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Using project savings from the construction of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, the 天美影视传媒 will fund dozens of new research projects through the Population Health Initiative鈥檚 interdisciplinary grant program. The new grants will fall into three tiers, with funding from $20,000 to $200,000 per award.

鈥淲e are delighted to have the funding capacity to be able to support the launch of roughly 75 innovative and interdisciplinary projects over the next two years,鈥� said , chief strategy officer for population health and a professor in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 鈥淲e believe our new tiered approach to granting will engage a broader range of disciplines while also incentivizing the importance of community-based research partnerships.鈥�

The tiers are:

• Laying the Foundation 鈥� for small projects and capacity-building work with community and/or other collaborators that is intended to prepare a team for future projects seeking proof-of-concept. Awards of up to $25,000 are available per project.
• Establishing Proof-of-Concept 鈥� for developing鈥痯reliminary data or proof-of-concept鈥痭eeded to pursue follow-on funding鈥痶o scale one鈥檚 efforts. Applications will be accepted from faculty members and principal investigator-eligible staff. Awards of up to鈥�$50,000鈥痯er project 鈥� or $65,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations.
• Scaling for Greater Impact 鈥� for impactful projects that have developed preliminary data or realized proof-of-concept and are seeking to scale their efforts and/or expand the scope of their work. Awards of up to $150,000 per project 鈥� or $200,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations.

In 2016, the UW launched its聽Population Health Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort across the university to bring understanding and solutions to the biggest health challenges facing communities here in the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and around the world.

The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health was made possible by a $210 million gift from the聽聽in October 2016 and $15 million in earmarked funding from the Washington Legislature, as well as funding from the university.聽The center opened to the public in the fall of 2021 and is home to the聽, the聽, parts of the聽聽and the offices of the Population Health Initiative.

The building project was undertaken through a delivery method, which resulted in a savings of roughly $6 million, and was the first and largest integrated design-build project completed on UW鈥檚 campus. The design-build team was led by The Miller Hull Partnership and聽Lease Crutcher Lewis.

With these new grants, the Initiative 鈥渟eeks to create a world where all people can live healthier and more fulfilling lives,鈥� as stated on its website. The grants are intended to encourage the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations for projects that address critical challenges to population health.

鈥淔aculty are at their best when you give them an opportunity to be innovative and not tell them what to do. If you come to them and say here鈥檚 the problem, you come up with the best way to solve it and then we鈥檒l support you to do so 鈥� that鈥檚 when you get the greatest ideas,鈥� Mokdad said.