Department news | March 31, 2018
The National Science Foundation has awarded $5.3 million in Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants to help researchers better understand why disasters happen, how we can best respond to them, and how to rebuild after they hit. A team of researchers at the UW, including Kari Stephens, PhD, and colleagues at collaborating institutions received one of these […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
We had another strong showing in the UW Population Health Initiative Research Grants, with three of the eight newly funded proposals including psychiatry and behavioral sciences faculty. The $50,000 pilot research grants encourages new interdisciplinary collaborations among investigators for projects that address critical components of the grand challenges the UW seeks to address in population […]
Department news | February 28, 2018
Rural communities face the twin burden of higher need and lower resources. Rural residents are more likely to be poor, uninsured, unemployed, have lower education, experience more chronic health conditions, engage in high-risk health behaviors, and live shorter lives than their urban counterparts. And yet, many of the rural counties in the US have extremely […]
Department news | February 28, 2018
Both Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, and Molly Adrian, PhD, recently received funding from the Once Upon a Time Foundation to support their research. The Once Upon a Time Foundation is based in Fort Worth, Texas, and supports a wide range of organizations that provide arts and humanities, community affairs, health and medicine, human services and education benefits to […]
Department news | January 31, 2018
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. […]
Department news | January 31, 2018
A new partnership between Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS) Opioid Treatment Program and UW is exploring how technology can support and enhance evidence-based counseling for opioid abuse.
Department news | January 31, 2018
Our Service Members are at a historically high risk for suicide, with suicide deaths outnumbering combat deaths in recent years and the risk of dying by suicide greater among active duty military men than that of the general population. Identifying and intervening with suicidal Service Members is essential to preventing suicide, but many do not […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
Seema Clifasefi, PhD, and Raphe Bernier, PhD, both received funding for a 2018 Academic/Community Partnership Award given by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies program. Academic/Community Partnership Award given by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies program. The purpose of the award is to […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has funded the Native Center for Alcohol Research and Education (NCARE) devoted to working with Native communities across the United States to co-create and evaluate interventions that address alcohol problems. This Center will be led by Dedra Buchwald, MD, founding Director of Washington State University’s Partnerships for […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
Over one hundred faculty and trainees attended the 2nd Annual Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Retreat this month at the Intellectual House on upper campus. The theme of the retreat was research training and mentorship and included engaging discussions of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges in those areas. Attendees also participated in a poster […]
