December 5, 2019
Winter 2020 undergraduate course highlights 91探花population health research
The Population Health Initiative has again partnered with the 91探花’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures during winter quarter 2020 that focus on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.
The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391) course will feature faculty from a number of disciplines discussing their population health-related research. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is open to all interested faculty, students, sta铿�, alumni and members of the community.
The course will meet Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Odegaard Library 220. The speakers and topics for this quarter are:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Unit |
| 1/8 | Jessica Salvador Derek Fulwiler |
Course introduction Introduction to population health |
URP Population Health Initiative |
| 1/15 | The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | |
| 1/22 | EarthGames: Videogames to shape our future | College of the Environment | |
| 1/29 | The sentinel: Lab medicine鈥檚 role in population health | School of Medicine | |
| 2/5 | The influence of paternal incarceration on poverty | College of Arts & Sciences | |
| 2/12 | Studying the effects of Seattle鈥檚 soda tax | School of Public Health | |
| 2/19 | Pamela Collins | Global mental health | Schools of Medicine and Public Health |
| 2/26 | Oral health inequities in children | Schools of Dentistry and Public Health | |
| 3/4 | Jessica Salvador and students | Undergraduate research panel | URP |
This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic A铿�airs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.