
About Restart Partners
Restart Partners is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to providing policy and technical assistance to Washington state and other locations to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate is impacts on citizens, communities, and economies.
Mission & Vision
Restart’s mission is saving lives and livelihoods through science, data and policy that empowers communities with evidence-based tools to protect the most vulnerable, increase public trust and enable all sectors of the economy to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
Restart Partners began with an effort to assist Washington state leaders in planning for and procuring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We developed a free open-source data-driven model to help state and local leadership make important demand and purchasing decisions for PPE and other supplies. This work proved to be of great value to decision-makers early in the pandemic and our help was extended to other government agencies and communities across the country.
It became clear to us early on that, while PPE procurement and distribution were critical, PPE and other mitigation strategies would not be effective unless they were broadly adopted. We shifted our focus to increasing adoption of masks and face coverings, as it was becoming clear that widespread adoption of masks could effectively reduce disease spread. We have taken what we have learned and extended our modeling and behavioral change work to other COVID-19 prevention and mitigation strategies to help communities stay healthy while helping businesses operate safely and build resilience over the course of the pandemic.
Team
Board of Directors
Safe Start Team
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Sandra O. Archibald
Senior Research Fellow -
Akhtar Badshah
Senior Research Fellow -
Mitch Eggers
Senior Research Fellow -
Billy Farrell
Policy Analyst -
Lisa Goodman
Senior Research Fellow -
Linda Lake
Contract Manager -
Aishe Memetova
Project Assistant
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Sarah Siddiqui
Project Assistant -
Genevieve Tremblay
Senior Digital Strategist
UW Comm Leadership Team
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Niharika Arora
Data Analyst & Report Writer -
Marina Baur
Visual Story Teller -
Sasha Buz
Creative Coordinator -
Ikram Navia
Creative Content Designer -
Alyssa Seng
Campaign Coordinator -
Isabel Shen
Design & Video Production -
Stasea Stewart
Comm Project Manager -
Alex Stonehill
Communication Advisor -
Audrey Widner
Social Media Moderator - List Item
Partners
Government
- The Office of the Governor, WA - Jay Inslee
- County Government Partners (Pierce, Snohomish, King, Chelan-Douglas)
- Washington State Department of Commerce*
- Washington State Department of Health (DOH)*
- Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)
University
- Center for an Informed Public
- Havard University School of Health
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Washington State University Small Business Development Center (WSBDC)*
- University of Washington Communication Leadership
- University of Washington COVID Response Team
- University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
- University of Washington Population Health Initiative
- University of Washington Psychology
- Washington State University
- Washington State University Extension Program
Business & Technology
- Association of Washington Business (AWB)*
- Block by Block Creative
- Challange Seattle
- Cheerity
- Choiceflows
- David Wright Tremaine
- Kantar Research
- Impact Washington*
- Local Chambers of Commerce
- McKenzie Worldwide
- National Development Council (NDC)*
- Microsoft Alumni Foundation
- Pioneer Square Labs
- Real Networks
- Tanjo
- Thurston Economic Development Council*
- Seattle Sounders FC
- Upswell
- Washington Maritime Blue*
- Wilson Sonsini
Non-Profit
- All in WA
- Chief Seattle Club
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Global Washington
- Kindering
- Nurturing Roots
- Pacific Science Center
- Sea Mar Community Health Centers
- Seattle Foundation
- SmartAID
- Uplift Northwest (Formerly Millionaire Club Charity)
- World Health Organization
* Safe Start Partner