Initiative helps to catalyze innovative, interdisciplinary research
UW News engaged with three Population Health Initiative projects in celebration of the Initiative’s eighth year in action. Since the Initiative began in 2016, it has funded 227 interdisciplinary projects that have collectively realized a range of positive results. The projects previewed include an online program that measures a person’s memory and predicts their risk…
November 27, 2024
Boeing Innovation Challenge brings UW student teams together around sustainability issues
The inaugural 2024 Boeing Innovation Challenge featured students teams across all three University of Washington campuses working together to develop technology proposals and business cases that integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning with one of the six goals highlighted in the “2023 Boeing Sustainability Report, Innovation & Clean Tech.” The challenge began in April with…
November 20, 2024
Spotlight: Gregory Valentine, a neonatologist, collaborator and innovator
Most days, Dr. Gregory Valentine wishes he had more than 24 hours to realize his goal of overcoming health disparities amongst newborns around the world. Valentine recently found himself in Africa for two weeks to follow up on his Prevention of Developmental Delay and Xylitol (PDDaX) trial in Malawi and develop a neurodevelopmental program that…
November 13, 2024
Research sheds light on air pollution in nail salons, need for increased regulations
The strong scent of nail polish that permeates nail salons has been linked to a variety of health effects experienced by the workers who inhale it, according to new research from a University of Washington faculty member. Diana Ceballos, a UW assistant professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, recently co-authored a study published in…
November 7, 2024
Awardees of autumn 2022 Tier 1 pilot research grants report final project outcomes
Nine interdisciplinary University of Washington project teams were awarded Population Health Initiative Tier 1 pilot grants in autumn quarter 2022. Each of these teams were working to lay an interdisciplinary foundation for future projects in areas ranging from perinatal health to the impacts of climate change to generate proof-of-concept. Each of the funded projects has…
November 5, 2024
New UW biomaterials center seeks to fight inequities, reduce disparities
The National Institutes of Health recently granted $10.5 million towards the creation of the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) center, led by the University of Michigan and University of Washington, with a focus on advancing biomaterials research through the recruitment of historically excluded Black, Latino and Indigenous individuals. The proposal applies a concept known as centering…
October 30, 2024
Initiative funds 14 UW project teams for early-stage pilot grant research
The Population Health Initiative announced today the award of 14 Tier 1 pilot grants to interdisciplinary teams of University of Washington researchers representing 11 schools and colleges across two UW campuses plus several community-based partners. The value of these 14 awards is approximately $360,000, which includes matching funds from schools, departments and units. “The breadth…
October 25, 2024
Winter course to explore interdisciplinary work that improves youth mental health, well-being
The University of Washington Population Health Initiative, the College of Education and the School of Social Work are partnering to offer a one-credit General Studies course during winter quarter 2025 that will introduce students to a number of UW and community-based research and programs that are working to improve youth mental health and well-being. Undergraduates…
October 22, 2024
Fueling the flame: Initiative pilot grant studies health risk of increasing heat and wildfires
Agricultural communities in the western portion of the U.S. are becoming more exposed to extreme heat and wildfire smoke (WFS) as a result of climate change, adversely impacting the health of the general population and posing a greater risk to outdoor crop workers. Washington state leads the U.S. in apple, blueberry and cherry production, with…