Population Health

March 26, 2022

Paper in The Lancet offers guidance to help low- and middle-income countries cut early mortality from non-communicable diseases.

Children of UW Medicine employees received their initial COVID-19 vaccinations at an event in Shoreline, WA on Nov. 3, 2021.
February 25, 2022

As COVID-19 restrictions start to lift in Washington state, the latest data reveals that many children still need to be vaccinated.

September 26, 2018

The program’s genome centers will generate data from participants of a wide variety of backgrounds to improve precision medicine.

September 18, 2018

Not everyone agrees there is a sperm apocalypse and that the demise of the human race is imminent.  

August 23, 2018

Three million deaths in 2016 were attributed to alcohol, which carries "massive health risks," according to a paper today in The Lancet.

February 21, 2018

The identifier "population neuroscience" evokes the collaboration needed to make headway against brain diseases, says UW Alzheimer's expert.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to the American Lung Association. There are no effective medicines that reduce mortality from the disease.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) announced today, Wednesday, Jan. 25, the foundation’s commitment to invest $279 million in IHME to expand its work over the

Kenny Sherr heads the world’s only Ph.D. program in implementation science, based in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health.

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