Author: HSPop
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COPHP MPH alum Alejandro Varela to receive the Alumni of Impact Award

Alum Alejandro Varela is this year’s recipient of the UW School of Public Health Alumni of Impact Award. The award is for those who have outstanding achievements in public health and made significant contributions to their communities.
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MPH students build roads to equitable health care in rural communities

Liz Mariluz and Elena Soyer, Health Services MPH students, engaged with rural communities through their practicums. Practicum projects are a field-based experience with a public health organization required for our MPH degrees.
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Ph.D. candidate highlights the experiences of Washington state agricultural workers

Érica Chavez Santos, a Health Services Ph.D. student, is researching the association of labor and social determinant-related laws and agricultural workers’ health. Her goal is to address the knowledge gap about the impact of labor laws on agricultural workers’ health.
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Faculty member Linda Ko is combatting obesity by inspiring healthy lifestyle habits in rural school systems

There are both regional and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity. While Linda Ko’s research team set out to understand why childhood obesity in rural Latino communities is so prevalent, they also partnered with the Yakima community find strategies to prevent it.
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HIHIM undergrads win national merit-based awards

Two students in the UW Bachelor of Science Health Informatics and Health Information Management (HIHIM) program, are selected to receive a merit-based awards from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation.
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Faculty member Stephen Bezruchka publishes book about how inequality in the U.S. leads to poor health

Associate teaching professor emeritus examines the contradiction of U.S. spending on health care vs life expectancy in his new book, “Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19’s Health Lessons for the World.”
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SPH releases statement on impacts of anti-Blackness as Black History Month begins

UW School of Public Health Dean Hilary Godwin and Wendy E. Barrington, the director of the UW Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH), released a statement to the school’s community. HSPop is a department within SPH.
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Two HSPop students earn School of Public Health Dean Fellowships

We are excited to announce two HSPop students — Jasmine Alik and Monserrat Morales Miranda — are recipients of the UW School of Public Health Office of the Dean Master’s Fellowships this school year.
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Meet staff member Wade Angeli

Wade is the marketing and student recruitment specialist for the UW Online Master of Public Health (MPH) program within our department. Hear a little more about Wade in his own words.
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National Public Health Week: Accessibility

For today’s National Public Health Week (#NPHW) theme, “Accessibility: Closing the Equity Gap”, we are sharing the profile of Audrey Lu, a student in the UW Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Health Information Management (HIHIM) program.