We are pleased to announce departmental funding for another Population Health pilot project presented at the Research Retreat in October, 2017. Ann Vander Stoep, PhD, and colleagues are working to promote parenting practices that support child emotional health, thereby reducing the risk for behavioral, learning and mental health problems that impede educational attainment and economic well-being. They will pursue this goal with a “community mobilization” process that calls community members to action to achieve a shared goal – success in school leading to engagement in economically viable occupations. This project will build on prior collaboration between UW and the St. John of God Mental Health Training Center in northern Malawi that evaluated the emotional health needs of school children. Malawi is one of the least-developed countries in the world and is undergoing significant cultural transformation. Access to universal primary education was introduced in 1994 and became compulsory in 2012. Parents in northern Malawi are experiencing disruption in their traditional subsistence farming culture do to extended drought and are parenting Malawi’s first generation of school-going children.