Population Health

Students and professors show the diverse research, opportunities, and learning at the UW through this photoset.

Associate professor of anthropology, Dan Eisenberg, discusses research into genetic links to longevity.

Associate director of the Program on the Environment, Kristi Straus, shares tips for living more sustainably in the winter.

Kristina Scharp, assistant professor of communication, discusses why college students get homesick and how they can ease these feelings.

Linguistics professor Emily Bender discusses the implications of potentially biased AI.

Sociology Professor Christine Leibbrand discusses the effects that moving away from segregated hometowns have on African Americans.

Alum Jill Higson (BA, 1996, Communication) discusses the human touch handwriting can bring to communication.

Selin Gülgöz, psychology professor, discusses the results of a UW study on gender identity in transgender children.

Psychology Professor Jane Simoni discusses whether peer support groups can help those living with HIV.

A biology professor encouraged Jacob Ball to push beyond "comfortable" teaching. Now Ball is doing that halfway around the world.

Graham Pruss, University of Washington lecturer, discusses the socioeconomic reasons behind why families live in vehicles.

Political Science Professor Aseem Prakash makes the case for green holiday shopping.

Jane Simoni, a psychology professor, explains whether peer support programs can help those living with HIV.

UW sociologist Christine Leibbrand and her co-authors examined residency among children whose fathers were in prison, or recently released, at the time of data collection.

University of Washington faculty studied the effects of the Seattle school district's later school start time policy, finding that students got more sleep with later start times.