The 91爆料 is proud to announce that 56 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at 91爆料 have been named on the list from Clarivate.

The annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the .

Highly Cited Researchers demonstrate significant and broad influence in their fields of research. The total list includes 7,131 awards from more than 1,300 institutions in 60 countries and regions. This small fraction of the global researcher population contributes disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge and contributing to innovations that make the world healthier, more sustainable and which drive societal impact, according to Clarivate.

The that determines the 鈥渨ho鈥檚 who鈥� of influential researchers is drawn from data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate.

The list below includes faculty and researchers whose primary affiliation is with the 91爆料, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Please note: Some of the people on the list are no longer with the 91爆料 and their current affiliation is noted. This list reflects initial data from Clarivate and may be updated.

Ivan Anishchenko (Vilya)

David Baker

William A. Banks

Gregory N. Bratman

Steven L. Brunton

Guozhong Cao

Ting Cao

Lauren Carter (Gates Medical Research Institute)

Helen Chu

David H. Cobden

Katharine H. D. Crawford

Riza M. Daza

Frank DiMaio

Kristie L. Ebi

Evan E. Eichler

Emmanuela Gakidou

David Ginger

Raphael Gottardo (CHUV)

Alexander L. Greninger

Simon I. Hay

Andrew Hill (Infinimmune)

Eric Huang

Michael C. Jensen (BrainChild)

Neil P.听 King

C. Dirk Keene

J. Nathan Kutz

Eric H. Larson

Aaron Lyon

Michael J. MacCoss

Brendan MacLean

C. M. Marcus

Julian D. Marshall

Ali Mokdad

Thomas J. Montine (Stanford)

Mohsen Naghavi

Marian L. Neuhouser

Julian D. Olden

Robert W. Palmatier

David Pigott

Hannah A. Pliner (Bristol Myers Squibb)

Ganesh Raghu

Stanley Riddell

Andrea Schietinger (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Jay Shendure

M. Alejandra Tortorici

Troy R. Torgerson (Allen Institute)

Cole Trapnell

Katherine R. Tuttle

David Veesler

Theo Vos

Alexandra C. Walls (BioNTech SE)

Bryan J. Weiner

Di Xiao

Jie Xiao

Xiaodong Xu

Jihui Yang

America鈥檚 homeless services system relies on a massive amount of data, and at first glance, that data is exacting. Federal reports describe the country鈥檚 unhoused population in granular detail, listing precisely how many people are experiencing homelessness in each city along with detailed demographic data. Want to know how many people ages 55-64 slept outside in Spokane last year? A spreadsheet confidently provides the answer: 听

That data influences decisions at every level of government, from how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) distributes $3 billion in funding to how local service providers target their outreach efforts. It鈥檚 also . As a result, communities across the country 鈥� including King County 鈥� don’t really know exactly how many of their residents are unhoused and have a limited window into people鈥檚 circumstances and needs. 听

So, a team of 91爆料 researchers designed a better way to count. Led by , a 91爆料 associate professor of sociology, and , professor emeritus of health systems and population health, researchers developed a method that taps into people鈥檚 social networks to generate a more representative sample, which they use to estimate the total unhoused population. Along the way, agency staff and volunteers gather information on people鈥檚 demographics, resources and needs. 听

The researchers launched this method in partnership with King County in 2022 and repeated the process in 2024, publishing their findings . 91爆料 News sat down with Almquist and Hagopian to discuss their new approach and how it could help close the gaps in our understanding of homelessness in America.听

Statistics on homelessness and the demographics of unhoused populations are often quite specific. The federal government reported that on a single night in January 2023, for example. How do we get these statistics, and how reliable are they?听听

Amy Hagopian: I鈥檓 always a little amused at numbers that create a false specificity; for example, an airline says my flight will arrive in Chicago at 11:33 a.m. Everyone knows that number isn鈥檛 true, except sometimes by accident, and yet we entertain the airline by pretending to believe the number. After all, there are no consequences for being wrong!听

The national count is an amalgamation of counts reported by each community鈥檚 jurisdiction, designed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Most jurisdictions are still attempting a single-night head count of people found by volunteers who move about in the dark with flashlights and clipboards 鈥� a highly problematic approach King County has abandoned in favor of our sampling method. When these numbers come in, HUD just adds them up, and of course the number won鈥檛 be round. We all know it鈥檚 way below the actual number, because a middle-of-the-night census isn鈥檛 going to find everyone.听

Zack Almquist: There is a common fiction that when we do a census it is exact, because government reports often do not provide a margin of error. I think if you asked many experts, they would say they know the reality is a range, not a single number. In fact, not providing a range provides a level of confidence that we really don鈥檛 have, regardless of how we get there.

One nice thing about using a statistical estimate is that people are trained to expect a margin of error or confidence interval. We can say, plus or minus 5%, or 100-200 people. In other words, by moving into a space where we expect to see a range, we can be more honest, and ideally be more prepared to handle the real situation.听

Why does it matter how accurate this data is?听

AH: America has the worst homelessness problem in the world created by an economic system 鈥� as opposed to war and other disasters 鈥� largely because we make no attempt to recognize the human right to housing as established by the United Nations. One reason to count by jurisdiction is to learn where the hot spots are, and which areas have managed to lower their counts, and why. 听

ZA: This is also an equity and respect issue for the people who are experiencing homelessness. We owe it to our community members to do our best to capture the real state of the problem in our area and to best represent their race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, and causal or associated factors like eviction. We cannot hope to adequately engage a problem if we can鈥檛 accurately quantify it.

Your team developed a new method to estimate the unhoused population. How does your method work, and how does it differ from the traditional PIT count?听听

ZA: Our method takes the approach that there is no reliable way for us to obtain a census of people living unsheltered in our community, and that we need to move from a biased counting exercise to an approach that leverages modern statistical methods to obtain a best estimate of the population given our current resources. Modern sampling methods can improve how we count people. Sampling is the process of selecting a small group from a larger population to study and make conclusions about the entire population.听

We leveraged a sampling strategy that comes out of public health literature and is endorsed by the National Institutes of Health and World Health Organization. First, we collect a roster and bed count from shelters. The HUD-mandated Point-in-Time count was always split between the roster or bed count and an unsheltered count; the latter was historically counted in King County by a visual census. So, the total number of people experiencing homelessness is the number of people in emergency shelters on a given night plus the number of people living outside on a given night. Through some ratios and algebra, we can estimate the total number of people if we know who slept in an emergency shelter and know from historical measures the relative proportion of people who slept outside. 听

Our sampling strategy of leveraging people鈥檚 social networks and peer referral allows us to estimate the proportion of people who slept outside to those who slept in an emergency shelter on a given night. Further, this allows us to better find and count people who would be hard to find in the traditional visual census 鈥� people living in the woods or hiding 鈥� and also provides a clear method for the margin of error of our estimate of the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.听

Your count creates a more reliable estimate of the unhoused population, but that鈥檚 not all. What other information can you collect with this method, and how might it be useful?听听

AH: When other jurisdictions do their midnight census counts, they are just counting bodies seen. There is no opportunity to collect demographic or life history or health status data unless they shake people awake and interview them in the moment, which few people do. Instead, they conduct a post-count interview process in places like food banks. Our approach provides the opportunity to count people during daylight hours while also learning something about their life course and circumstances. This provides King County with some valuable information about the causes of homelessness. Once we move towards a quarterly count, we can also learn about the 鈥渃hurn鈥� —听the number of people moving into and out of homelessness and what the drivers are for those changes in circumstance.听

ZA: I think this point can鈥檛 be emphasized enough, as running a post-count survey is almost always conducted as a spatial convenience sample that surveys both those using emergency shelters and those who slept outside. It鈥檚 unlikely to include the same people who were in the one-night body count. 听

What have you heard from people who鈥檝e participated in your method? How do participants鈥� experiences differ from the old Point-In-Time count?听

AH: We conducted a couple of focus groups recently with people experiencing homelessness in Seattle. We asked them about their impressions of the recent methods change in how we count. We found people appreciated the motivations behind the change, and the more respectful approach we are now using.听听

ZA: I just want to second what Amy said, and to point out that people really appreciate being directly engaged with and having a chance to be paid for their time and effort.听

How else could this method be used? Are there potential applications outside of homelessness and housing services?听听

AH: I have helped conduct mortality counts in war zones, and some of the lessons learned from those experiences were helpful here. For example, in Iraq conducted a door-to-door survey to ask adult household members to tell us about the alive or dead status of their siblings. This allowed us to calculate a total war-related mortality rate for the country, as our sample was selected proportionate to size of the governorate sampled. 听

ZA: I think the basic ideas used here could end up influencing health and demography measurement efforts for several hard-to-estimate populations. For example, international migration can often be split between those we can count with high fidelity, like registered immigrants, and unregistered immigrants. Combining new sampling methods with administrative data to count hard-to-reach populations could be employed for a number of problems in industry, health and public policy. I hope to see these ideas picked up broadly.听

AH: We are grateful to the 91爆料鈥檚 Population Health Initiative for the opportunity to develop these methods, and to our partners at King County Regional Homelessness Authority for being willing to try something new with us.听

For more information or to contact Hagopian and/or Almquist, contact Alden Woods at acwoods@uw.edu.听听

When 91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce launched the Population Health Initiative in 2016, she spoke in soaring, ambitious terms. 鈥淲e have an unprecedented opportunity to help people live longer, healthier, more productive lives 鈥� here and around the world,鈥� she said. 91爆料 researchers have leapt at that opportunity, forging connections across the university, working side by side with community partners and breaking down traditional barriers to improving public health. 听

In just eight years, the Initiative has funded 227 innovative, interdisciplinary projects. Many are focused right here in Western Washington, where projects have helped in South Seattle, identified soil contaminants in community gardens in the Duwamish Valley, and improved how community leaders along the Okanogan River . Other projects have reached across the globe, targeting health disparities in Somalia, Peru, Brazil and more.听听

鈥淚n this relatively short period of time, we鈥檝e demonstrated the power that accrues when faculty and staff across the various areas of our campuses are working together and also exposing students to the cutting-edge work of tackling grand challenges,鈥� Cauce said in her most recent .听

And they’re just getting started. Many PHI-funded projects are still in their earliest stages, leveraging initial funding to show proof-of-concept for their ideas and setting the stage for future work. Fourteen projects so far have received much larger grants to empower researchers and community partners to expand successful projects and scale up for greater impact.听

With the Initiative now a third of the way into its 25-year vision, 91爆料 News checked in with three projects that recently received funding to scale their efforts.听

Spotting potential memory health issues in rural Washington

Diagnosing memory health issues in the best of circumstances is extraordinarily difficult. Patients typically make multiple visits to their doctor and take a many of which can produce flawed results 鈥� people who take the same test more than once, for example, will often score higher, potentially masking memory loss. 听

It鈥檚 even harder in rural America, which has a Patients seeking memory care might have to make a long, expensive trip to a major city, which leads many people to wait until a problem becomes apparent. By then, it鈥檚 often too late 鈥� modern treatments can slow the progress of memory loss, but there鈥檚 no way to regain what鈥檚 been lost.听

鈥淪o, how do you catch it early?鈥� said , a 91爆料 associate professor of psychology. 鈥淲e give people an app to have them check for themselves.鈥澨�听

Stocco and , director of the 91爆料 Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Research Center, together with Hedderik van Rijn of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, led the development of an online program that can measure a person鈥檚 memory and predict their risk of memory disorders. Like a flash-card app that helps students cram for a test, the program shows pictures and asks the user to recall what they saw a few minutes earlier. The app records how quickly and accurately the user responds to each question and makes the next one a little easier or more difficult.听听

Researchers have long understood that a person鈥檚 ability to recall a specific memory tends to fade over time. This is called the 鈥�.鈥� In听 Stocco and van Rijn found that they could measure individual differences in the slopes of such curves.听 The app works by comparing a person鈥檚 responses to an internal model of forgetting and adjusting the slope of the model until it matches the responses. The resulting slope can be used to estimate the likelihood that their memory is fading faster than normal.听听

By taking the test regularly, a person can track their memory鈥檚 decline over time. But preliminary tests, Stocco said, have shown that even a single use can spot a potential problem.听

鈥淛ust by looking at a single lesson, based on the result, there鈥檚 almost a perfect correspondence between the speed of forgetting and your probability of being diagnosed by a doctor,鈥� Stocco said. 鈥淚t can be as accurate as the best clinical tests but, instead of taking two or three hours, this can be done in eight minutes, and you don鈥檛 need a doctor.鈥�听

A Tier 3 grant from the Population Health Initiative and a collaboration with the will allow the researchers to share the app with up to 500 people in rural and counties. Participants can take the test on their own time, and the results will be shared with researchers. If a potential problem emerges, the researchers plan to invite participants to Seattle for an in-person evaluation.听听

鈥淚t鈥檚 a solution that seems to solve these problems of early access and diagnostic bottlenecks,鈥� Stocco said. 鈥淚f this works, there鈥檚 no problem giving it to everybody in the state. We鈥檙e really interested in expanding and adding people from underrepresented populations and underrepresented areas, and the grant will allow us to do that.鈥�听

Nancy Spurgeon of the Central Washington Area Health Education Center is also a collaborator on the project to test the prototype app, which is not yet available to the public.听

Revamping the Point-In-Time Count to better understand King County鈥檚 unhoused population听

For years, volunteers fanned across King County on a cold night each January, flashlights and clipboards in hand, searching for people sleeping outside. They鈥檇 also gather the shelter head counts for that night. Officially called the , this effort attempted to tally the number of people who lacked stable housing. This endeavor was replicated in cities across the country, and the results were combined to create a national count that influences how the federal government allocates funding.听

There鈥檚 just one problem 鈥� the count is Volunteers can鈥檛 possibly find everybody. It captures only a single moment in time, and collects only limited data on people鈥檚 circumstances or personal needs. A person sleeping in their car might need different services than a person who sleeps in a tent, and the count didn鈥檛 fully capture that distinction.听

So, a team of 91爆料 researchers designed a better way to count. Their method, detailed in a published Sept. 4 in in the American Journal of Epidemiology, taps into people鈥檚 social networks to generate a more representative sample, which the researchers then ran through a series of calculations to estimate the total unhoused population.听听听

Called 鈥渞espondent-driven sampling,鈥� the method stations volunteers in common 鈥渉ubs,鈥� like libraries or community centers, and offers cash gift cards for in-person interviews and peer referrals. Volunteers collect detailed information on people鈥檚 circumstances and needs, giving each person three tickets to share with their unhoused peers. When those peers come in for an interview and show the ticket, the person who referred them receives another small reward. The new person gets a gift card and another three tickets.听

鈥淭his method gives people a more active voice in being counted. It鈥檚 a more humane way to count people, and it鈥檚 also voluntary,鈥� said , a 91爆料 associate professor of sociology and co-lead on the project. 鈥淭he regular PIT (Point-In-Time) count just counted people. Now we can collect all sorts of information from people on their circumstances and their needs. Should policymakers want to, they could leverage that data to change service offerings.鈥�听

The researchers received a Tier 2 grant to develop the system. They launched it in partnership with King County in 2022 and 2024, and were recently awarded a Tier 3 grant to test out the feasibility of running it quarterly.听听

鈥淩unning the count quarterly allows us to estimate how many people move in and out of homelessness and whether there are seasonal changes, which are rarely measured,鈥� Almquist said. 鈥淎lso, people鈥檚 needs change depending on the time of year, and this method will help us better understand those rhythms.鈥澨�听

Other cities and counties have expressed interest, the researchers said. The team has also begun to expand the effort, aiming to improve data across the broad spectrum of housing and homelessness services.听听

鈥淎 very important byproduct of this work across schools and departments at 91爆料 is that we can create an ecosystem of people and projects,鈥� said , a 91爆料 professor emeritus of health systems and population health and co-lead on the project. 鈥淲e鈥檝e spun off projects on sleep assessments, relationships with organizations that collect data on homelessness, and we鈥檙e mapping the sweeps of encampments in relationship to where people choose to be located. We have a whole network of homelessness-related research now.听

鈥淭hese PHI grants gave us the fuel to ignite these projects.鈥�听

Other collaborators are of the 91爆料 Department of Health Systems and Population Health and of the VA Health Services Research and Development; of the 91爆料 Departments of Sociology and Statistics; of the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the eScience Institute; and Owen Kajfasz, Janelle Rothfolk and Cathea Carey of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.听

Engaging community to mitigate flood risk in the Duwamish Valley听

More than a century ago, Seattle leaders set out to control and redirect the Duwamish River. They dredged the riverbed and dug out its twists and turns. Wetlands were filled in, the valley was paved over and a system of hydrology was severed. What had been a wild, winding river valley with regular flooding became an angular straightaway built for industry. But when 91爆料 postdoctoral scholar looks out at the Duwamish, she sees the river fighting back.听听

鈥淭he water was always there,鈥� Jeranko said, 鈥渁nd now it鈥檚 fighting to come back up.鈥澨�听

The river returned with devastating effect in December 2022, when a king tide and heavy rainfall , submerging homes and shuttering local businesses. The underserved neighborhood faces a significant risk of future floods.听

To mitigate that risk, the City of Seattle has updated the neighborhood鈥檚 stormwater drainage system and launched a new flood-warning system. But the , a nonprofit focused on river pollution and environmental health, saw an opportunity for something greater. The DRCC asked a team of 91爆料 researchers to help develop flood adaptation plans that are community-based, culturally responsive and that enrich the local environment.听听

鈥淚n the community, people don鈥檛 think there鈥檚 been enough engagement. There鈥檚 all this talk about flood mitigation, but all they see are sandbags,鈥� Jeranko said. 鈥淪o DRCC was like, 鈥楲ook, we really need the people who live in the flood zone to understand the solutions.鈥� Because we have this long-lasting relationship with them, they see us as someone who鈥檚 able to provide a list of solutions, not favor one over the others, and do it in an informative way.鈥�听

Boosted by a Tier 3 grant from the PHI, Jeranko and a team representing five 91爆料 departments, the Burke Museum and the DRCC are engaging with the community. This fall, the team will present the neighborhood with an expansive list of flood mitigation options and encourage city leaders to consider people鈥檚 preferences. Early work shows the community would favor nature-based solutions, Jeranko said. Floodable parks, for example, would provide ecological, recreational and public health benefits to the entire community, while storing flood water during storms.听听

鈥淚t has been wonderful to collaborate with the 91爆料 team on this to make sure we are centering community voices in every single step of the planning for climate resilience,鈥� said Paulina L贸pez, executive director of the DRCC. 鈥淐ommunity leadership and representation is indispensable to bring climate justice to the Duwamish Valley.鈥�听

Jeranko hopes their community-based model will be replicated by communities across the country facing similar risks from climate change and sea level rise.听

鈥淓ven though 91爆料 and a lot of other universities really support and invest in community-engaged work, a lot of times it鈥檚 fundamentally hard to make that research happen,鈥� Jeranko said. 鈥淏ut the Population Health Initiative grant was about supporting all those things.鈥�听

Other collaborators on the project are , and of the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences; of the Department of Landscape Architecture; of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; of the Quaternary Research Center and the Burke Museum; and L贸pez and Robin Schwartz of the DRCC.听

For more information on any of the projects mentioned, or to learn more about the 91爆料 Population Health Initiative, visit the Initiative’s website or contact Alden Woods at acwoods@uw.edu.听听

Bob Wilbur thought he鈥檇 found a retirement home that would be a place of peace. Nestled against Admiralty Bay on the western edge of Whidbey Island, the three-story house is surrounded by trees and shoreline. It offers the kind of quiet that only an island can provide. Except when the Growlers fly.听

As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at the nearby Naval Air Station Whidbey Island fly loops overhead as pilots practice touch-and-go landings. The noise is immense, around the level of a loud rock concert. 鈥淚t interrupts your day,鈥� Wilbur said. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e unable to have a pleasant evening at home. You can鈥檛 communicate. You constantly try to organize your day around being gone when the jets are flying.鈥�听

New research from the 91爆料 shows that the noise isn鈥檛 just disruptive 鈥� it presents a substantial risk to public health. in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, an analysis of the Navy鈥檚 own acoustic monitoring data found that more than 74,000 people are exposed to noise levels with adverse health effects.听听

“Military aircraft noise is substantially more intense and disturbing than commercial jet noise,鈥� said lead author , a graduate student in the 91爆料 College of the Environment. 鈥淣oise exposure has many downstream effects beyond just annoyance and stress 鈥� high levels of sleep disturbance, hearing impairment, increased risk of cardiovascular disease 鈥� these have real impacts on human health and quality of life. We also found that several schools in the area are exposed to levels that have been shown to put children at risk of delayed learning.鈥�

Guided by conversations with community members and local advocacy groups, researchers analyzed four weeks of acoustic and flight operations data , in addition to prior-year data collected by a private acoustics company and the National Park Service. Researchers then mapped noise exposure across the region to estimate how much noise specific communities were exposed to in an average year.听

Researchers estimated that two-thirds of Island County residents, including everyone in the cities of Oak Harbor and Coupeville, were exposed to potentially harmful levels of noise, as was 85% of the population of the Swinomish Indian Reservation. 听

In total, an estimated 74,316 people were exposed to average noise levels that posed a risk of annoyance, 41,089 of whom were exposed to nighttime noise levels associated with adverse effects on sleep. Another 8,059 people 鈥� most of whom lived within fairly close proximity to aircraft landing strips 鈥� were exposed to noise levels that can pose a risk of hearing impairment over time.听

鈥淥ur bodies produce a lot of stress hormone response to noise in general, it doesn鈥檛 matter what kind of noise it is. But particularly if it鈥檚 this repeated acute noise, you might expect that stress hormone response to be exacerbated,鈥� said co-author , a 91爆料 professor of environmental and occupational health sciences. 鈥淲hat was really interesting was that we鈥檙e reaching noise exposure levels that are actually harmful for hearing. Usually I only think of hearing in the context of working in factories or other really, really loud occupational settings. But here, we鈥檙e reaching those levels for the community.鈥�听听

Taken as a whole, the potential harms can be quite serious, Seto said. 鈥淚magine people trying to sleep, or children in school trying to understand their teachers and you鈥檝e got these jets flying.鈥�听

Every monitoring station on Whidbey Island measured noise events in excess of 100 decibels when jets were flying. In some instances, noise levels were 鈥渙ff the charts鈥� 鈥� exceeding the limits of models used to predict the health effects of noise exposure around the world. 听

鈥淲e found it striking that Growler noise exceeds the scientific community鈥檚 current understanding of the potential health outcomes,鈥� said co-author , a 91爆料 professor of aquatic and fishery sciences. 鈥淔or this reason, our estimates of health impacts are conservative.鈥�听

The noise has been the subject of community disputes and legal controversy since 2013, when the U.S. Navy moved more Growler jets onto Whidbey Island and increased the number of flights to more than 110,000 per year. Bob Wilbur is a member and the current chair of Citizens of Ebey鈥檚 Reserve, a community group that has sued the Navy over the jet noise and increased flight operations. The group also helped facilitate the 91爆料 study, and Wilbur is a co-author.听听

Like other military aircraft, the Growlers鈥� noise differs significantly from commercial jets 鈥� louder and deeper, the kind of sound that people feel before they hear.听听

“It鈥檚 the intensity, the intermittent nature of the noise, and the low-frequency energy specifically,鈥� Jacuzzi said. 鈥淭hose three things are very different than what you experience from normal commercial flights, which are predictable and high in altitude. When Growlers fly over a home, they emit a rumbling noise that penetrates windows and shakes walls.鈥澨�听

While commercial jet noise has been the subject of extensive study, research into military aircraft noise is relatively rare. Previous 91爆料-led research found that military flights were the largest cause of noise pollution on the Olympic Peninsula. While discussing that study, Whidbey residents complained that the noise disturbed their sleep and interfered with students鈥� schoolwork, which prompted this new line of inquiry. While conducting this study, researchers worked closely with community members and advocacy groups and held multiple webinars to share results and shape future work.听听

鈥淥ur research was motivated by the growing chorus of complaints by Washingtonians across multiple counties,鈥� Olden said. 鈥淲e believe the science speaks for itself. It鈥檚 no longer a question of whether noise impacts people, but how, where and how much these effects are experienced.鈥�听

Other authors are Lauren Kuehne of Omfishient Consulting, and Anne Harvey and Christine Hurley of Sound Defense Alliance. This research was funded by the 91爆料 Population Health Initiative.

For more information, contact Jacuzzi at gioj@uw.edu.听

The 91爆料鈥檚 new , or CDRC, has been selected to lead development of a workplan for a regional public health emergency preparedness and response center that will help prepare the Northwest for disasters and emergencies. 听

Under a $1.8 million contract with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 91爆料 will convene partners across Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Oregon to develop a workplan to establish a future regional Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. The 91爆料 will also support development of a tribal-specific workplan that addresses the public health emergency preparedness and response needs and priorities of tribal partners across the region, as well as develop a model for a regional data ecosystem that can support the uptake of evidence-based strategies in public health emergency preparedness and response. 听

鈥淭his funding will support a partner-driven process to shape a future center for evidence-informed public health emergency preparedness and response that serves the needs of community and government partners in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington,鈥� said , CDRC director and a 91爆料 assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences. 听

鈥淲e are really excited to bring together community, tribal, healthcare, public health practice, emergency management and other partners to identify focus areas for the center and approaches the center can take to support their work.” 听

There will be a separate competitive funding opportunity to develop the Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response itself, which will become part of a nationwide network of such centers. 听

, the CDRC brings together the full breadth and depth of the 91爆料鈥檚 expertise in disaster science to help build resilient communities. The center seeks to unite more than 100 91爆料 faculty from across the university, including disaster researchers, engineers, data and environmental scientists, as well as experts in public health, medicine, nursing and public policy and planning. 听

Those experts will offer resources, training, technical assistance and evidence-based solutions to help communities prepare themselves for potential disasters. Researchers will also collaborate with community, tribal and government partners to identify each community鈥檚 specific needs and implement tailored solutions. 听

The Center is supported by the 91爆料鈥檚 Population Health Initiative, a university-wide effort that fosters a collaborative approach to improving human health, environmental resilience, and social and economic equity. 听

For more information, contact Resham Patel at rapatel@uw.edu. 听

Update (Oct. 17, 2024): In an article , the researchers behind Medicine for a Changing Planet make the case that physicians should ask about patients’ environmental exposures when taking their histories. The 91爆料’s Dr. Peter Rabinowitz and Stanford’s Dr. Michele Barry explain why it’s important to consider these factors and how physicians can incorporate them into their practice in the above video. Video credit: Stanford University

Changes to our environment are creating new challenges: emerging disease patterns, threats to mental health, malnutrition and unpredictable natural disasters. These developments are unprecedented. Their impacts are felt across the world, most intensely in communities traditionally excluded from accumulating wealth. 听

What health professionals see in hospitals and clinics is shifting, requiring new approaches to diagnosis, treatment and advocacy.听听

To address this growing need, the 91爆料’s and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health are launching , a collection of clinical case studies supporting health professionals in providing more effective care for patients living with climate change.听听

These case studies, collated from clinical encounters around the world, support health professionals in recognizing and treating a variety of health-related conditions that can be traced to environmental stressors. Topics include infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, heat stress, physical trauma and mental health concerns.听听

鈥�We want the skills emphasized in the Medicine for a Changing Planet case studies to empower health care providers to play a more active role in the response to global environmental change,鈥� said , a 91爆料 professor of environmental and occupational health sciences who co-led the development of these case studies. 鈥淲e encourage health professionals to focus on their role as disease detectives, identifying sentinel cases of environmentally induced disease, and steps that they could take to manage such cases, both in and beyond the clinic.鈥�听

Rabinowitz is also a physician in 91爆料 Medicine鈥檚 Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Clinic and director of the 91爆料 Center for One Health Research.听

Among other things, the cases call for an expanded approach to taking a patient鈥檚 medical history. Clinicians already are trained to look out for social determinants of health, considering a patient鈥檚 occupation, lifestyle and other key factors. Now, in a rapidly changing environment, clinicians must also go a step further. The cases encourage health professionals to consider how environmental stressors, such as extreme heat, wildfires, food access and widespread pollution may impact a patient鈥檚 health.听听

Each case includes a call to action, describing ways in which clinicians can take action to advance global health. Cases encourage health professionals to work with public health authorities and other key stakeholders, and to consider ways to leverage their roles as trusted voices of authority to advance change in response to a planetary crisis.听听

This includes action in the clinic, within local communities, and at a larger societal level 鈥� advancing sustainability, developing stakeholder networks, advocating for policy changes and galvanizing grassroots efforts.听

The cases also prompt health professionals to consider how to help patients protect themselves from additional health consequences. This can mean identifying potential environmental stressors and planning steps to reduce exposure.听

鈥淟istening closely to one鈥檚 patients to understand the many factors impacting their health has always been a physician鈥檚 core responsibility,鈥� said Dr. Michele Barry, Shenson Professor and Director of the at Stanford University鈥檚 School of Medicine, and co-lead of this project. 鈥淭his is even more important now, in a time when the human-altered environment is placing unprecedented pressures on our health and well-being.鈥�听

This project deepens the 91爆料鈥檚 longstanding commitment to address the world鈥檚 most pressing challenges to health and well-being. The Population Health Initiative unites the entire 91爆料 community in that mission by fostering a collaborative approach to improving human health, environmental resilience, and social and economic equity.

, chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, said Rabinowitz is a living example of that mission.听听

鈥淪ince launching the Center for One Health Research at the 91爆料, Dr. Rabinowitz has established a rich global network of researchers and clinicians investigating emerging environmental challenges and diseases,鈥� Yost said. 鈥淗is role in assembling this new material demonstrates the 91爆料鈥檚 commitment to improving population health around the world.鈥� 听

Medicine for a Changing World鈥檚 core partners include the Global Consortium of Climate and Health Education and their new collection of , as well as the Planetary Health Alliance鈥檚 initiative.听

Adapted from a press release by Stanford University.听

For more information, reach Rabinowitz by contacting Vickie Ramirez: ramirezv@uw.edu听

Using project savings from the construction of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, the 91爆料 will fund dozens of new research projects through the Population Health Initiative鈥檚 interdisciplinary grant program. The new grants will fall into three tiers, with funding from $20,000 to $200,000 per award.

鈥淲e are delighted to have the funding capacity to be able to support the launch of roughly 75 innovative and interdisciplinary projects over the next two years,鈥� said , chief strategy officer for population health and a professor in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 鈥淲e believe our new tiered approach to granting will engage a broader range of disciplines while also incentivizing the importance of community-based research partnerships.鈥�

The tiers are:

• Laying the Foundation 鈥� for small projects and capacity-building work with community and/or other collaborators that is intended to prepare a team for future projects seeking proof-of-concept. Awards of up to $25,000 are available per project.
• Establishing Proof-of-Concept 鈥� for developing鈥痯reliminary data or proof-of-concept鈥痭eeded to pursue follow-on funding鈥痶o scale one鈥檚 efforts. Applications will be accepted from faculty members and principal investigator-eligible staff. Awards of up to鈥�$50,000鈥痯er project 鈥� or $65,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations.
• Scaling for Greater Impact 鈥� for impactful projects that have developed preliminary data or realized proof-of-concept and are seeking to scale their efforts and/or expand the scope of their work. Awards of up to $150,000 per project 鈥� or $200,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations.

In 2016, the 91爆料 launched its听Population Health Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort across the university to bring understanding and solutions to the biggest health challenges facing communities here in the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and around the world.

The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health was made possible by a $210 million gift from the听听in October 2016 and $15 million in earmarked funding from the Washington Legislature, as well as funding from the university.听The center opened to the public in the fall of 2021 and is home to the听, the听, parts of the听听and the offices of the Population Health Initiative.

The building project was undertaken through a delivery method, which resulted in a savings of roughly $6 million, and was the first and largest integrated design-build project completed on 91爆料鈥檚 campus. The design-build team was led by The Miller Hull Partnership and听Lease Crutcher Lewis.

With these new grants, the Initiative 鈥渟eeks to create a world where all people can live healthier and more fulfilling lives,鈥� as stated on its website. The grants are intended to encourage the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations for projects that address critical challenges to population health.

鈥淔aculty are at their best when you give them an opportunity to be innovative and not tell them what to do. If you come to them and say here鈥檚 the problem, you come up with the best way to solve it and then we鈥檒l support you to do so 鈥� that鈥檚 when you get the greatest ideas,鈥� Mokdad said.

The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health has won top awards in 2021 from state and national design and construction associations for both its architectural design and unique project delivery approach. The building was designed by The Miller Hull Partnership and the general contractor was Lease Crutcher Lewis.

• The in November gave the Rosling Center its category, the award for and the culminating
• The Chicago Athenaeum听Museum of Architecture and Design gave 91爆料鈥檚 building the
• The Associated General Contractors of Washington gave the Rosling Center its award for construction excellence in the category
• And, the Seattle chapter of the American Institute of Architects gave the center one of four

The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health was made possible by a $210 million gift from the听听in October 2016 and $15 million in earmarked funding from the Washington Legislature, as well as funding from the university.听The center opened to the public in the fall of 2021 and is home to the听, the 听(IHME), parts of the听听and the offices of the Population Health Initiative.

The center is a direct result of the 91爆料鈥檚听Population Health Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort across the university to bring understanding and solutions to the biggest health challenges

facing communities here in the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and around the world.

鈥淭he design for the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health draws its inspiration from the Population Health Initiative itself, with a focus on the health and wellness of its inhabitants as well as on global health issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, water preservation and material toxicity,鈥� said Whitney Pearce, an architect and project manager with Miller Hull.

The design optimizes opportunities for connection and collaboration among the building inhabitants, with program elements that support active, healthy lifestyles and workspaces that encourage working together, Pearce explained, adding that art and storytelling elements are integrated throughout the facility. These elements speak to the mission of both the building and the occupants, creating opportunities for education and inspiration.

The building project also achieved LEED Gold Certification through a number of sustainable building systems such as rainwater catchment and reuse for flushing bathroom fixtures, increased ventilation rates for improved indoor air quality, heat recovery from the West Campus Utility Plant for heating, as well as highly efficient radiant heating and cooling made possible by high-performance window and wall assemblies.

鈥淲e鈥檙e delighted the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health was recognized with these well-deserved honors,鈥� said , the university鈥檚 chief strategy officer for population health and professor of health metrics sciences at IHME. 鈥淭he intentional design of this building is going to be transformational to the university鈥檚 efforts to spur interdisciplinary collaboration to address some of the big challenges we face to our collective health and well-being.鈥�

Outdoor workers in the world鈥檚 lower-latitude tropical forests may face a greater risk of heat-related deaths and unsafe working conditions because of deforestation and climate warming, according to a led by The Nature Conservancy, the 91爆料 and Indonesia鈥檚 Mulawarman University.

In the study, researchers found that increased temperatures of 0.95 C (1.7 F) in the deforested areas of Berau Regency, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2018 were linked to roughly 118 additional deaths in 2018, and 20 additional minutes of daily conditions too hot for humans to work in safely. Future climate warming of 2 C (3.6 F) above 2018鈥檚 levels could increase deaths in Berau by 20% (approximately 282 additional annual deaths) and another five unsafe work hours per day 鈥� even without greater deforestation.

鈥淎mbient heat exposure and internal body heat from heavy physical work can increase the risk of heat-related illnesses, including heat exhaustion and heat stroke 鈥� which can be fatal 鈥� as well as acute kidney injury and traumatic injuries,鈥� said听 co-author , associate professor and assistant chair of environmental and occupational health sciences in the 91爆料 School of Public Health.

Researchers point out that the increase in heat-related deaths with a 2 C rise in global temperatures would be comparable to mortality from other long-term public health challenges in Asia, such as tobacco smoking. In addition, they write, 鈥渨orkers in Berau are already adapting to hotter temperatures due to deforestation, suggesting those engaged in outdoor work may already be approaching their adaptive capacity through behavioral adaptations.鈥�

The study in Lancet Planetary Health used publicly available and secondary data such as satellite monitoring of forest cover, temperatures, climate models, population densities, and the report published annually in The Lancet by the 91爆料 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Researchers focused on Berau as an area emblematic of tropical forest regions facing rapid deforestation.

鈥淎pproximately 800 million people live and work in the world鈥檚 tropical forest nations,鈥� Spector said. 鈥淭hese forests can act as natural air conditioners and sequester carbon, thus having implications for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. Information from this modeling study should be considered in discussions about trade-offs between economic welfare, human health, the natural environment and decisions about climate change adaptation and mitigation.鈥�

Other 91爆料 authors of the study are , graduate student, and , professor and Tamaki Endowed Chair, in the Department of Atmospheric Science; and , professor of global health and environmental and occupational health sciences in the School of Public Health. For complete list of authors and more about the study see The Nature Conservancy鈥檚 .

The study was supported by a pilot research grant from the 91爆料 Population Health Initiative.

91爆料 Global Month celebrates our University鈥檚 global impact and community.听During the month of November, we highlight the connections and relationships the 91爆料 has all over the world and the impact of our University鈥檚 global engagement.

Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Converge: Virtual Series

Ongoing

Without borders, registration fees or the challenges of travel, last year’s “Convirtual” created a historic gathering of Huskies from every corner of the globe. This year, we’re building on that momentum and, in a series first, bringing together five host communities for a 91爆料 Converge like no other. The Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore Huskies will each host events on leadership and the 91爆料 will host a final keynote address featuring 91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce.听

Upcoming events:

• Leadership at the Crossroads of Gender and Culture – Hong Kong, November 5
• The Evolution of Event Technology – Japan, November 12
• Mental Resilience in the Transition to Endemic – Singapore, November 19
• Leading the 91爆料 Through Change, December 10

Free |

Working, Together: “Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice

November 3, 6:00 – 7:30 PM听|

听Let’s Talk Pop Health, “Crowded Out: How GoFundMe Is Changing Health Care in the US” with Nora Kenworthy

November 3, 3:30 – 4:30 PM |

Crowdfunding for health care via sites like GoFundMe has become a ubiquitous part of many societies. As social safety nets falter and crises multiply, more and more Americans turn each year to help from what GoFundMe calls 鈥渢he giving layer of the internet.鈥� But what, exactly, do they find when they do so? Drawing on seven years of mixed-methods, collaborative research, Prof. Kenworthy will explore what we think we know, what we actually know, and what we need to know about crowdfunding as it increasingly shapes health equity, access to care, and social solidarities in the US.

Nora Kenworthy is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the 91爆料 Bothell. Her research explores the impacts and politics of global health and charitable initiatives in communities. She is the author of听Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho听(2017, Vanderbilt University Press). Her more recent research examines the use of crowdfunding for healthcare expenses in the US and abroad, and its implications for health equity, financing, and politics.

Free |

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging In America听

Hacking the Academy: Simpson Center Showcase

November 4, 1:00 – 2:00 PM听|

Afghanistan and Its Regional Relationships | A Round Table Discussion

Looking for more?

Check out 91爆料AA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.