The University of Washington School of Public Health is pleased to welcome Craig Brownson as the new assistant dean for finance and administration. Brownson brings with him 15 years of finance, project and operations leadership experience in academic medicine and has most recently served as associate director for clinical programs and finance in the Department of Surgery at the UW School of Medicine since 2016.

In this Q&A, Sabica Nasar (PH-GH, ’22) describes the importance of social determinants of health and systems thinking to improve health outcomes at a population level.

Olivia Brandon’s interests in health care swing from micro to macro. She loves sodium — not the variety most of us love at dinner time — but the element sodium and its impact on infant health. She’s so passionate, her lab peers will tell you she’s salty about it.

There’s a line Brittney Dias wrote that’s been serving as inspiration for herself and the children she writes for: “No matter the time, no matter the day, Ava and Mae find a way.” Ava and Mae are two Black girls and protagonists of a children’s book series written by Dias. Their message of perseverance also speaks to the work Dias is committed to, which is to increase diverse representation of main characters in children’s media.

The University of Washington School of Public Health is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Public Health-Global Health (PH-GH) major, a milestone marking the growth of interdisciplinary public health undergraduate offerings around the country that are training the next generation of public health-minded professionals. 

 

Affording food is such a challenge in Washington state that residents who experience food insecurity say their grocery bills are their biggest source of financial stress, more so than paying for rent or utilities.

Brandon Madrigal-Corona, a merit scholarship recipient from the American Health Information Management Association, shares why he chose to major in Health Informatics.

Health Informatics students Jennifer Kim and Brandon Madrigal-Corona win American Health Information Management Association scholarships.

Elle Lett, PhD, MA, MBiostat, a statistician-epidemiologist and physician-in-training, visited the University of Washington in January for a two-day lecture series on intersectional and anti-racist public health research.

Jennifer Kim, a merit scholarship recipient from the American Health Information Management Association, shares why she chose to major in Health Informatics.

Whatever hopes any of us might have had about 2023 bringing change for the better have been crushed under the weight of a January that began with the beating and killing of Tyre Nichols, reverberated with a series of tragic mass shootings, and culminated with the release of the horrific video of Memphis police assaulting Mr. Nichols.

For more than 25 years, Collins has been a mental health advocate for communities around the globe through her research, science policy leadership, and global health practice.

Kenneth Mugwanya's research has led him from studying which drugs can prevent HIV, to determining their safety, to understanding how to deliver them to the people who need them the most.

Associate Professor Jennifer Otten hopes to boost public health in Washington with a holistic approach to food systems

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate incidents were a significant and acute issue for marginalized racial and ethnic groups. These groups experienced higher odds of various acts of discrimination compared to white individuals, from receiving poorer service at restaurants or stores to being threatened and harassed.