The START Center Domestic Program is a multidisciplinary team which conducts research and provides analytic support in response to specific, immediate, and longer-term requests from public health clients.
Research and analysis is conducted by graduate research assistants, under guidance and mentorship provided by UW faculty who provide expertise in a variety of disciplines and subject matter areas. Teams of graduate research assistants and faculty work collaboratively to develop creative and rigorous approaches to inform projects with domestic public health significance.
2/4/2022
The START team conducted an updated literature review on the causes and implications of the decline in the number of small dollar donors, and how giving and volunteering are associated with social outcomes.
2/16/2024
The Early Learning Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned START to identify the leaders of early learning departments/programs across the U.S., especially for public school districts in large urban areas, or in areas predominantly servicing the target population of children who face the most significant barriers to opportunity, including Black & Latino children, and children from low-income communities.
10/15/2021
The START team documented how evidence from modeling and analytics was used to inform policy in Washington State’s COVID-19 response and identified lessons learned from this experience—which can inform research-policy partnerships, policy decisions, and formation of responsive systems to address public health emergencies in the future.