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The Role of Patient Decision Aids: Supporting High-Quality Patient-Centered Healthcare
Patient decision aids are evidence-based tools to support shared decision-making between patients and clinicians. Dr. Logan Trenaman, assistant professor, recently co-authored a Cochrane Review of these aids which re-affirmed previous findings. “Compared to usual care, patient decision aids increase patients’ knowledge, their participation in decision-making, and help them make decisions that are aligned with their…
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Mayra Muratalla Muñoz receives Latinx Scholars Fellowship for advocacy work in Latinx communities
Online Master of Public Health (MPH) student Mayra Muratalla Muñoz has received the Latinx Scholars Graduate School Fellowship for her engagement with Latinx communities.
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Connecting academia and community en route to public health
“I am from community. I am part of community. I value community-oriented work and I am going to continue along this route. I strongly believe that the only way to do public health is to connect academia and community.”
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Championing health equity at home, school, and within communities
When PhD student Shanise Owens was little, her mother would say to her, “If you don’t do it at home first, then how can I trust that you will do it in public?” Owens believes championing health equity in our communities starts with prioritizing EDI work within the School.
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Improving health and the human condition – Dr. Helene D. Gayle
“Think big, think bold and believe in the possible. Let passion be your guide and let the unexpected become the expected.” – Helene D. Gayle
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Rabi Yunusa named 2024 MLK Service Awardee for her community-based public health work
Rabi Yunusa has made community-based work central to everything she does as a faculty at SPH. For her work, she received the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. Given annually by the UW Health Sciences schools and UW Medicine, this award honors individuals or groups who exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles through commitment…
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HSPop faculty named leadership in new Learning Health System Scientist Training and Research Center
The Washington-based center will be led in part by professor India Ornelas, assistant professor Maggie Ramirez, and adjunct associate professor Allison Cole of the Department of Health Systems and Population Health in the University of Washington’s School of Public Health and the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute.
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UW expert on the rise and risks of artificial sweeteners
“The growing presence of (non-sugar sweeteners) in the food supply, combined with mounting concerns about their use… suggest that caution in adding them to foods and beverages is needed.” HSPop clinical professor James Krieger recently published a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on the rise and risks of artificial sweeteners.
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Lalani Appointed to HIMSS Social Determinants of Health Committee
Karima Lalani has been appointed to the Social Determinants of Health Committee by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
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Donald Chi and Yup’ik communities partner to improve oral health of Alaskan Native children
Sugary drinks have negative health impacts. Chi’s partnership with Native Alaskan communities has been working to improve oral health.
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