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The five-year study funded by the National Institute on Aging will provide cutting-edge imaging and blood-based biomarker data for researchers worldwide to advance Alzheimer’s and related dementias research.
Rabi Yunusa connects public health students with the community to learn valuable public health lessons
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month. Practitioners share a message of action and hope for saving lives.
5 questions for DEOHS Teaching Professor Tania Busch Isaksen. The UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) recently changed the name of our Bachelor of Science degree to Environmental Public Health.
Health equity, gender-affirming care, and access to culturally relevant foods were among the most popular stories from the School of Public Health in 2023
Sugary drinks have negative impacts on children's health. Here’s how one faculty’s partnership with Native Alaska communities has been working to change that.
UW SPH alum Brandi Reano shares her thoughts on how to improve health equity among Indigenous communities, and advice for public health students entering the workforce.
AIDS / HIV researchers Drs. Connie Celum and Chase Cannon
Biostatistics faculty Peter Gilbert was tasked with a puzzle during the pandemic: finding an antibody marker that could determine whether a COVID vaccine was working.
Dr. Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, to assume the role of chair of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop).
Hang Yin, Ph.D. student in the Institute for Public Health Genetics program, shares her thoughts on how to improve health equity when it comes to public health genetics, her research goals and the impact she hopes they will have, and advice for new students.
Doctoral student Diane Xue describes the importance of bringing a public health perspective to genetics research.
The 2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects placed the UW in the top 10 internationally for public health.
The UW’s Population Health Initiative awards tier 1 pilot grants to six projects involving SPH faculty.
The number of people diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, has risen steadily over the past few decades. However, death rates from melanoma have not, which has raised concerns about overdiagnosis within the medical community.