Partners

University

• University of Washington Population Health Initiative –  The UW’s Population Health Initiative is defined by three major pillars: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.  CPHN faculty members have been funded by the PHI for a number of projects on food insecurity and economic shock to households in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
• UW Health Promotion Research Center – CPHN faculty and staff collaborate on special interest projects through the Health Promotion Research Center including Translating Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools and the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN).
• UW Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) – SORCE is a multidisciplinary research center established by the UW Department of Surgery and the site of the new MediForAll food plan. 
• UW Urban Form Lab (UFL) – UFL research aims to affect policy and to support approaches to the design and planning of more livable environments. The UFL specializes in geospatial analyses of the built environment using multiple micro-scale data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Washington State University Elson S Floyd College of Medicine – Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology  – The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is a public medical school headquartered in Spokane, Washington. Founded in 2015, it is part of Washington State University, and is the second public medical school in the state of Washington

Government

Washington State Department of Health

• Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Program: CPHN has worked closely with HEAL in the Office of Community Wellness & Prevention on various projects.
• Maternal and Child Health Section: CPHN worked with the Maternal and Child Health Section to develop childcare health modules on nutrition and physical activity environments.
• Washington State WIC: CPHN partnered with Washington State WIC on a special project grant from USDA titled “Building Community Collaboration to Increase WIC Clients’ Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.” The Center also partnered with the state WIC program to implement and evaluate Healthy Habits, a statewide health promotion initiative to encourage family meals and increase physical activity.
• Watch Me Grow Washington – A CPHN member serves on the Professional Review Team for Watch Me Grow Washington (formerly known as Child Profile Health Promotion System), the Department of Health’s primary method for delivering important health and safety information by mail to Washington State families which focuses on keeping Washington’s kids as safe and healthy as possible.

Community

• Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute – Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute improves health, well being, and health equity for our members and all communities through collaborative research and evaluation.
• Schools Out Washington -CPHN staff and interns partnered with Schools Out Washington to create a screen time reduction curriculum and training for out-of-school care providers.
• Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation – Southern California – Research scientists at the KP Department of Research & Evaluation conduct research with real-world implications and translate findings into practice. They build scientific expertise in new research areas, including health-services and implementation science, which helps us understand how to provide better care for members and the communities they come from, so we can bridge the gap between research and practice.