The School's Center for Public Health Nutrition will help evaluate a program designed to boost consumption of fruits and vegetables among people with low income.

The Washington State Department of Health and 60 partners were awarded a $5.86 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote purchase of fruits and vegetables by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) clients. The program provides cash incentives at the point of purchase in farmers’ markets and grocery stores.

The Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) within the University of Washington School of Public Health has been named the Coordinating Center of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Brain Research Network. The network was created to address a pair of growing public health challenges: promoting cognitive health and addressing the needs of increasing numbers of older Americans living with cognitive impairment.

The network comprises five institutions, all of which are CDC Prevention Research Centers:

Relief activities in Nepal will last indefinitely, but after that the real effects of the devastating earthquake will emerge and continue for years, said UW School of Public Health graduate student Biraj Karmacharya, a native of Nepal.

Blocking cellphones inside of cars and filming teens while they drive could reduce distracted driving, according to research from the University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Why? Why? Why?

Hundreds of University of Washington Health Sciences students were encouraged to keep asking the "why" question last week during the fourth and final session of a year-long Interprofessional Education Initiative (IPE) program.

The topic was pediatric dental caries, or tooth decay, a major public health problem. The exercise was part of an effort to get professional students to consider the root causes of a larger health issue rather than focusing solely on the individual patient.

Obesity rates may have leveled off in the United States, but don't expect a sigh of relief from Shiriki Kumanyika.

"You don't want to say it's good news, because it's leveling off at high rates," said Kumanyika, a pioneering obesity researcher who is visiting the University of Washington this week.

Three doctoral candidates from the Department of Epidemiology have won prestigious F31 research fellowship grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Ann Downer, a pioneer of distance learning at the University of Washington, has been named winner of the UW's 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award.

Downer is founding director of the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) within the Department of Global Health.

PhD candidate and newly named Magnuson Scholar Anjuli Wagner is working to improve ways to find HIV-positive children in Kenya who slip through the cracks.

The fifth-year epidemiology student at the University of Washington School of Public Health conducts research for a study appropriately called CATCH – Counseling and Testing for Children at Home.

A lower percentage of children are eating fast food on any given day and calories consumed by children from burger, pizza and chicken fast-food restaurants also has dropped, according to research from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

More than 125 colleagues and friends of King Holmes, founding chair of the department of Global Health, have contributed above $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship in his name. The intent is to recruit and retain distinguished Global Health faculty who are committed to research and teaching in the field of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and AIDS.

"Seattle's a great place for big data and science in general," says Patrick Heagerty, professor and chair of the School's Department of Biostatistics, which tied with Harvard for the honor of top biostatistics program, according to US News & World Report's graduate school rankings. "It's really a great time for biostatistics and quantitative research."

Remember Vioxx? The painkiller helped many but increased the risk of heart attacks in others. It was withdrawn from the market in 2004, nearly five years after it was introduced.

Although it takes years of extensive testing for new drugs and medical products to reach the market, negative side effects may not become apparent even then.

Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) are useful tools to promote public health because they raise awareness of health issues among decision-makers, according to a new paper from the Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington School of Public Health.

A group of MPH students is working to "undo racism" across the School and community.

CORE – the Committee on Oppression, Racism, and Education – was formed in fall 2013 by students from the Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Program in the Department of Health Services. Its mission is "to push anti-racism as a model and value for our own lives, institutions, organizations, and communities."

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health helped develop a protocol to test for TB in easy-to-obtain oral swab samples, greatly improving upon existing detection methods.