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In just eight years, the ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ®Population Health Initiative has funded 227 innovative, interdisciplinary projects. With the Initiative now a third of the way into its 25-year vision, ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ®News checked in with three projects that recently received funding to scale their efforts. 

Starting in the earliest days of the 2020 outbreak, a team of researchers at the ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® conducted real-time surveys of King County residents, asking what measures people had taken to protect themselves, how their daily lives had been affected and what worried them most.  

When you get into the car of the app-based driver you just tapped up on your phone, you expect and hope the driver and the car are safe and capable of getting you where you need to go. Apps rate drivers, which you can see. But what if the driver is sick? What if the car has a mechanical problem? What if the driver has simply had a bad day? What you may not have realized is that the driver…

The new Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, led by Oregon State University and the ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ®, will study coastal hazards and community resilience. The National Science Foundation awarded $18.9 million for the hub over five years.

ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® researchers have launched the King County COVID-19 Community Study — or KC3S — to gather data through April 19 on how individuals and communities throughout King County are coping with the measures put in place to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

While travel bans are frequently used to stop the spread of an emerging infectious disease, a new ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® and Johns Hopkins University study of published research found that the effectiveness of travel bans is mostly unknown.