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  • Katie Osterhage Receives UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Collaborative Impact Staff Award

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    Congratulations to Katie Osterhage, UW ALACRITY Center Manager, who has received the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Collaborative Impact Staff Award. The award recognizes her valuable efforts toward supporting the department’s mission and upholding its core values of collaboration, continuous learning and mentorship, and integrity and accountability. As Center Manager, Katie holds together…

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  • UWAC investigator Jenna van Draanen & READU team receive 2026 Academy Health Mosaic Award

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    UWAC investigator Jenna van Draanen and her team at the University of Washington have received the 2026 Mosaic Award from Academy Health, recognizing organizations that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in health services and policy research. Van Draanen leads Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use (READU), an interdisciplinary team that spans UW’s schools of…

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  • Sharing UWAC Research at Academy Health 2026

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    Alacrity

    UW ALACRITY Researchers recently shared our work at AcademyHealth‘s Annual Research meeting in Seattle. Break It to Fix It: Redesigning Youth Interventions and Implementation In School Vaughan Collins, Isabell Griffith Fillipo, Ryan Allred, Kat Bruzios, and Tricia Aung Panel on methodological approaches used during the Discover phase of the Discover, Design/Build, Test (DDBT) framework that…

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  • Investigator Spotlight: Gary Hsieh on Closing the Research–Practice Gap

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    Alacrity

    UWAC investigator and HCDE Professor Gary Hsieh and his Prosocial Computing Group are developing tools that help practitioners discover and apply research insights in their everyday work. Rather than leaving findings locked in academic papers, the group translates research into formats practitioners already use — design cards, Figma plug-ins, policy briefs, and short-form videos. Recent projects include Paper2Card,…

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  • UW ALACRITY Center Featured in HCDE Impact Report

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    Alacrity

    The UW ALACRITY Center is featured in HCDE’s impact report, highlighting how our interdisciplinary team is working to make high-quality mental healthcare more widely available to all Americans. The piece covers several ALACRITY-supported projects led by HCDE researchers — including a digital tool helping adolescents with depression stay engaged in therapy, the SCOPE platform for…

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  • R03 Request for Proposal (Summer 2025 Cycle)

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    Alacrity

    The UW ALACRITY Center is an incubator for new research and bold thinking in mental health. If you’re an academic who has a big idea, and you’d like to be considered for funding and support from our team, please fill out and submit a Request for Proposal (RFP). IMPORTANT DATES Indication of Interest Deadline: May…

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  • R03 Request for Proposal (Summer 2024 Cycle)

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    Alacrity

    The UW ALACRITY Center is an incubator for new research and bold thinking in mental health. If you’re an academic who has a big idea, and you’d like to be considered for funding and support from our team, please fill out and submit a Request for Proposal (RFP). IMPORTANT DATES Indication of Interest Deadline: May…

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  • We Are Excited to Announce a Successful Renewal of the ALACRITY Center

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    Alacrity

    We’re excited to announce that our renewal application was successful and we have received funding from NIH to continue our work for the next 5 years! Together, we will work with local practitioners and stakeholders to address critical problems in implementing evidence-based psychosocial clinical interventions in non-specialty service settings (i.e., primary care clinics and schools) that are…

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  • DESIGNING AN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM (ITS): A tool to support the training of mental health providers in core psychotherapy competencies

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    Alacrity

    Each year, millions of Americans with mental illness struggle to find care. Nearly half of the 60 million adults and children living with mental health conditions in the United States go without any treatment. This short presentation, initially given at the 2021 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care by Emily Friedman,…

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