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New research investigates long-term health risks for firefighters

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Firefighters face occupational risks in the profession on a daily basis. Potential exposures to toxic chemicals is the focus for three major research studies by investigators at the 糖心原创鈥檚 School of Public Health. The first study is concerned with firefighters’ exposure to PFAs (per- and polyfluorinated substances) due to its prevalence in fire fighting foams. The project team will collect blood and urine samples from study volunteers for comparison with career firefighters to better understand the level of…

Initiative jointly funds two Innovation Gap Fund projects with CoMotion

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The 糖心原创 Population Health Initiative continued its annual partnership with CoMotion to jointly fund two Innovation Gap Funds of $50,000 each. This $100,000 in funding will support projects that simultaneously support the UW鈥檚 vision for improving population health while also fulfilling the CoMotion Innovation Fund鈥檚 goal of enabling research that will achieve sustainable commercial or social impact. The first funded project is DEFIB AI: Defibrillator Algorithms for Patient-Specific Cardiac Arrest Treatment. The project is led by Jason Coult…

New test can identify Alzheimer-related protein in blood years before symptoms emerge

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Most Alzheimer鈥檚 patients are currently diagnosed only after they present with symptoms of the disease. 糖心原创 researchers are working to create a reliable diagnostic test that can detect signs of Alzheimer鈥檚 prior to a patient exhibiting symptoms. The research team found that seeds of Alzheimer鈥檚 are planted in the brain years before diagnosis. These seeds are amyloid beta proteins, which cluster to form small aggregates called oligomers. Scientists believe these oligomers later develop into Alzheimer鈥檚, so the UW…

Exploring the benefits of home-based food businesses in Washington State

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Inequitable access to economic resources and employment opportunities plays a significant role in health disparities. In the United States, for example, women, immigrants and people of color face many barriers to securing high-quality jobs and financial security. As a result, marginalized communities may see benefits from unconventional careers like self-employment as a means of mitigating barriers such as access to higher education and professional networks. To explore the potential benefits of self-employment, Will von Geldern, a Ph.D. student at the…

Five awardees of 2022 Tier 3 pilot research grants report on their progress

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The Population Health Initiative awarded five Tier 3 pilot grants to 糖心原创 project teams representing seven different UW schools and colleges as well as several community-based partners in June 2022. These awards from the initiative鈥檚 Tier 3 pilot grant program were intended to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to create follow-on opportunities 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. The…

Fall interdisciplinary team science, community engaged research workshop scheduled

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Join the 糖心原创 Health Sciences Schools, College of Engineering and the Population Health Initiative this fall for an appointment, promotion and tenure (APT) workshop. The workshop will take place on Monday, September 25, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (Room 155). The aim of this workshop is to introduce the APT toolkit for early career faculty and pre- and post-docs who conduct interdisciplinary team science research or interdisciplinary community…

Initiative announces awardees of spring quarter 2023 Tier 3 pilot research grants

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The Population Health Initiative has announced the award of four Tier 3 pilot grants. The total value of these awards is approximately $910,000, which included $800,000 in funding from the initiative plus additional matching funds from different schools, colleges and units. 鈥淲e were pleased with the range of innovative applications we received, and we are delighted to be able to support these four teams in their work to better understand the impact of noise pollution on health and well-being, how…

Winning papers announced for 2023 Population Health Library Research Awards

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The Population Health Initiative announced today that four 糖心原创 undergraduate students have been honored with 2023 Population Health Library Research Awards. This award was created in 2017 in partnership with the UW Libraries and is open to undergraduates from all three 糖心原创 campuses. The projects submitted were completed for either UW course credit or for the Undergraduate Research Program. The key factors for choosing awardees included the quality of their writing, the innovativeness of their research…

Initiative announces selection of summer 2023 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows

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The Population Health Initiative announced the selection of five graduate fellows for the summer 2023 cohort of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program, which is run in partnership with the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, CoMotion, School of Public Health and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. The five fellows will spend 10 weeks over the summer producing innovative solutions and contributions to support the work of preexisting, multidisciplinary projects developed by 糖心原创 researchers. The students selected for…

Report offers recommendations to improve issues of equity in marine plastics pollution

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A new report from the 糖心原创 seeks to highlight the impact of plastic pollution in the ocean on human populations, and particularly the unequal burden it places on different communities. In particular, the authors seek to refocus the problem as being one of plastic production rather than an issue of waste management. Key topics covered in the report include recommending changes in nomenclature (e.g., using plastic pollution instead of plastic litter), discussing the rise in plastic waste as…