PEARLS Equity


April 23, 2024

PEARLS spotlighted in Harvard’s Public Health in Action series 

Kenzie Lock

PEARLS participant and PEARLS coach talk.

The UW HPRC PEARLS (Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives) intervention was highlighted in the “Public Health in Action: Mental Health Innovations” series curated by the Harvard’s Public Health Magazine and Harvard Chan Studio.


December 6, 2023

Sherry Wu (MPH ’23) Awarded APHA’s Masters Student Research Award in Aging and Public Health

Kenzie Lock

Sherry Wu

Sherry Wu, Research Coordinator and UW alum, has been awarded the 2023 Masters Student Research Award in Aging and Public Health. Wu says, “Our society’s emphasis on productivity categorizes older adults as less desirable. But the experiences and wisdom of older adults are invaluable, and they have a right to fulfilling and healthy lives.”


February 8, 2021

Making Progress, Together

Rachel Seymour

2021 calendar

Welcome to 2021. It is a new year with new possibilities. And was there ever a year where we are all so ready for the potential progress it holds? Take a look back at 2020 with us before we look ahead to what 2021 has to offer at the UW Health Promotion Research Center.


June 11, 2020

PEARLS Connect & PEARLS Equity Updates

Rachel Seymour

PEARLS team member Lesley Steinman at the IDIC

The UW Health Promotion Research Center (UW HPRC) is excited to share the work its researchers have done with two PEARLS studies — PEARLS Connect and PEARLS Equity.


February 26, 2020

Reflecting on Our Success & Looking Forward

Rachel Seymour

2020 in the sky at sunrise

The UW Health Promotion Research Center (UW HPRC) takes a look at its successes from the last five-year funding cycle and looks ahead at what to expect next.


December 21, 2019

PEARLS Featured in School of Public Health Magazine

Rachel Seymour

Illustration showing people living, working, and playing.

The Health Promotion Research Center’s program known as PEARLS has been featured in a UW School of Public Health’s new magazine.


September 16, 2019

CDC Continues Funding HPRC as a Prevention Research Center

Rachel Seymour

Peggy Hannon, Mark Snowden, and Lesley Steinman

The University of Washington’s Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) has once again been awarded funding as part of a select group of national prevention research centers.