CIP publicizes appointments for six new college members

The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has named six new college members, Zack Almquist (Department of Sociology), Emily M. Godfrey (Department of Family Medicine), Heather D. Hill (Evans School of Public Policy & Governance), Jisoo Kim (Department of Communication), Belén Saldías (Information School) and Neil Sehgal (School of Public Health), bolstering the CIP’s multidisciplinary analysis and experience.

Appointed for two-year phrases with eligibility to resume their affiliations, CIP affiliated college members can have the chance to have interaction with the middle’s full vary of analysis and actions, together with pursuing collaborative analysis proposals and initiatives, taking part within the CIP’s Invited Speaker Series, using the middle’s analysis infrastructure, and making use of for the CIP Innovation Fund.

Zack Almquist 

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Dr. Almquist’s analysis facilities on the event and utility of mathematical, computational and statistical methodology to higher perceive the issues and theories of social networks evaluation, demography, training, homelessness and environmental motion and governance. Almquist’s present analysis program is targeted on understanding, modeling, and predicting the results that area and time have on human interplay and social processes. His analysis has been printed in  quite a few peer-reviewed journals within the social sciences, statistics and pc science fields. 

Emily M. Godfrey

Professor
Department of Family Medicine

Dr. Godfrey is a core college member of the University of Washington Family Medicine Research Section, is affiliated with the UW Osher Center for Integrative Health and is board-certified in each household medication and life-style medication. Dr. Godfrey’s method in her major care follow is to make use of evidence-based life-style interventions to assist sufferers with well being promotion and addressing well being issues. The life-style medication method contains speaking with sufferers about their entire lives together with weight-reduction plan, train, sleep, and stressors, as a result of all of those have an effect on how properly an individual can obtain their well being targets, efficiently forestall power illnesses, or cut back the necessity for present power illness medicines. 

Heather D. Hill 

Professor
Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Dr. Hill’s analysis examines how public and office insurance policies affect household financial circumstances and youngster wellbeing in low-income households. She has studied welfare-to-work applications, the Earned Income Tax Credit, paid household go away, and minimal wages.  In 2026, she is this system coordinator for the Research Impact Advocates program via the UW Office of Research, which is coaching a cohort of UW researchers taken with partaking the general public about analysis proof.

Jisoo Kim

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication

Dr. Kim’s analysis facilities on how communication environments form democracy, with specific consideration to multimedia dynamics and mechanisms of media/message results. Her latest work examines how the broader communication ecology influences public perceptions of polarization and politicization — and the way these perceptions, in flip, have an effect on folks’s willingness to share opinions, have interaction in dialog, navigate relationships with others, or take political motion. Her scholarship has appeared in Information, Communication & Society, Political Communication, and Political Analysis, amongst different journals.

Belén Saldías

Assistant Teaching Professor
Information School

Dr. Saldías’ analysis focuses on human-centered machine studying, with an emphasis on human-AI collaboration, person company, and governance. She earned her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the place she labored with the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Center for Constructive Communication and examined how language fashions can assist decentralized governance and assist bridge communities with differing values. She has held analysis and trade roles at Harvard University, Google Research, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and has collaborated with AI-focused firms and startups. She teaches Generative AI Ethics and Data Justice alongside databases, knowledge modeling, and knowledge visualization.

Neil Sehgal

Austin Ross Endowed Chair of Health Administration
School of Public Health

Dr. Sehgal is an affiliate professor of well being programs and inhabitants well being and the Austin Ross Endowed Chair of Health Administration graduate applications on the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. He has a background in each well being providers and scientific analysis, scientific validation, biomedical and analysis ethics, well being administration and coverage and organizational habits, with intensive analysis expertise at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and the National Institutes of Health. His analysis pursuits embody the influence of partisanship and race on COVID-19 incidence and mortality, sociodemographic correlates to healthcare outcomes, gender and race primarily based disparities in wage and promotion of healthcare staff, the usage of giant datasets to review affected person security and the standard of well being care supply, validating rising well being applied sciences and understanding how innovation is translated into scientific follow.