Category: Research
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National Public Health Week: Community collaboration
Fitting with today’s National Public Health Week (#NPHW) theme, “Community Collaboration and Resilience,” we are sharing how the UW Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) partnered with community organizations to create a COVID-19 Information Navigator Training to support bilingual community members.
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New anti-racism research center
There is a new research center in the department — the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH), which will serve as a community-driven academic hub focused on the critical interrogation and disruption of racism and racialization within systems.
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Evaluating a free meal program for U.S. schools
Jessica Jones-Smith and her team are hoping to better understand the effects of a free meals policy on child obesity, as well as estimate the policy’s effect on population-level obesity disparities by race, ethnicity, and income.
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Faculty member Kemi Doll examines endometrial cancer screening disparities
Dr. Kemi Doll, an adjunct associate professor in the department, is a the lead author on a publication about how signs of endometrial cancer in Black women are frequently missed by transvaginal ultrasounds, a current non-invasive screening tool.
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New name better reflects our outstanding department
We are now the Department of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop). The new name for the department was selected using a collaborative, inclusive process that involved department faculty, staff, and students.
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Alum M. Courtney Hughes addresses racial disparities in hospice care use
White patients with terminal illness utilize hospice services about 30% more than their counterparts of color. This inequity is concerning, because hospice care has been shown to improve the patient’s quality of life and the experience for family members.
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Faculty member Amy Hagopian amplifies police violence as threat to public health
This project is a natural extension of Hagopian’s broader work, which focuses on social justice problems that undermine public health, such as war, homelessness, income inequality, racism, and incarceration. Hagopian is also an HSPop alum.
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Study finds vaccine distrust within incarcerated populations
In a study led by Marc Stern, a HSPop ffiliate assistant professor, fewer than half of inmates in jails and prisons surveyed said they would accept a COVID-19 vaccine.
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CHIPS welcomes a new associate director
The Center for Health Innovation and Policy Science welcomes Layla Booshehri as the associate director, a the newly created position. Before being selected as the associate director, she served as an investigator with the center.