Resilience on Seattle's Waterfront
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.
Career Development
Improving Your Narrativity
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.
Finding Your Message
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.
Using Accessible Language
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.
2024 EDGE Symposium packs the house
On June 6, the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment (EDGE) hosted its annual center symposium in Seattle. The theme for the event was “Enhancing Equitable University/ Community Partnerships.” Over 60 faculty, staff, trainees and community partners attended, representing several UW departments as well as the wider Seattle community.
EDGE Director honored by National Academy of Medicine
A current and former EDGE director are being recognized for their contributions to public health research and service to the field.
Current EDGE Director, Dr. Joel Kaufman, a leading expert on the health effects of air pollution, is elected to the National Academy of Medicine this month.
Kaufman is professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and epidemiology in SPH and professor of general internal medicine in the UW School of Medicine.
A model of scientific integrity
Lianne Sheppard fought recent efforts by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suppress the role of academic scientists advising the agency on environmental policy.
The University of Washington professor also battled back against attacks on her research into the link between cancer and glyphosate, a widely used herbicide.