Naisha Inaugural Health and Wellness Event  

June 4^th 2022

10-5pm in Idylwood Park, Redmond, WA

Nashi Immigrants Health Board is a registered non-profit organization founded by people in the community in partnership with WA DOH and UWSON

Mission: We partner with Ukrainian and Russian speaking communities in WA state to meet the broad range of health and social needs of our people and advocate through community engagement, empowerment and connection to resources.

Vision: We seek to understand, support and empower our community and provide for a healthy future for “Nashi” (our community) through a lens of health equity and social justice.

Come out and support our health and wellness event for our Ukrainian and Russian speaking communities in WA state, be our guest, be a vendor or volunteer 

Contact Tamara Cyhan Cunitz for questions and details cyhant@uw.edu 

Volunteers Needed: 

 

1. Distributing Health Education materials for chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension)
2. Distributing materials about Mental and Behavioral health education for (depression, anxiety, trauma).
3. Distributing resources about dental care
4. General booth support- set up/take down
5. Promoting mindfulness, non-pharmacological interventions for stress/anxiety
6. Russian and/or Ukrainian speaking volunteers to translate and support attendees

 

Agencies represented at the health fair will be: 

*If you are interested in hosting a table, please reach out to cyhant@uw.edu

1. Seattle King County Public Health
2. Health Point Community Clinics
3. Dept of Health Care-a-van – COVID-19 immunizations
4. Neighborhood House- health and social service agency
5. Immigration and Refugee information booth
6. Housing Support
7. University of Washington School of Nursing

 

Activities: 

1. Raffle drawing- free tickets for attendees
2. Scavenger Hunt for kids
3. Volleyball instruction
4. Vaccination van
5. Tea and socializing table
6. Yoga/mindfulness
7. Food Truck
8. Music

The Tri-Campus Job & Internship Fair will take place virtually via Handshake and will give all UW Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma students and alumni an exciting opportunity to network with dozens of employer representatives (via video/chat 1:1 and group sessions).

All registered employers are actively recruiting UW students and alumni for full-time, part-time, internship and seasonal opportunities.

We have over 55 employers currently registered with more signing up every day, and students can preview that list of employers here. All majors are welcome to register and participate.

Student and Alumni registration opens next Thursday, June 2^nd.  Sessions are first come, first serve, and employer schedules change daily. Student/alumni registrants are strongly encouraged to revisit the schedule frequently.

The Career & Internship Center is offering a Virtual Career Fair 101 workshop on June 2nd also.

• Register here for the Virtual Career Fair 101 workshop to optimize your career fair experience.

Next steps: 

1. June 2^nd: Students and alumni invited to attend the Virtual 2022 Summer Job & Internship fair next week on 6/2,
2. June 2^nd – June 23:

1. • Students and alumni register for the fair
   • Students and alumni will sign up for 1:1 and group sessions.
   • Check the schedule often as employers add and update offerings up-to the day of the fair.

Questions? Email : cicevents@uw.edu

Issue No. 121                                                                                May 24, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Congratulations to Kevin Haggerty!
Congratulations to Kevin Haggerty, who has been honored as a Fellow of the Society for Prevention Research. This recognition is reserved for a select few who have made significant contributions to the field of prevention science. If you would like to honor Kevin at this year’s award ceremony, it will be held on June 2 from 5:45-6:30 at the annual SPR conference in Seattle. Congratulations, Kevin!

Grant Writer’s Boot Camp
The ALACRITY Center and the IMPACT Center at UW are offering a free boot camp to provide guidance and instruction to faculty submitting grant proposals to NIH in how to submit successful proposals focused on behavioral interventions and implementation strategies. Sessions are as follows:
May 27, 9:00-10:30am: Introduction to the NIH review process
June 2, 3:30-5:00pm: Specific Aims
June 7, 10:00-11:30am: Theory and Mechanisms
June 15, 2-3:30pm: Methods and Analysis
June 22, 12:00-01:30pm: Forms G/biosketch pointers
June 27, 3:30-5:00pm: Mock Review
July 21, 2:00-3:30pm: Responding to Reviewers
Click here to register (space is limited). Please direct any questions to katieost@uw.edu

NIH Annual Snapshots
NIH recently published their annual metrics showing the cumulative investigator rate (awardees vs. applicants across mechanisms) and success rates. These, along with the NIH Data Book, can help researchers track summary statistics on grants and contracts and likelihood of success for applications.

Contact the Editor
The mission of the OFFER newsletter is to inform members of our social work community about a broad range of research-related events and opportunities with the goals of both encouraging and informing social work research activities. To assist us in providing this information, contact Tasha Murphy by sending an email to tbmurphy@uw.edu (please put “OFFER eNews” in the subject line} with information on your publications or grants awarded in the last month, research funding opportunities, and upcoming research events. Thank you!

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For more information and to apply: Clinical Manager 05.06.2022

Sign up now for Introduction to Advocacy for the Health Professions – UCONJ 646!

• Learn from advocacy and topic specific experts about fundamental elements of health advocacy.
• Develop hands-on skills for moving beyond witnessing health disparities to upstream action rooted in community-centered advocacy.
• See flyer for details (attached)

Course details:

• Fall quarter 2022
• One Credit, CR/NC
• Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm
• Online only

Contact Rachel Lazzar, rlazzar@uw.edu for an add code or with questions!

UWSOM is excited to announce a program called Mobile Health Outreach (MHO), an interprofessional service-learning project that will bring together volunteers from various health sciences programs at the UW to provide free medical and social services to underserved communities, with the support and collaboration of Harborview Medical Center (affiliated with the University of Washington and King County). In its pilot phase, the MHO program will partner with the Low-Income Housing Institute to provide mobile-van based services to uninsured/underinsured community members living in tiny house villages in the Seattle area.

Interprofessional service-learning and meaningful student leadership are at the heart of the MHO project. We are looking for 2-3 health sciences students to join our MHO steering committee as we proceed with planning for this project, with the goal of launching our outreach work by fall 2022. We hope to find student leaders whose experience, training and expertise will complement and diversify our team. Applications are due no later than June 10;  – LINK TO APPLICATION

Please note, we are looking for a 6 to 12-month commitment in order to successfully plan and launch the MHO project. Because previously scheduled meetings are a cornerstone of this planning work, we ask students to apply for this role only if they are generally available to meet from 12-1 pm on Fridays. We anticipate this volunteer role to require 2-4 hours / week on average.

Roles and responsibilities: 

1. Serve as full members of the MHO steering committee
2. Participate in MHO steering committee meetings, generally 12-1pm on Fridays
3. In collaboration with other members of the steering committee, develop and launch multiple aspects of the MHO pilot, including,
   • Community partnership development
   • Listening sessions/ understanding community members’ circumstances and needs
   • Establishing/implementing standards for interprofessional education, with the support of CHSIE
   • Developing student leadership and volunteer structure and scheduling
   • Preceptor recruitment and scheduling
4. Student steering committee members may choose to continue involvement (including, for example, leadership of week-to-week operations of the clinic) once the MHO project is well-established; however, this is not a requirement. The main role of the steering committee student leads will be to help develop and launch the pilot.
5. Maintain the highest standards of professionalism, respect, and communication with other team members, volunteers, community partners and clients.

Qualifications: 

1. UW health sciences student who will be enrolled for the period of July-December 2022, ideally beyond
2. Passion for service and commitment to addressing health and social disparities
3. Interest/ experience in interprofessional education and collaboration
4. Demonstrated excellence in teamwork and communication skills
5. Volunteer experience, ideally in an outreach or community setting

We are so excited to be at this stage of planning for the MHO project and are eager to bring student leaders on board! We believe this is a unique opportunity to help plan and implement an interprofessional outreach project that will provide and connect vulnerable people in our community to needed health and social services.

Issue No. 120                                                                                May 17, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Congratulations to SSW Recipients of the Population Health Initiative Tier 1 Pilot Grants
Three SSW faculty have received funding from the UW Population Health Initiative pilot grants program. Tess Abrahamson-Richards and Jennifer Romich‘s project, “Understanding the Impacts of Washington Paid Family Leave Policy on American Indian and Alaska Native Birthing Parents and Newborns”, will collect quantitative data to conduct a future study examining birth outcomes among first time AIAN birthing parents. Abril Harris is co-investigator on “Residential Segregation and Pediatric Injury and Violence in Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma”, that will evaluate the association between residential segregation and the prevalence and severity of pediatric injury and violence in the three largest cities in WA. Congratulations to all the awardees!

Congratulations to Margaret Kuklinski!
The NIH HEAL Prevention Initiative has started a “Women in Prevention” series. Margaret Kuklinski was recently spotlighted in the HEAL Prevention Initiative newsletter, Progress in Opioid Misuse Prevention Research. Margaret is the co-chair of the HEAL Prevention Cooperative Economics Workgroup which includes HPC investigators who specialize in health economics and assess the cost-effectiveness of different types of substance use prevention interventions in adolescent and young adult populations. Congratulations, Margaret!

NIH Updated RPPR Instruction Guide
NIH has published an updated instructional guide for RPPRs (Research Performance Progress Reports). The new guide reflects changes associated with Other Support and Biosketch format pages, human subjects, trainee diversity report, and NRSA childcare costs reporting.

Grant Writer’s Boot Camp
The ALACRITY Center and the IMPACT Center at UW are offering a free boot camp to provide guidance and instruction to faculty submitting grant proposals to NIH in how to submit successful proposals focused on behavioral interventions and implementation strategies. Sessions are as follows:
May 27, 9:00-10:30am: Introduction to the NIH review process
June 2, 3:30-5:00pm: Specific Aims
June 7, 10:00-11:30am: Theory and Mechanisms
June 15, 2-3:30pm: Methods and Analysis
June 22, 12:00-01:30pm: Forms G/biosketch pointers
June 27, 3:30-5:00pm: Mock Review
July 21, 2:00-3:30pm: Responding to Reviewers
Click here to register (space is limited). Please direct any questions to katieost@uw.edu

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University of Washington Alumni Association Multicultural Alumni Partnership 2022 Scholarship Application

The University of Washington Alumni Association (UWAA) Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) awards scholarships to deserving University of Washington students who need financial assistance to assist with their progress toward a degree at the UW. Funding for these scholarships comes from contribution from UW alumni and friends.

One of MAP’s missions is to promote the UW and the UWAA. It supports the recruitment of diverse students, faculty and staff and encourages appropriate mentoring activities.

Qualifications for MAP Scholarships:

• Continuing UW student in good standing (@ UW-Seattle, UW-Bothell or UW-Tacoma)
• Full-time student at the University of Washington, undergraduate or graduate/professional
• Minimum one quarter at the UW
• Financial aid need as determined by the UW Office of Student Financial Aid
• Applicants do not have to be a US Citizen or resident. International students and undocumented students are welcome to apply

Below is the link for the UW MAP Scholarship.  Please complete the application once you have obtained all the required documentation: https://depts.washington.edu/alumni/applications/scholarship/

• Copy of UW transcript (unofficial transcript acceptable)
• In 250 words per question, please answer the following three questions in a personal narrative. In answering these questions, we encourage you to draw upon your positionality, passions, and personal history to discuss how you are uniquely situated to pursue impactful scholarship – research, teaching, and service.
  • Explain why you need this scholarship and your financial need.
  • How have you been impacted by the presence or lack of privilege?
  • How have you used your privilege to support others?

As a reference for what is privilege and areas to consider, here is a diagram to help.  You do not need to use this as a reference to answer the questions above.

We cannot accept any additional materials. We will not accept phone calls regarding application status. Recipients will be contacted by telephone. Non-recipients will not be notified; if you have not been contacted within five weeks of the application deadline, you were not selected. However, the Office of Student Financial Aid will retain your application in case other scholarship funds become available. All information is confidential.

The Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) strives to maintain a close relationship with its scholarship recipients. Support of a diverse student body is at the heart of MAP’s mission. Students are our future alumni; thus, MAP aims to support students and encourages your involvement in our programs.

Questions Please Contact: Courtney Acitelli acitelli@uwimpact.org
Applications must be completed and submitted by Friday, June 3, 2022.

REGISTER NOW! https://cvent.me/lP3VMN

Summer RA opportunity with Dr. June Spector in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center.

 

For more information and to apply: Summer RA Job Posting DEOHS

WHEN	Thursday, May 19, 2022, 1 – 2 p.m.
WHERE	Online

Learn more about how you can fund your graduate education. Join the Graduate Funding Information Service for an overview of funding types, search tools, and search strategies.

RSVP here: https://lib.washington.edu/about/news/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D159472036&mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGELiKGO-aW3_xzFhKPDUes-fla87QI6Lj1ZMtpxCDsHOHpy2SIPeuBv6gHpU-Q2O4wIAyueYcl7_mNsL0bS1JANm_QW4koykn8jz8ZgDsC

Social Work Students International Meetup

SOCIAL WORK – THE REVOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL ROLES

May 26, 2022

6.00 pm (EEST, UTC/GMT +3)

Online, Broadcasted from Lviv, Ukraine

Ukrainian Catholic University

Study Program in Social Work

Social Work Students International Meetup (SWSIM) is an attempt to get acquainted with current developments in scientific and practical social work, research, and projects implemented by students, a new generation of social work professionals.

SWSIM has been implemented as Students Coworking in 2018, 2019 at the state level in Lviv, Ukraine at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). In 2021 we decided to give it a try and organized an international e-conference, where more than 50 participants from 10 countries of 3 continents shared experiences and discovered new ideas. Let’s see if we can exceed it this year.

Concept of the event:

Our main goal is to create a communication platform where students from all around the world can share their hands-on experience as well as scientific papers. Everything that is related to social work is welcomed in our midst.

Main objectives of SWSIM 2022:

• to maintain the international students` discussion in an area of social work and  to develop bonds among students from around the world;
• to give students an opportunity to exchange their researches’, projects’, and practice results;
• to develop a decision making based on values, professional norms, and research results;
• to show potential and enhance the perspectives of social work;
• to empower tomorrow’s leaders of the social sphere.

Participants:

Undergraduate, Graduate, Postgraduate Students of Social Work, related educational programs all over the World (russian and belarussian students are not welcome because of the war of their countries against Ukraine).

Language: English

Our team invites and encourages Social Work students to participate in Meetup on May 26, 2022

Feel free to choose among various ways of participation:

1. present your scientific research papers;
2. present your project’s results or methodological solutions in social work;
3. present your practical or volunteering experience;
4. listener and you will be engaged in discussions.

If you’ve decided to be a participant (you choose 1st, 2nd, or 3rd option), we kindly ask you to film a video (up to 3 minutes) OR to prepare a 1-page document with a short description (text or/and illustration) of your project.

You can add a link to your video or document while filling out the form.

Friendly reminder: 

The event is free of charge.

You will receive a certificate in your e-mail after the participation.

Form for registration

 

Contacts

swsim2022@gmail.com

Issue No. 118                                                                                May 3, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Upcoming National Academy of Sciences Workshop
Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity
May 16, 2022, 7:00am-1:00pm
May 17, 2022, 6:00am-12:00pm
This workshop is designed to identify and discuss the sources and mechanisms through which structural racism operates. Invited experts will not only provide insights into known sources of structural racism and models of health equity, but also go beyond these to discuss novel sources and approaches. The workshop will help identify key research and data needs and priorities for future work on structural racism and health inequity. SSW Professor Michelle Johnson-Jennings will be a featured speaker at the workshop. Registration required.

Grant Writer’s Boot Camp
The ALACRITY Center and the IMPACT Center at UW are offering a free boot camp to provide guidance and instruction to faculty submitting grant proposals to NIH in how to submit successful proposals focused on behavioral interventions and implementation strategies. Sessions are as follows:
May 27, 9:00-10:30am: Introduction to the NIH review process
June 2, 3:30-5:00pm: Specific Aims
June 7, 10:00-11:30am: Theory and Mechanisms
June 15, 2-3:30pm: Methods and Analysis
June 22, 12:00-01:30pm: Forms G/biosketch pointers
June 27, 3:30-5:00pm: Mock Review
July 21, 2:00-3:30pm: Responding to Reviewers
Click here to register (space is limited). Please direct any questions to katieost@uw.edu

Politically Sensitive Research Presentation Notes
Our thanks to speakers Karina Walters, Angelique Day, Denise Walker, and Mike Spencer for hosting OFFER’s Research Conversations Presentation on Politically Sensitive Research on April 13. If you were unable to attend this presentation and would like a summary of the discussion, please email Tasha Murphy (tbmurphy@uw.edu).

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Please join us for the annual UWNURF/HQSC Health Equity Conference.

Speakers include:

• Jonathan Kanter, PhD-Center for the Science of Social Connection  https://depts.washington.edu/uwcssc/content/jonathan-w-kanter-phd
• Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS-Gastroenterology  https://gastro.uw.edu/faculty/rachel-b-issaka-md-mas
• Jason Deen, MD-Cardiology https://www.seattlechildrens.org/directory/jason-f-deen/

 

This is an opportunity to learn about their health equity research but also to discuss getting involved in health equity research.

Date:  Thursday May 12

Time:  5:00-7:00 PM PST

Location:  zoom (will be provided once registered)

Registration link:  https://forms.office.com/r/SHB6cNf6L2

For more information and to apply, you can view the job posting.

Applicants need to have their degree in hand by June 30th, 2022, priority application consideration is May 18th, 2022, and with the anticipated hiring date of July 1st, 2022.

The UW Statistical Consulting Service is now available for Spring quarter. Appointments will be held online via Zoom.

Faculty and graduate students in the Consulting Program of the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics offer free statistical advice to the UW community through scheduled 50-minute consulting appointments during the academic year when classes are in session. They provide assistance with:

 

• the design of studies and experiments, including the preparation of grant proposals
• data visualization and presentation

• choice and application of statistical methods
• development of specialized statistical methods in some cases

 

The consultants have experience primarily with the R statistical analysis system, but they work with clients using whatever statistical package is most convenient for them. (Note: Statistical consulting is for study design and data analysis advice, not software tutorials.) Clients should come to consulting appointments prepared to provide background information, and to discuss the scientific aims of their research, study design, and approach.

For more information about the Service and to schedule an appointment, click on the following link:  UW STATISTICAL CONSULTING SERVICE

About the Consulting Program:  This program is a UW course for graduate students in the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics. Through this course, students learn how to apply their statistical skills to a variety of real-world problems. Most appointments will have three to four consultants in attendance: two to three student trainees and one faculty advisor. The program is organized around the academic calendar and the participating student consultants change every quarter. Because this is a training program, each consulting appointment has multiple goals. In addition to helping clients, student consultants are developing their consulting skills. Many problems brought to the consulting program require the consultants to research and discuss possible solutions with program colleagues following an appointment to determine the most appropriate statistical methods or guidance. In these cases, follow-up appointments are typically scheduled. While resources are limited, some assistance with actual data analyses can be provided on a case-by-case basis, depending on consultant availability, client needs, the size of the problem, and data analysis tasks.

The Research Commons is again offering our asynchronous citation tools course aimed at graduate students at the end of next month (thank you to LibID for all the help you provided in creating this course). Students who participate will work through the course over a week and interact as a cohort in Slack, with the option to participate in synchronous sessions on Zoom if they’d like.

If so, join us for the Citation Management Tools Workshop! This workshop hosted by the UW Libraries is an opportunity to learn about citation management software and how to use it to develop a more efficient research workflow. We explore different tools that are supported by the Libraries and walk through how to install and use them. This is an asynchronous Canvas course that can be done at your own pace, with options for peer-to-peer interaction and support from Libraries staff during the week of 5/16-5/20. Optional synchronous sessions over Zoom will also be offered to augment the course, but are not required.

Graduate students can get more information and sign up here:

https://www.lib.washington.edu/commons/events/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D159575250