Ask Jamie Donatuto where she grew up and she’ll say all over—she moved about 15 times before graduating high school—but ask her where she spent her formative years, and she’ll say with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington’s Skagit Valley.
This interactive story map features portraits and stories of some of the people involved in or affected by our Seattle Assessment of Public Health Emergency Response (SASPER) project.
This 16-minute training defines narrativity, explains why to use it, and provides a tool for introducing or improving it in your own work. The training ends with an opportunity to put the tool to use.
This 30-minute video covers six features of memorable messages and introduces an exercise to help you organize your communication around a single main idea to let people know why it's important and what they should do about it.
This 25-minute training video introduces one fundamental strategy and a readily available tool to increase the impact of your communications with people both within and outside your field.
This flier was created to inform people about ways to minimize health risks associated with exposure to degreasers. Degreasers are commonly used in auto shops and other settings to remove grease and grime from engine compartments, wheels, and the exterior surfaces of vehicles. Traditional degresasers contain high levels of volatile organic chemicals, exposure to which is associated with both short-term and long-term health effects such as skin irritation and cancer. New safer cleaning products and technologies can provide safer alternatives.
Auto shops often use parts cleaners—baths of solvents that are used to dissolve grease and grime from, for example, the components of a carburetor. “Even if the baths are closed, they still emit a lot of vapors and produce hazardous waste” said Diana Ceballos, an assistant professor in the University of Washington (UW) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) and expert on assessing exposures to chemicals such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a common component of commercial degreasers.
The new University of Washington (UW) Northwest Center for Evidence-Based Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response launched this week with $978,000 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support its first year.
In 2021, Ashleigh Theberge, a chemistry professor at the University of Washington (UW), applied for a pilot grant from the Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment (EDGE) to test a field application of a new remote blood sampling system. Theberge and her team were interested in how people respond to wildfire smoke exposure. Specifically, they wanted to measure levels of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in white blood cells before, during, and after wildfire smoke events.
Maja Jeranko, a post-doctoral scholar with the National Science Foundation’s Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub (Cascadia CoPes Hub) and the University of Washington (UW) Center for Disaster Resilient Communities, grew up in Slovenia, but it was in Ecuador where she got the training and experience that qualify her to help lead the new University of Washington (UW) Population Health Initiative-funded project titled “Living with Water: Co-
