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UW HPRC IN THE NEWS
Read about the UW Health Promotion Research Center in local, regional, and national publications.
2022
Delivering Falls Prevention Programs Remotely: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
National Council on Aging, August 2022
Buscan familias en primarias de Yakima para proyecto de prevención de COVID (Families sought in Yakima elementary schools for COVID prevention project)
El Sol de Yakima, June 2022
Creating Inclusive Depression Care for Older Asian Americans: What Community Organizations Can Do (featuring PEARLS)
National Council on Aging (NCOA) Blog, June 2022
Get In. We’re Going to Save the Mall. (featuring the Mall Walking Guide)
New York Times, June 2022
Testing a Safe & Confident Return to Classrooms for Latino Youth
UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences, May 2022
Aprenda mas sobre el estudio llamado ROSSEY (Learn more about the study called ROSSEY)
KUNW TV, May 2022
2021
Familias de Yakima participarán en estudio para un regreso a clases seguro
El Sol de Yakima, September 2021
YMCA: Preventing and controlling chronic disease locally – part 2 (featuring Enhance®Fitness)
Marion Star (Marion, Ohio), May 2021
2020
Santa baskets, programs helping local seniors
Henry County Local, December 2020
Support Seniors on National Depression Screening Day
Patch.com, October 2020
To Address Health Inequities, Black Folks Need the Right to Move without Harm
The Urbanist, June 2020
Reaching out to isolated older adults is essential during coronavirus – here are 7 specific things you can do, just for starters
The Conversation, March 2020
National Cancer Research Collaboration Demonstrates Real-World Impact
Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), February 2020
Can Home Care Workers Help Older Adults Escape Late Life Depression And Anxiety?
Forbes, January 2020
2019
Pearl of a Program: Encouraging active, rewarding lives among older adults with depressive symptoms
UW Public Health Magazine, Fall 2019
These malls were made for walking: fitness and friendship before the stores open
Raleigh News & Observer, November 2019
New UW center receives NIH grant to improve the fight against cancer
UW News (Featured in UW Today newsletter), October 2019
Staying healthy, active as older adults
Missoulian, October 2019
CDC continues funding UW HPRC as a National Prevention Research Center
UW School of Public Health (Featured in UW Today newsletter), September 2019
Everyday Improvements You Can Make Right Now to Boost Your Brain Health and Extend Your ‘Mindspan’
Parade, July 2019
2018
‘Small-town atmosphere’: At Towson Town Center, before stores open, walkers rule
Baltimore Sun, September 2018
HBRN Studies Exercise Outcome Measures
Alzheimer’s Association Public Health News, February 2018
AARP Foundation Grantee Profiles: PEARLS
AARP Foundation, January 2018
2017
Public Health Experts Celebrate 30 Years of CDC’s Prevention Research Solutions for Communities with Health Disparities
American Journal of Preventative Medicine, February 2017
2016
Good News: Ceballos honored for public health research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, November 2016
HSR&D Announces Best Research Paper of the Year Award Recipients (Includes Steve Zeliadt from UW HPRC)
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, November 2016
UW HPRC Director Peggy Hannon Awarded James W. Mifflin Professorship
UW Department of Health Services*, September 2016
Feet First Case Study: Mall Walking
Walkable Washington, May 2016
Why health experts want some of you to spend time at the mall
Washington Post, April 2016
* The Department of Health Systems and Population Health was previously the Department of Health Services. This name change took place July 1, 2021.