In just eight years, the UW Population Health Initiative has funded 227 innovative, interdisciplinary projects. With the Initiative now a third of the way into its 25-year vision, UW News checked in with three projects that recently received funding to scale their efforts.聽
The Academy said members are elected 鈥渋n recognition of their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.鈥澛�
New research led by 天美影视传媒 professors James Krieger and Melissa Knox found that sweetened beverage taxes redistributed dollars from higher- to lower-income households.
A study by the University of California, Irvine, and the 天美影视传媒 shows how social connectedness in San Francisco neighborhoods was associated with COVID-19 infection rates.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! Christina Fiig: Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis May 17, 12:00 PM | Online Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on “EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis,” Christina Fiig聽is an Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Society, Section for…
People don鈥檛 gain or lose weight because they live near a fast-food restaurant or supermarket, according to a new study led by the 天美影视传媒. And, living in a more 鈥渨alkable,” dense neighborhood likely only has a small impact on weight. These 鈥渂uilt-environment鈥� amenities have been seen in past research as essential contributors to losing weight or tending toward obesity. The idea appears obvious: If you live next to a fast-food restaurant, you鈥檒l eat there more and thus gain…
The 2020 census has been subject to court fights, shifting deadlines and pandemic-related process adjustments. Sara Curran, director of the UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, explains the developments with this year’s count.
A research team led by UC Irvine and the 天美影视传媒 has created a new model of how the coronavirus can spread through a community. The model factors in network exposure 鈥� whom one interacts with 鈥� and demographics to simulate at a more detailed level both where and how quickly the coronavirus could spread through Seattle and 18 other major cities.
With a grant from the National Institutes of Health, a five-year, $1.8 million training program at the 天美影视传媒 will fund 25 academic-year graduate fellowships, develop a new training curriculum and contribute to methodological advances in health research at the intersection of demography and data science.
On a recent Saturday evening, a dozen women gathered around a table at a community room in the White Center neighborhood of Seattle, settling in with snacks and conversation. The evening鈥檚 program would be more education than entertainment, an opportunity to discuss topics so sensitive that, without the group of women assembled that night, might not be discussed at all. Against one wall of the room, a model of the female reproductive system. Standing before them, a doula, one of…
African-American women are nearly twice as likely to give birth prematurely as white women. Amelia Gavin, an associate professor in the 天美影视传媒 School of Social Work, connects preterm birth to racial discrimination via PTSD.
Faculty members in the UW’s Jackson School of International Studies will explore the ongoing impact of the Trump presidency in weekly lectures each Monday through fall quarter.
Analysis of almost 3,000 pairs of Danish twins shows that they live longer than the general population, especially if they are identical.
Statisticians at the 天美影视传媒 have developed the first model for projecting population that factors in the vagaries of migration, a slippery issue that has bedeviled demographers for decades. Their work, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also provides population projections for all countries worldwide 鈥� and challenges the existing predictions for some, particularly the United States and Germany. 鈥淚t turns out that for quite a few countries, migration is the single…