SPH Undergraduate Student Assistance Fund

The Public Health Undergraduate Student Assistance Fund provides a range of support, including tuition assistance, research fees and travel. You can support students such as these by visiting sph.uw.edu/giving.

The University launched the UW F/S/R Campaign for Students, a special gift matching program for all UW faculty, staff and retirees to support students in the School of Public Health.

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Any size gift or pledge to the following SPH funds will receive a 50 percent match:

Students gain valuable experience while at the UW, but not many can say they’ve produced a video that “improves the interface between Chinese callers and 9-1-1 dispatchers.”

Tracy Yeung, who graduated from the UW in 2015 with a BS in public health and a BA in medical anthropology and global health, worked on such a video as part of the public health capstone course at the UW School of Public Health.

The University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative has received a major boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation provided a gift to fund construction of a new building that will house several UW units working in population health, including parts of the School of Public Health.

Pesticide exposure in farmworkers from agricultural communities is linked to changes in the oral microbiome, according to a new study from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), based in the University of Washington School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health, was recently awarded $20.1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for the first of five years of funding.

Using a new approach to measure historical war-related deaths, researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health confirm that nearly 240,000 people died from causes attributable to wars in Iraq from 1980 through 1993.

The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH), directed by Richard Fenske at the University of Washington School of Public Health, received more than $9.2 million in grant funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

People of African, Latino or indigenous ancestry are underrepresented in many major genome studies, according to a new analysis by researchers from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

The University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative has received a major boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a gift to fund construction of a new building that will house several UW units working in population health, including parts of the School of Public Health.

Thirty-one new gene locations linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of hypertension and blood pressure to date, with valuable input from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

The study, published online Sept. 12 in Nature Genetics, extends the number of known gene locations linked with blood pressure to more than 90 and demonstrates their potential relevance to cardiovascular disease.

Among patients hospitalized for accidental injuries, those harmed by guns are more likely to have a history of violence and are at high risk of committing a violent crime in the future, according to a new study from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Anne Turner, associate professor of health services at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) for her significant contributions to the field.

Turner is among 23 new fellows who will be inducted into the College at this year’s annual symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association on November 13 in Chicago. She is also an associate professor of biomedical informatics and medical education at the University of Washington.

Breastfeeding mothers can safely take antiretroviral medicine to prevent HIV infection without posing a risk to their babies, according to a new study from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

The University of Washington School of Public Health has partnered with the UW’s School of Medicine and School of Dentistry to oversee an academic summer program that will prepare underrepresented and minority students for careers in the health sciences. The six-week Summer Health Profession Education Program (SHPEP) is funded by a $355,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

From Interim Dean Joel Kaufman and the SPH Diversity Committee (Oct. 10, 2016)

Dear students, staff and faculty:

Last spring, many of you engaged in heartfelt discussions on race, equity and privilege at the University and the School of Public Health. Activist groups issued demands, more than 250 people attended an all-School forum, and work groups were formed under the auspices of the School’s Diversity Committee. We heard you loud and clear, and we acknowledge there is much more work to be done.

SEATTLE—Warmer weather is related to an increase in traumatic injuries for outdoor agricultural workers in central and eastern Washington. These findings, which appear October 7 in PLOS ONE, come from a study by researchers at the University of Washington and the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries’ SHARP Program.

Sylvia Badon likes to cite Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Franklin may have been speaking about fire safety, but Badon, a fourth-year PhD candidate in epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health, uses the quote to explain her motivation to improve the health of communities by preventing diseases.

Caleb Banta-Green, an affiliate associate professor of health services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and senior research scientist at the UW’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, was awarded the state’s Public Health Leadership Award for his extensive work in drug abuse epidemiology.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health have partnered with local, state and national organizations to help diverse elderly populations manage depression and social isolation.

For more than a decade, the Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) within the School’s Department of Health Services has disseminated a highly effective depression care management program called PEARLS, or Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives.