Population Health

October 19, 2021

Winter 2022 undergraduate course highlights 91̽»¨population health research

Image of student attending a classThe Population Health Initiative is continuing its partnership with the 91̽»¨’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures during winter quarter 2022 that focus on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.

The Research Exposed! () 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, staff, alumni and members of the community.

The course will meet Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Gould Hall 322. The speakers and topics for this quarter are:

Date Speaker Topic Unit
1/5 Sophie Pierszalowski
Derek Fulwiler
Course introduction
Introduction to population health
URP
Population Health Initiative
1/12 The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
1/19 Police Violence as a Threat to Public Health School of Law
1/26 Supporting equitable land management decisions through the characterization of wildfire and prescribed smoke exposure for at-risk communities School of Public Health
2/2 Using health technology to improve the chronic health conditions of children School of Nursing
2/9 Trauma focused mental health care in low-resource settings College of Arts & Sciences
2/16 Coronavirus Risk Communication: How Age and Communication Format Affect Risk Perception and Behaviors College of Engineering
2/23 Aquaponic food production in cities College of Built Environments
3/2 Sophie Pierszalowski and students Undergraduate research panel URP
3/9 Amanda Hornby, Linda Whang, Emilie Vrbancic Undergraduate research tutorial 91̽»¨Libraries

This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.

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