Category: Team Updates
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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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Faculty member Christoph Lee receives top yale med alumni award
Congratulations to adjunct professor Christoph Lee, who was just awarded the 2020 Yale School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Service Award, Yale Med’s highest alumni honor.
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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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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.
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HIHIM program welcomes Andrea Vargas as the program advisor and student services manager
Andrea Vargas joined the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Health Information Management program. Learn more about her.
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Faculty member Ruth Etzioni co-authors data science textbook
Ruth Etzioni co-authored a new textbook, “Statistics for Health Data Science: An Organic Approach.” The textbook brings together key statistical ideas that are foundational for contemporary investigators in health services, health outcomes, and health policy.
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We stand with the School of Public Health in our commitment to truth, justice, and democracy
We stand with leaders in the UW School of Public Health in condemning the horrific events of January 6, 2020, and remain firm in our commitment to truth, justice, and democracy. We will continue to work to affirm our values in the comings weeks and months.