The Population Health Initiative has announced the award of four Tier 3 pilot grants to interdisciplinary teams of University of Washington population health researchers. The purpose of the Tier 3 pilot grant program is to create follow-on opportunities for impactful projects that have developed preliminary data or realized proof-of-concept and are seeking to scale their efforts and/or expand the scope of their work.
 
Larry Wissow, MD, MPH is co-PI on a project titled “Designing an optimal continuum of care network for youth mental health services in Washington State.” Their project will develop an integrative set of quantitative models to inform service planning with three aims. Aim 1 will map the current pediatric mental health service network in WA, aim 2 will develop a facility location model to determine optimal placement and expansion of services under resource constraints, and aim 3 involves building a discrete-event simulation model to evaluate system performance and assess the impact of expanding interventions such as telehealth, school-based programs, and integrated primary care.
 
“We are delighted to be able to support each of these interdisciplinary project teams as they work to scale the impact of their research,” said Ali H. Mokdad, the UW’s chief strategy officer for population health and professor of health metrics sciences. Learn more