UW Department of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop) faculty are involved in a broad range of activities centered around population health research and public health practice. Faculty have a long and successful history of securing government and private support for projects that range in jurisdictional scope from local, regional, state, national, to global.
HSPop faculty play an important role in improving health and shaping health care systems and policy worldwide by developing and testing interventions and translating research into practice. Faculty participate, collaborate, and lead a variety of organizations and associations outside the University of Washington. Through these relationships, faculty can provide additional experiences and opportunities to students.
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Neil F Abernethy
Associate Professor
206-616-2813
Research Interests: Public Health Informatics standards, epidemic models, and molecular epidemiology in the context of global health; scientific and social networks as they pertain to collaborative research; novel 3-D imaging displays; environmental interventions for infectious disease; high-throughput biology; evolutionary game theory.
Ellen Ann Ahlness Abdulmuminov
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Qualitative research methods, social determinants of health, health workforce, Veteran health, indigenous health policy
Susan Allan
Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Public health practice; emergency preparedness; public health law
Antoinette Angulo
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Currently: Adult experiential learning; Community-driven action for environmental justice; Storytelling in community health assessments. Generally: Community building for health; Bridging evidence and policymaking; Qualitative research & evaluation; Latinx/e health; multi-sectoral collaboration to advance health equity; leadership development
Juan M. Aragon
Clinical Instructor
425-899-2608
Research Interests: Strategy, Ambulatory Care, Innovation, Care Transformation, Impact of Healthcare Consolidation
Patricia Atwater
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Abortion access; tobacco and nicotine addiction treatment and recover; health disparities; queer and transgender health
Geoff R. Austin
Clinical Instructor
206-598-8318
Research Interests: Health economics and finance; management
Emily Bancroft
Clinical Instructor
emily.bancroft@villagereach.org
Research Interests: Health workforce; health informatics; supply chain management; health systems strengthening; Sub-Saharan Africa
Sahar Banijamali
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-619-5004
sahar.banijamali@myseiubenefits.org
Research Interests: Caregiving; home care services and workforce; health promotion and behavior change; health promotion; equity; comparative effectiveness; equity, and survey design
Caleb J. Banta-Green
Adjunct Research Professor
206-685-3919
Research Interests: Drug abuse epidemiology; health services research; youth substance abuse prevention; drug overdose prevention; drug treatment services research
Barbara Baquero
Associate Professor
206-685-5052
Research Interests: Health equity; racial and ethnic health; urban and rural disparities; community-based participatory research; social and structural determinants of health; Latino and immigrant populations; chronic disease; cancer prevention and control
Kathleen Barker
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-769-3764
Research Interests: Laboratory ethics and management
Wendy Barrington
Associate Professor
206-616-6298
Research Interests: Social determinants and health disparities; obesity and cancer prevention; community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Janet G. Baseman
Adjunct Professor
206-616-1495
Research Interests: Applied epidemiology in public health practice; informatics; infectious disease epidemiology; surveillance; coronavirus; Covid-19; emerging diseases; epidemics; pandemics; disease outbreaks
Anirban Basu
Professor
206-616-2986
Research Interests: Health econometrics; cost-effectiveness; comparative effectiveness and value of information analyses; quality of life; spill-over effects; substantive focus on cancer, mental health and diabetes
Betty Bekemeier
Adjunct Professor
206-616-8411
Research Interests: Effective public health system performance; public health financing; local public health service variation and population health impact; disparities in public health system resource allocation; public health workforce development and leadership
Michelle Bell
Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Health and social policy; Organization and delivery of community-based services; Adolescent health; Minority health.
Basia Belza
Adjunct Professor
206-685-2266
Research Interests: Nursing; gerontology; role transitions
Mary Beth Bennett
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Health communication, effective public health campaigning, vaccine education, preventive health, climate justice, health equity, health benefits of tax credits and other financial supports
Noelle Benzekri
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Sociobehavioral research, qualitative methods, mixed methods, implementation, and community-based research; One Health and Planetary Health; food security; traditional healers; HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis; zoonotic viruses
Stephen Bezruchka
Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus
206-932-4928
Research Interests: Effective methods of disseminating determinants of population health to the general population so they work to change societal structures to improve America’s health; theories of global health asking the question why do countries order by health outcomes such as life expectancy in the Health Olympics?; medical harm and the lack of interest in the USA for responding to this marked health risk; medical tourism and its affect on host populations
Katharine Bradley
Affiliate Professor
Research Interests: Alcoholism prevention (screening, intervention and epidemiology in primary care setting); women’s health; post-traumatic stress disorder
Brian W. Bresnahan
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Research Interests: Radiology; health economics
Karyn Brownson
Clinical Instructor
206-477-7755
Research Interests: Firearm injury prevention; community trauma and resilience; suicide prevention; child and youth violence and injury prevention
Katrin Burkart
Research Interests: Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Heat, Infectious diseases, Risk Assessment
Miruna Buta
Associate Teaching Professor
206-616-4724
Research Interests: Healthy aging; social network analysis; organizational collaboration; dissemination and implementation science; chronic disease prevention and control
Lisa Callegari
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Interventions to promote patient-centered reproductive health care, provider-patient communication, reproductive planning, and contraceptive counseling; shared decision making; the intersection of mental health and reproductive health
Miranda Calmjoy
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Health equity; Health in All Policies; social determinants of health; reproductive justice
Kate Causey
Clinical Instructor
205-405-4186
kate.causey@myseiubenefits.org
Research Interests: Social determinants of health; labor unions and organizing; health equity
Sarah H. Cave
Clinical Associate Professor
206-221-5251
Research Interests: Management of health care organizations
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan
Professor
Research Interests: Survival analysis and stochastic processes; epidemiological design and analysis; missing data and causal inference; nonlinear mixed models and predictions; semiparametric models
Geetanjali Chander
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Substance use (alcohol use in particular); Communicable (HIV, TB, HCV) and non-communicable (alcohol-related liver disease) diseases; Epidemiological studies, clinical trials and implementation research to improve outcomes for persons with alcohol and other substance use disorders and HIV infection
Michael Chapko
Research Professor Emeritus
206-764-2821
Research Interests: Ambulatory care; long-term care; cost-effectiveness
Van Chaudhari
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health care operations; strategy planning; primary care innovations; team-based panel management; ACOs; care transformation and quality improvement; lean; six sigma standardization; care pathways
Elise Chayet
Clinical Instructor
206-818-6281
Research Interests: Safety net health care delivery systems; Public health policy particularly on the intersection of health status, health care delivery and social determinants of health, such as housing; Financing public health interventions
Anthony Chen
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Community health planning and program development; quality and systems improvement; access to health care; cross-cultural medicine and cultural competency in health care; hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asian and Pacific Islander communities
Roxana Chen
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-263-1679
Research Interests: chronic disease disparities; health equity; social determinants of health; community-based participatory research; mixed methods to evaluate community and population-level interventions
Donald L Chi
Professor
206-616-4332
Research Interests: Children’s oral health inequalities; social and behavioral determinants of oral health; community-based behavioral interventions; Alaska Native oral health disparities; preventive care decision making in pediatric dentistry; Medicaid
Norma B Coe
Affiliate Associate Professor
Research Interests: Long-term care; disability policy; health insurance; how government programs impact health and behavior; how health/disability and the labor market are intertwined
Allison M Cole
Adjunct Professor
206-685-9879
Research Interests: Cancer screening and prevention; implementation science; primary care practice-based research
Jean Colley
Clinical Instructor
206-499-8525
Research Interests: Communication with health care professionals
Francesca Collins
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Sexual health; reproductive justice; harm-reduction practices at the intersection of substance use and communicable diseases; health education; behavior change counseling; community outreach and advocacy
Jim Condon
Associate Teaching Professor
206-543-4239
Research Interests: Student outcomes; healthcare disparities; health care finance; management principles
Frederick A Connell
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Pediatrics health services and epidemiological research; health outcomes; medicaid; access to care.
Douglas A Conrad
Professor Emeritus
206-616-2923
Research Interests: Vertical integration in health services; integrated health systems; impact of financial incentives on physician behavior
Tj Cosgrove
Lecturer
Research Interests: Health system reform; health equity; adolescent health; school-based health; leadership development
Beverly Court
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evidence-based public policy development; Medicaid/Medicare dual eligible populations; implementation of Medicaid health reform and chronic care management for high risk/high cost Medicaid clients
Audrey Lynn Covner
Clinical Associate Professor
425-466-4804
Research Interests: Population health; criminal justice reform; legislation and advocacy
Paul K Crane
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Psychometrics and measurement theory; Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive functioning
Swee May Cripe
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-221-3953
Research Interests: Health disparities; Health equity; Maternal and child health; Immigrant health; Global health; Intimate partner violence; Mood and anxiety disorder; Environmental health
Julia Crouch
Clinical Instructor
206-987-7484
julia.crouch@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Transgender health and healthcare access; adolescent health; geder-affirming health systems; qualitative research
Colleen M. Daly
Affiliate Professor
Research Interests: Maternal health, Occupational Health and Safety
Jason Daniel-Ulloa
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Latinx Health, Social Construction of Gender and the impact on health, Discrimination and other challenges to educational success experienced by students from marginalized communities. Community-Based Participatory Research
Bill Daniell
206-685-3160
Research Interests:
Bill’s major active research efforts focus on environmental and occupational health problems in Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia, including projects related to pesticide exposures and cholinesterase monitoring, arsenic in ground water, and others. Other ongoing or recent research interests include: workplace noise exposure and noise-induced hearing loss; work-related carpal tunnel syndrome, particularly treatment outcomes and disability; and the use of workers’ compensation data for guiding occupational health interventions. Bill enjoys serving as faculty mentor for student-initiated epidemiologic research projects, focusing on environmental or occupational health topics, not necessarily limited to his primary research interest areas. Other past research interests include: solvent and pesticide health effects, neuropsychological sequelae of chemical exposures, and multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome.
Giana Hystad Davidson
Adjunct Professor
206-543-9559
Research Interests: Improving the health of patients receiving specialized post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities following hospitalization
Cheryl E. Davis
Clinical Instructor
206-987-5518
cheryl.davis@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Parenteral micronutrients
Elizabeth E Dawson-Hahn
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Migration Health, Multilingual Children and Families, Mixed-Methods, Qualitative, Community Engagement, Human Centered Design
Alysun Deckert
Clinical Instructor
206-598-6351
Research Interests: Nutrition and transplant; critical care nutrition; wellness/exercise
Donna M. Denno
Adjunct Professor
206-685-0391
Research Interests: Childhood infectious diseases, child and adolescent health in developing countries, health care delivery strategies
Paula Diehr
Professor Emeritus
206-543-8004
Research Interests: Statistics, insurance, quality of life
Douglas S. Diekema
Adjunct Professor
206-987-4346
Research Interests: Bioethical issues; consent and confidentiality issues in pediatrics; the limits of parental medical decision-making authority for children; ethics and child health policy; ethics in emergency medicine; disaster and pandemic preparedness; coronavirus; Covid-19; emerging diseases; epidemics; ethical issues related to pandemic response and policy; disease outbreaks
Julia Dilley
Affiliate Instructor
360-402-7877
Research Interests: Applied public health research on substance-related policies (cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs), with a focus on public health surveillance methods and equity-centered approaches.
Christian Dimaano
Clinical Associate Professor
801-674-3344
Research Interests: Cancer health disparities, health equity, health education, qualitative methods
Kemi Doll
Adjunct Professor
206-543-3669
Research Interests: National patterns of gynecologic oncology treatment and survival; disparities in gynecologic cancer care; quality of life and gynecologic surgery
Anthony Dorsch
Clinical Instructor
425-449-1626
Research Interests: Financial planning & analysis: financial forecasting integrating risk management with return on investment.
Capital management: fair market valuation of strategic capital projects.
William Dowling
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: The relationships between the changing environment of health care, the strategic and structural responses of health care organizations, their management, and their performance; management practice in health care organizations; physicians in management and leadership roles; the medical home model of primary care; rural health care
Jerome Alexander Dugan
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health insurance status and the organization of the healthcare system impacts on healthcare cost and quality
Rags Durvasula
Clinical Associate Professor
425-259-1863
Research Interests: Quality improvement; patient safety; operational efficiency
Penelope Anne Edlund
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-504-5945
Research Interests: Population health, healthcare quality; reducing healthcare disparities; Healthy People 2030; emerging technology in healthcare; healthcare delivery trends; measuring and improving healthcare quality, access and affordability; leading practices; global health trends; transformative leadership
Amy Tran Edmonds
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Intersection of health services research and social/psychiatric epidemiology; policy and program evaluation, especially related to efforts to improve access and quality of mental health and substance use services and behavioral health outcomes; assessment of health inequities and social determinants of health; administrative data, nontraditional data sources, cross-sector data integration
Todd C. Edwards
Associate Professor Emeritus
206-685-4738
Research Interests: Development and validation of patient-reported measures of symptoms, function, and quality of life; integration of patient-reported measures into clinical practice, decision making, and assessment of treatment outcomes.
Hanna Ekstrom
Clinical Assistant Professor
425-770-6069
Research Interests: one health; health equity; public health
Thomas Eng
Clinical Assistant Professor
253-200-5244
Research Interests: Health technology; business
Daniel A. Enquobahrie
Adjunct Professor
206-543-7559
Research Interests: Dr. Enquobahrie’s research interests span cardiovascular/metabolic, reproductive/perinatal, and genetic/epigenetic epidemiology. His research focuses on (1) pre-pregnancy and early/mid pregnancy risk factors (and associated mechanisms) for pregnancy complications and outcomes, and (2) early life and developmental origins of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
Nicole A Errett
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Sustainable Communities, COVID-19, Climate Change, Community-engaged Research, Disaster resilience, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Heat, Policy, Population Health Initiative, Wildfires
Ruth B. Etzioni
Affiliate Professor
206-667-6561
Research Interests: Statistical methods in cancer screening, Bayesian methods in biostatistics, design issues in clinical trials.
Yolanda Evans
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health promotion; adolescent health and wellness; expanding health care access through telehealth and videoconferencing
Vincent S. Fan
Adjunct Professor
206-764-2504
Research Interests: Management of chronic disease; lung disease; ICU outcomes; comorbidity; depression; medication adherence; quality of life
Stephanie Farquhar
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental justice, policy, affordable housing, mixed methods
Stephan D Fihn
Professor
Research Interests: Quality of care particularly in the outpatient setting and in health measurement; clinical topics including heart disease, COPD, UTI, anticoagulation
Brad Finnegan
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Consumer choice; health insurance; value base payment; health system transformation
Molly Firth
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health policy development and implementation
Marie Flake
Clinical Instructor
360-951-7566
Research Interests: Public health practice; infrastructure development; systems planning
David R. Flum
Adjunct Professor
206-616-5440
Research Interests: Surgical epidemiology; outcomes research; population-based data
Mark Forehand
Adjunct Professor
206-685-1955
Research Interests: Marketing public health interventions; consumer social identity; implicit cognition
Gary M Franklin
Adjunct Research Professor
206-685-7193
Research Interests: Safe Workplaces, Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine, Opioids, Policy
Bianca K Frogner
Adjunct Professor
206-616-9657
Research Interests: Health economics; health workforce; health insurance; comparative health systems
Anjulie Ganti
Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Race; privilege; cultural humility; gender, sexuality and justice
Victoria Gardner
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-616-9394
Research Interests: Equity in higher education and health professions education; health equity; social justice; social determinants of health; health and educational leadership
Luciano Garofalo
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Dr. Garofalo’s research centers health equity for children and adolescents through the implementation of Whole Person healthcare in the school setting. He is currently co-investigator on a large evaluation study of the King County school-based clinics, identifying potential differences in service utilization by race/ethnicity and school setting.
Michelle Garrison
Affiliate Professor
206-616-8530
Research Interests: Child and adolescent sleep problems; interactions between media use, physical activity, and sleep, and the impact on health and behavior; development and testing of health behavior change interventions; pediatric inpatient quality of care and quality improvement research
Kelly C Gilmore
Clinical Instructor
206-685-1855
Research Interests: Contraception, community-engaged research, maternal and child health disparities
Joe Glass
Affiliate Associate Professor
206-287-4266
Research Interests: Substance use disorder services; research and statistical methods; implementation science; digital therapeutics
Steve Gloyd
Professor
206-616-2922
Research Interests: Health systems research, implementation science, political economy of global health
Tony A Gomez
Clinical Instructor
206-263-8178
Research Interests: Injury prevention; public policy; environmental health
Linn Gould
Clinical Instructor
206-324-0297
Research Interests: Health equity; social determinants of health; environmental justice; health impact assessment
Janessa Graves
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Occupational health services; rural health; health equity; community-engaged research; administrative and secondary data analysis; injury research; underserved populations
Kristen Gray
Research Associate Professor
Research Interests: Reproductive health across the lifespan; health behaviors and their mechanisms of change; risk factors and outcomes of diabetes;
Howard P. Greenwald
Clinical Professor
213-268-4238
Research Interests: Longevity; social epidemiology; health service delivery and management; international health systems; program evaluation
David E Grembowski
Professor Emeritus
206-616-2921
Research Interests: Design and performance of health care systems; prevention; technology diffusion; program evaluation; survey research
Lindsey Greto
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Community health promotion; marijuana and tobacco policy, laws and regulation
Natalia Theresa B. Groat
Clinical Instructor
206-663-4638
Research Interests: Nutrition support; critical care nutrition; nutrition in traumatic brain injury
David Grossman
Clinical Professor
206-287-2948
Research Interests: Injury control; suicide prevention; firearm injury prevention; quality improvement
Christopher Gunderson
Clinical Instructor
208-514-2500
Research Interests: Management of cardiac and pulmonary pathology and associated cardiac risk factors; operations; informatics; Quality Improvement; Payor Reform; social determinants of health
Amy Hagopian
Professor Emeritus
206-616-4989
Research Interests: International health workforce issues, the effects of war on global health
Kevin A Hallgren
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-616-2906
Research Interests: Substance use disorder treatment; technology-supported treatment; longitudinal data analysis; psychometric data analysis
Mary Alice Hanken
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
206-543-8833
Research Interests: Health information management; privacy and confidentiality of health information
Peggy Hannon
Professor and Acting/Interim Director
206-616-7859
Research Interests: Cancer prevention and control; chronic disease prevention; dissemination and implementation research; health promotion; workplace health promotion
Jeff Harris
Professor
206-616-8113
Research Interests: Adult immunization; cancer screening; chronic disease; community-based prevention; health equity; health promotion; implementation science; older adults; physical activity; tobacco; workplace health; COVID-19
Karen Hartfield
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-263-2023
Research Interests: Effectiveness of health behavior/health promotion interventions
John Hartgraves
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Health Informatics, Digital Health, Cybersecurity, Instructional Effectiveness
Samantha A. Hatzenbeler
Clinical Instructor
206-949-4476
Research Interests: Social determinants of health; racial/economic/gender equity; climate justice
Paul L Hebert
Research Professor
206-277-4165
Research Interests: Chronic disease with elderly and minority populations; disease management; social determinants of health disparities
Christian Helfrich
Research Associate Professor
Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation research; implementation science; organizational change; change management; de-implementation of ineffective and harmful practice
Seth M Hennessey
Clinical Instructor
206-668-1695
Research Interests: Leadership development; performance improvement; business intelligence/analytics
Nora Henrikson
Affiliate Associate Professor
Research Interests: Social and behavioral science; behavioral epidemiology; systematic review and evidence synthesis;survey research; qualitative research; cancer prevention and control; price transparency
Lindsay Ann Herendeen
Clinical Instructor
360-628-6823
Research Interests: Health equity; Health in All Policies; social determinants of health; environmental justice
Theresa Hoeft
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
206-543-2167
Research Interests: Mixed-methods in health services research, health economics and community-based participatory research; scalable and culturally responsive models of behavioral health care delivery; integrating behavioral health into primary care; clinic-community partnerships to address social determinants of health; lay health providers work in and with health care systems; multi-sector collaborations to improve population health
Katherine D. Hoerster
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-277-4203
Research Interests: Veteran health; multilevel determinants of health and health behavior; health promotion and behavioral weight loss interventions; peer support interventions
Adam S. Hoverman
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Co-production of health and social care, Population health, Social prescribing, Social epidemiology, Narrative medicine, Health system strengthening
Clarissa W. Hsu
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-287-4276
Research Interests: Evaluation research; participatory research and evaluation; midwifery care; end-of-life care; medical anthropology; community-based public health
Christine Hurley
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-369-5464
Research Interests: Community and public health, AIDS/HIV
Rachel Issaka
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-667-1447
Research Interests: Optimizing interventions that improve colorectal cancer care outcomes; achieving health equity in colorectal cancer screening and follow-up in underserved popultations
Joyce F. Jackson
Clinical Associate Professor
206-612-5687
Research Interests: Management; chronic disease
Jessica Jeavons
Clinical Assistant Professor
908-489-8886
Research Interests: Public health policy, Health equity, public health law, public health ethics, bioethics
Amy Jenkins
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-920-2498
Research Interests: Trauma Informed Leadership, Process Improvement, Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Lauren Jenks
Clinical Instructor
360-236-3050
Research Interests: Public health practice; health science communication
Nathalia Jimenez
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Development and evaluation of culturally and linguistically concordant programs to bridge care between hospitals and community services.
Donna B Johnson
Professor Emeritus
206-685-1068
Research Interests: Pediatric nutrition; efficacy of public health nutrition interventions; public health approaches to obesity
Brian D. Johnston
Adjunct Professor
206-744-9507
Research Interests: Implementation of community-based injury prevention; pediatric care
Salene Jones
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-667-6976
Research Interests: Financial hardship: financial anxiety; psychometrics; clinical outcome assessment
Jessica C Jones-Smith
Professor
206-685-4579
Research Interests: Social, environmental and economic causes and correlates of obesity risk; distal drivers of nutrition-related health inequities; community and individual economic resources as causal factors in obesity-related health status; obesity-related impacts of health and non-health related policies; disparities in nutrition-related diseases based on socioeconomic factors and race/ethnicity; public health nutrition; obesity epidemic; obesity epidemiology
Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: improving care in jails; health equity; intersectionality of carceral health care, public health and primary care; professional identity development of medical residents; HIV/STI care
Carrie Kaelin
Teaching Professor
206-616-5975
Research Interests: Process and quality improvement; accessibility and affordability of health care services; ethics in healthcare
Rhonda Kaetzel
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Toxicology; water protection; air monitoring; environmental human health assessment; dose reconstruction; environmental health services
Hilary Karasz
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-263-8705
Research Interests: Health communication; text-messaging for public health
Bryant Thomas Karras
Clinical Instructor
206-221-6676
Research Interests: – Informatics methods to improve public health
– PH preparedness, prevention, health promotion, disease surveillance and non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g. WA notify)
– Syndromic surveillance for bioterrorism and epidemic detection
– PH linkage to clinical information systems via Health Information Exchange for use in monitoring hospital capacity and chronic disease population analysis
– Using portable computers and the web for health survey data collection and health guideline implementation
– Person empowerment to portably carry their personal and family medical records on smart phones and QR-codes (e.g. WA verify)
Tanya E Karwaki
Assistant Teaching Professor
206-221-8412
Research Interests: Dr. Karwaki’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of health law, bioethics, and health policy, and her research examines the impact of law and regulation on health care access and delivery, including emerging trends in health care delivery, health care professionalism, and provider-patient relationships.
Aaron Katz {he, him, his}
Principal Lecturer Emeritus
206-616-5227
Research Interests: Health policy; health sector leadership; social/political determinants; health system market change; health care costs and access, health sector education and training
Marie Kava
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-685-9504
Research Interests: Tobacco control; workplace health promotion; implementation science; social determinants of health; health equity
Eli Kern
Clinical Instructor
206-263-8272
Research Interests: Evaluation of impact of Affordable Care Act on population health and health care; community needs assessment; cost outcomes analysis; disparities assessment; data visualization
Larry Kessler
Professor
206-543-2703
Research Interests: Cost-effectiveness and diagnostic value of medical technology in screening for cancer and other diseases
H. Nina Kim
Adjunct Professor
206-744-5130
Research Interests: Patient-centered outcomes; viral hepatitis; HIV; quality improvement; data science; electronic health record
Eileen J. Klein
Adjunct Professor
206-987-2708
eileen.klein@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Sedation and analgesia
Sarah Knerr
Assistant Professor
206-221-1755
Research Interests: Cancer prevention and control; translational genomics; stakeholder engagement; health and health care disparities
Cynthia Ko
Adjunct Professor
206-543-4407
Research Interests: Colorectal cancer screening and outcomes
Linda K. Ko
Affiliate Professor
206-685-4978
Research Interests: Health communication interventions using new media; decision making in cancer screening; mediators and moderators of behavior change; cancer prevention and control; obesity prevention; health literacy and health disparity; aging and social support
Thomas D Koepsell
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Epidemiologic methods, Injury epidemiology, neuroepidemiology, veterans health, application of epidemiology to evaluation of health services
Branko Kopjar
Associate Professor Emeritus
206-221-3349
Research Interests: Prevention effectiveness; outcomes research; comparative effectiveness; neurosurgery; orthopedics, biostatistics; quality of care; clinical trials
Jim Krieger
Clinical Professor Emeritus
206-451-8186
Research Interests: Chronic disease prevention; healthy food policy, nutrition science; policy evaluation; asthma
A. Krishnaswamy
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health equity; education and health policy; health education
Tao Kwan-Gett
Clinical Professor
Research Interests: Public health practice; communicable disease epidemiology; health informatics
Blishda E. Lacet
Clinical Instructor
206-263-8192
Research Interests: Health equity; healthy eating; active living
Sharon Laing
Adjunct Associate Professor
253-692-4470
Research Interests: Chronic disease prevention; technology and health promotion; mobile health promotion; health disparities; cancer prevention; community health and wellness
Karima Lalani
Assistant Teaching Professor
206-543-3146
Research Interests: Health informatics; digital health; workforce development; interprofessional education; academic medical centers; leadership; higher education
Caitlin M Lang
Clinical Instructor
360-628-7342
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Public Health Critical Race Praxis, Health in All Policies
Kathryn Langley
Clinical Instructor
206-406-3369
kasey@kaseylangleyconsulting.com
Research Interests: Policy-focused and systems-level evaluation; using evaluative thinking for planning; evaluation capacity building (particularly related to family support and prevention of child maltreatment)
Gwen Lapham
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-287-2021
Research Interests: Implementation and evaluation of behavioral health and substance use care in primary care; identification and treatment of unhealthy substance use disorders; assessment of medical and nonmedical cannabis use; treatment of opiate use disorders; mixed methods; pairing qualitative interviews and surveys with population-based evaluation of electronic health records
Danielle Lavallee
Affiliate Associate Professor
Research Interests: Patient engagement; patient-reported outcomes; patient-centered outcomes
Andrew Lee
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Talent Management, Public Health, Community Engagement, Social Determinant of Health, Mental Health
Christoph I Lee
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Imaging-based breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and surveillance; risk-based cancer screening; technology assessment; radiology health services research; radiology practice management
Sinang Lee
Clinical Instructor
206-263-1192
Research Interests: environmental health, environmental justice, health impact assessments, health promotion, climate resiliency, built environment, risk communication, program development, program evaluation, community engagement, community-based participatory approaches, unhoused populations, refugee and immigrant health, school health and safety, pesticides safety education
Cynthia LeRouge
Affiliate Professor
Research Interests: Telemedicine; consumer health informatics; public health informatics; health IT project management; HCI in health care
Kendra S Liljenquist
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Child and family health; health equity and health disparities; developmental disabilities; global health
Chuan-Fen Liu
Research Professor Emeritus
206-764-2587
Research Interests: Health economics; mental health; risk adjustment; outcomes research.
Bill Lober
Adjunct Professor
206-616-6685
Research Interests: Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Data Standards
Kathryn Lofy
Clinical Professor
Research Interests: Applied epidemiology; public health workforce development and leadership; infectious disease epidemiology; surveillance
Sara Mackenzie
Teaching Professor Emeritus
206-685-6699
Research Interests: Health promotion; substance abuse
Robert Malte
Clinical Associate Professor
303-941-5285
Research Interests: Executive leadership; community engagement; career development
Michele D. Marchand
Clinical Instructor
206-956-0334
Research Interests: Homelessness; homeless deaths; community organizing; self-management; housing and shelter development; housing and shelter models
Tessa Matson
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research Interests: substance use and substance use disorder, addiction health services, implementation science, health equity
Chuck Maynard
Research Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease; administrative databases
Eyob Mazengia
Research Interests: Clean Water, Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Infectious diseases, Policy, Pollution
Mari O Mazon
Clinical Instructor
206-598-3025
Research Interests: Nutrition for children with special health care needs; nutrition and pulmonary diseases; nutrition and sleep
Susan McBride
Clinical Instructor
206-744-2414
Research Interests: Nutrition support for hospitalized patients; food service quality improvement
Jennifer McClure
Affiliate Professor
206-287-2737
Research Interests: Health behavior change; smoking cessation; motivational interventions
Rick McPherson
Research Interests: Developing and motivating employees for success, justified decision making, strategic planning and creating inclusive organizations.
Hendrika W Meischke
Professor
Research Interests: Health communication; health promotion; theory development
Jason A. Mendoza
Adjunct Professor
206-884-1261
jason.mendoza@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Racial/ethnic minorities/disparities; physical activity promotion (walking/biking to school); screen time (TV) reduction; food insecurity and relationship to outcomes of pediatric chronic disease (HIV and diabetes)
Ashley C Mog
Affiliate Instructor
Research Interests: Qualitative research, health equity, women’s health, LGBTQ health, implementation science
Alexandra Montano
Clinical Instructor
360-236-4205
Research Interests: Health policy; health statistics
Leo Morales
Adjunct Professor
206-685-2489
Research Interests: Minority health and health disparities; obesity and diabetes; psychometric methods
Erin Morgan
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Injury; suicide prevention; mental health; health equity; epidemiology methods
Chris Mornick
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Food Waste, Food Systems, Food Security, Food and Nutrition Policy, Farm to Early Childhood Education, Nutrition Guidelines
Amanda Morse
Clinical Instructor
206-437-2045
Research Interests: monitoring and prevention of suicidal thoughts and behaviours, substance use, interpersonal violence, and unintentional injuries; community-based participatory research; collaborative creation of interactive data tools with community partners; and public health informatics.
Tracy Mroz
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health Policy, Post-Acute Care, Home Health Care, Health Workforce, Rural Health, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Rehabilitation Services, Medicare
Stipica Mudrazija
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Financial gerontology and intergenerational transfers; Healthy aging; Dementia; Disability; Long-term services and supports; Family caregiving; Racial and ethnic health disparities among older adults; Cross-national comparative study of population aging; Health and welfare policies
Sarah Munro
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Contraception and abortion, shared decision making, patient decision aids, access to care, community-based research, health equity, implementation and dissemination, qualitative and mixed methods
Mohit Nair
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Digital health, health equity, health system reform, antibiotic resistance
Kari Nelson
Adjunct Professor
206-277-4507
Research Interests: Patient-centered medical home, diabetes self-management, chronic disease management, community health workers
Lonnie Nelson
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health behaviors and health promotion; chronic disease prevention and management
Bud Nicola
Affiliate Professor
206-221-6179
Research Interests: Effective group functioning; public health infrastructure
Brett Niessen
Affiliate Instructor
Research Interests: Comprehensive sex education; bullying prevention; teen access to health care; education of incarcerated youth; HIV/STD/teen pregnancy prevention; healthy relationships; trauma-informed sexual health education; enthusiastic consent; LGBTQ and youth of color inclusion in sex ed; reducing youth health disparities; health education, health literacy, and plain language
Megan Jane E Nordlund
Clinical Instructor
206-744-2414
Research Interests: Nutrition support for burn patients and hospitalized patients; vitamin D; zinc
Sandra Nunn
Clinical Instructor
505-280-5761
Research Interests: Information governance; electronic health records; knowledge management; legal issues in health information management; information security and privacy
Kurt C. O’Brien
Associate Teaching Professor
206-221-1141
Research Interests: Adaptive leadership
Group dynamics/group facilitation
Patrick W O’Carroll
Affiliate Professor
Research Interests: Global health; health systems strengthening; public health informatics; epidemiology; emergency preparedness and health security; coronavirus; Covid-19; emerging diseases; epidemics; pandemics; disease outbreaks; neglected tropical diseases; health campaign effectiveness
Barbara Obena
Clinical Instructor
206-531-5647
Research Interests: Health equity; population health; equity centered community design; quality improvement
Vanessa M. Oddo
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Role of employment and working conditions on obesity risk; obesity epidemiology; social determinants of health; chronic disease; the nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries; public health nutrition
Tokunbo Olukoya
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-668-6669
Research Interests: Healthcare Administration
India J. Ornelas
Professor
206-685-8887
Research Interests: Racial and ethnic health disparities; social determinants of health; Latino and immigrant populations; American Indian populations; health promotion interventions; community-based participatory research; cancer prevention; mental health; substance use; coronavirus
Shanise Owens
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: child and adolescent mental health, global mental health, digital health, health equity and justice, public health policy and advocacy, evaluation, social and economic determinants of health, mixed methods research
Aley Pallickaparambil
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Data linkage; American Indian and Alaska Native tribal public health; homelessness and health; reproductive health access; maternal and child health; mental health and substance abuse
Myra Parker
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-616-5887
Research Interests: Community-based participatory tesearch; cultural adaptation of evidence-based interventions; disparities research; Indigenous research principles; human subjects research ethics; tribal control and access of research data through formalized agreements and other mechanisms that support tribal sovereignty
Canada Parrish
Clinical Assistant Professor
253-208-5535
Research Interests: Using observational and routine health data to improve population health initiatives and
inform health policies and clinical care guidelines
Neha J. Patel
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-341-0723
neha.patel900@commonspirit.org
Research Interests: Quality process management
Donald L Patrick
Professor Emeritus
206-685-7252
Research Interests: Outcomes in health policy and treatment effectiveness; improving end-of-life care; health behavior and health promotion; disability policy; community intervention; resource allocation
Dalin Pel
Clinical Instructor
206-630-2146
Research Interests: Healthcare law; privacy and security; health information management; EMR; EHR; healthcare information technology; privacy law; process improvement; project management
Rob Penfold
Affiliate Professor
206-287-2232
Research Interests: Pediatric mental health; Medicaid utilization; comparative effectiveness of psychotropic medications; impact of high-deductible health plan enrollment on utilization; cost benefit of mental health treatments; geographic disparities in access and utilization of mental health services
Daniel Peplow
Clinical Professor
509-930-7247
Research Interests: Prof. Peplow has interacted directly with the UN, the Organization of American States, IADB, World Bank, the G20, communities, and other diverse international partners to develop a methodology global health practitioners could use to further address international health crises where international policies contribute to compromised health conditions that pose a regional threat to security. A key question asked in response to his request for a joined-up effort to address specific global health issues has been: “Where are the bodies”. To answer that question, Prof. Peplow is now developing a cloud-based “app” that victims, their families, and communities in the Guiana Shield region can use to self-report health issues traceable to the assimilation process. Comments, questions, and suggestions are currently being solicited from all sectors that will be used to prepare a final design model and make the app an effective tool for addressing non-communicable NTD’s and for increasing stability in the region.
Edward B Perrin
Professor Emeritus
206-616-2982
Research Interests: Outcomes research, Health promotion, Program evaluation
Kathleen Peterson
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
206-543-5028
Research Interests: Clinical Terminologies, Revenue Cycle Management, Health Information Systems, Healthcare Privacy and Security
James Pfeiffer
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; International health; HIV/AIDS prevention
Elizabeth A. Phelan
Adjunct Professor
206-744-9112
Research Interests: Delivering effective primary care to older adults; health promotion
Hunter J Plumer
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Health Planning | Statistical Analysis for Health Law Cases | Certificate of Need
Gerry Pollet
Clinical Instructor
206-729-3242
Research Interests: Gerry has over 30 years of experience working on risk assessment and standards for environmental contamination, including exposure scenarios and public input. He has worked extensively with Tribes to incorporate Native American and Tribal exposure scenarios in cleanup and hazardous waste related decisions. He has served on numerous agency advisory boards relating to hazardous substance cleanup. Gerry has lectured and presented in numerous forums on risk assessment and public input to exposure scenarios in hazardous waste site cleanup planning; and is frequently cited in national and regional news media. Gerry continues to work with students interested in research and evidence-based policies on e-cigarettes / vaping, preventing lead exposure, funding foundational public health and other public health topics.
Debra Primeau
Clinical Instructor
310-617-0042
dprimeau@primeauconsultinggroup.com
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information Management and Governance, Ethics in healthcare information, Ethics in healthcare artificial intelligence
Hallie Pritchett
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Comparative Health Systems, Systems Change, Population Health, Health Equity
Marc E Provence
Clinical Associate Professor
206-794-9120
Research Interests: Health policy, health systems, access to care, public programs.
Rachel Prusynski
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Medicare policy, Quality of Care, Post-Acute Care, Healthcare Workforce, Post-Acute Rehabilitation, Home Health Care, Skilled Nursing Facilities
Bruce M Psaty
Adjunct Professor
206-221-7775
Research Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology; myocardial infarction and stroke; Venous thrombosis; atrial fibrillation; risk factors, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes; pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety; genetics, genomics and pharmacogenetics; epidemiological methods
James D. Ralston
Affiliate Professor
206-287-2076
Research Interests: Electronic tools to improve health
Maggie Ramirez
Endowed Professorship and Associate Director and Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Technology-enabled interventions to reduce disparities in health status and health care delivery
Ian A. Randall
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Delivery system innovations; value-based payment; total cost of care; social determinants of health
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
Affiliate Associate Professor
Research Interests: Clinical and public health informatics; disaster medicine; outbreak detection and disease surveillance; “immune system for the planet” out of the Stimson Center in DC; neutrophilic granulocyte biomimicry; nano electro-chemistry; water purification; desalination; climate adaptation strategies on remote Pacific atolls, in Sub-Antarctic Chile, and within the Science and Technology Trust in San Juan, Puerto Rico (US Office of Naval Research); Indigenous Mayan health issues in the Yucatan Biosphere Reserve; water purification in zones of active conflict (Ukraine).
Gayle Reiber
Professor Emeritus
206-764-2089
Research Interests: Diabetes mellitus; diabetic foot; foot ulcer; amputation; foot care; footwear; epidemiology; health services research
Jim Reid
Clinical Instructor
206-225-4109
Research Interests: Negotiation and mediation; leadership; organizational development
David Reyes
Adjunct Associate Professor
253-692-5676
Research Interests: Social determinants of health; root causes of inequity and health disparities; building community capacity for problem solving and population health systems improvement; community-based participatory approaches; underserved and underrepresented populations
Julie Richards
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-287-2100
Research Interests: Suicide prevention; firearm injury prevention; mental health and substance use; integrated mental health in primary care
Laura P. Richardson
Adjunct Professor
206-987-2028
laura.richardson@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Adolescent health; depression; anxiety; suicidal behavior; transition to adulthood; health services delivery in primary care
Mary Richardson
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
management, quality improvement, disability, chronic conditions
Dori E Rosenberg
Affiliate Associate Professor
206-287-2532
Research Interests: Health promotion among older adults; physical activity and sedentary behavior intervention and measurement; built environment relationships with health behaviors and health outcomes; improving health behaviors among people with chronic conditions and mobility disability
Sarah A Ross-Viles
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Health equity; tobacco prevention and control; health behavior and health promotion
Sierra Rotakhina
Clinical Instructor
559-718-3806
Research Interests: Health equity; bias and disparities in the justice and carceral systems; social and structural determinants of health; standardization of statewide collection of disaggregated data across sectors
Richard Rubin
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-331-2603
Research Interests: Health information exchange; administrative simplification; health policy and strategy
Sean Rundell
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal pain conditions and chronic pain; low back pain and chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions in older adults
Amber K Sabbatini
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Evaluation of physician resource utilization, appropriateness of hospital admissions, and the quality and cost of emergency care; using administrative data in evaluation processes
Deepak Sadagopan
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health economics; high-performance networks; risk contracting and performance; accountable care organizations; health equity; healthcare data science and engineering; consumer/patient experience; clinical quality outcomes; quality of life; data interoperability; causal analytics; cross-enterprise healthcare delivery
Nicole Sadow-Hasenberg
Lecturer
206-263-2417
Research Interests: Public health communications; health promotion/chronic illness prevention; health equity; child welfare and well-being; diversity, equity, and inclusion
Brian E Saelens
Adjunct Professor
206-884-8247
brian.saelens@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Adolescent heath; obesity
Sallie Thieme Sanford
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-685-4245
Research Interests: Professor Sanford’s research interests focus on Affordable Care Act implementation, healthcare delivery systems, health administration law, Medicare and Medicaid, comparative healthcare law, public health law, and medical and administrative ethics.
Maureen Sarewitz
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Leadership; business management; innovation; sustainability; global health and technology
Stephanie J Schulz
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: organizational leadership, team development, talent management, social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging, diabetes treatment and management
Jeff Sconyers
Teaching Professor Emeritus
206-221-8020
Research Interests: Emergency preparedness and response; institutional conflicts of interest
Cheryl M. Scott
Clinical Professor
206-963-6354
cheryl@mcclintockscottgroup.com
Research Interests: Leadership effectiveness in complex health organizations
Jeanne M Sears
Research Professor – Retired
206-543-1360
Research Interests: Safe Workplaces, Sustainable Communities, Health Equity, Occupational Health
Neil Jay Sehgal
Endowed Professorship and Associate Professor
Research Interests: COVID-19, health disparities, the healthcare workforce, health care outcomes, the delivery system, and health information technology.
Rajiv Sethi
Clinical Professor
206-625-7373
Research Interests: Spine outcomes research; cost-efficacy analysis; international spine care
Parth Shah
Affiliate Assistant Professor
206-667-6120
Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation science; cancer prevention and control; HPV vaccine delivery; vaccine communication; colorectal cancer screening; behavioral science and intervention research
Genya N Shimkin
Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor
206-616-7889
Research Interests: LGBTQ health; adolescent health; healthcare access; harm reduction; health justice; anti-oppression approaches to health promotion
David Shoultz
206-395-8752
Research Interests: I am interested in global health product discovery, development, and delivery. I am also interested in innovative finance for global health product development. I am eager to collaborate with other faculty members and am available to work with master’s and doctoral students who share my interests and commitment to global health product development.
Manahil Siddiqi
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Global women, adolescent, and child health and rights; population and reproductive health; war, conflict and health
Judy Simon
Clinical Instructor
206-598-5614
Research Interests: Women’s health; eating disorders; fertility
vivienne souter
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-375-0234
Research Interests: Quality improvement in health care, obstetrics, women’s health, genetics, prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound
Michael Spencer
Adjunct Professor
206-221-7873
Research Interests: Health and wellness among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders; health promotion through indigenous practices and values
Carolin Spice
Associate Teaching Professor
206-543-7951
Research Interests: Electronic health records, social determinants of health, learning health systems, healthcare quality and analytics
Clarence Spigner
Professor
206-616-2948
Research Interests: Tobacco-related behavior; racism as a stressor; social construction of ‘race’ vis-a-vis biological reductionism in health research and behavior; knowledge and opinions about organ donation among ethnic groups; program evaluation; popular culture
Michael Stanfill
Clinical Assistant Professor
253-234-5439
Research Interests: Health needs for inmates; efficacy review of interventions across time; psychiatric illness; substance abuse; recidivism and health-related variables related to incarceration; barriers to clinical care; psychological assessment and risk assessment; application of epidemiology and biostatistics to criminal justice arenas; veterans and active duty military psychiatric issues
Marc F Stern
Affiliate Assistant Professor
360-701-6520
Research Interests: Correctional health care
Dennis Stillman
Associate Teaching Professor
206-221-7234
Research Interests: Health care financing; project management
Jennifer Stuber
Adjunct Associate Professor
206-604-7740
Research Interests: Behavioral health policy and systems change in crisis systems, healthcare and schools; suicide prevention with a particular focus on youth
Sean D Sullivan
Professor
206-685-8153
Research Interests: Technology assessment; medical decision making; economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, particularly in the areas of respiratory disorders, organ transplantation, HIV/AIDS, mental health and clinical decision making
Akhenaten Tankwanchi
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-537-5266
Research Interests: Vaccine hesitancy; migration and health; health disparities; health workforce
Vicky M Taylor
Research Professor Emeritus
206-667-5114
Research Interests: Special populations; health disparities; cancer control; secondary prevention
Luzmarina Tejada
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: The outcomes of wrap around services for vulnerable populations and the incorporation of advance care planning in the management of chronic illness.
David B Thomas
206-667-5133
Research Interests: Breast and gynecologic cancer, epidemiology and prevention
Colleen Ellen Thomasgard
Professor Emeritus
206-685-9852
Research Interests: Design, delivery and evaluation of preventive interventions with young children and families; social bases of language; cognitive and emotional development in normal and at-risk children; language and literacy development; parents’ health literacy
Beti Thompson
Professor Emeritus
206-667-4673
Research Interests: Community-based research; dietary change; cancer prevention; health disparities
Jack Thompson
Principal Lecturer Emeritus
206-616-1061
Research Interests: Public health organization and financing; workforce development; integration of health and health care services
Logan Trenaman
Endowed Professorship and Assistant Professor
Research Interests: patient-oriented research; patient preferences; shared decision-making; value-based payment; patient-reported outcomes
Vivien D. Tsu
206-683-2899
Research Interests: Obstetric complications, newborn health, immunization, cervical and breast cancer
Anne M Turner
Professor
206-221-3615
Research Interests: Public health workforce information workflow; public health digital libraries; natural language processing to access to public health gray literature
Nicholas Turse
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: US military activity in Africa; effects of war on public health; history and legacy of the Vietnam War; investigative journalism and crisis reporting
Gaurai Uddanwadiker
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Healthcare Operations and Strategy, Leadership Development
Joseph Michael Unger
Affiliate Associate Professor
206-667-2860
Research Interests: Cancer care delivery research; clinical trials; income disparities; clinical trial impact and generalizability; diffusion of new treatments
Jurgen Unutzer
Adjunct Professor
206-543-3752
Research Interests: Improving the care of adults with common mental disorders such as depression and comorbid medical disorders
Nicole Urban
Research Professor Emeritus
206-667-6774
Research Interests: Breast/ovarian cancer screening; cost-effectiveness analysis
Richard Van De Plasch
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Telehealth: efficacy and efficiency; clinical and health informatics: efforts and outcomes in right-sizing budgets in a capitated health care system
Jenna van Draanen
Assistant Professor
778-751-9136
Research Interests: Social determinants of mental health; substance use disorders; community-based research; inclusion of people with lived experience; design and evaluation of programs and policies; early poverty and childhood adversity
Monica S. Vavilala
Adjunct Professor
206-744-9430
Research Interests: Guideline adherence; injury care and outcomes; traumatic brain injury
Sarah Veele
Clinical Assistant Professor
360-688-3465
Research Interests: Applied and translational research; populations furthest from opportunity; child welfare and juvenile justice reform; gender equity; university and government collaboration
Edward H Wagner
Professor Emeritus
206-287-2877
Research Interests: Health services research; Health promotion and disease prevention
Edward A Walker
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Integration of mental health into primary and specialty care medical settings
Alix Warren
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Health equity; access to healthcare; sexual health; health education; qualitative research and evaluation
Tyler Watson
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: foundations of public health, environmental health, climate change and health, food systems, food security, nutrition, adolescent health, behavioral health, mental health, substance use
Marcia Weaver
Adjunct Research Professor
206-897-2800
Research Interests: Cost analysis; HIV/AIDS programs
Bryan Weiner
Professor
206-221-7882
Research Interests: Adoption, implementation, sustainment of innovations and evidence-based practices; management, operation, and sustainability of inter-organizational relationships; total quality management; patient safety
Ginny Weir
Clinical Instructor
206-204-7377
Research Interests: Delivery system redesign; health policy; care pathways
William E. Welton
Principal Lecturer Emeritus
Research Interests: Organization of health care markets and relationship to overall per capita costs
Karen J. Wernli
Affiliate Professor
206-287-2934
Research Interests: Comparative effectiveness research; cancer screening and diagnostic, preventive services, methodology
Edward West
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health disparities in minority communities
Kate West
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Qualitative research methods; community-based participatory research; researcher trustworthiness; bioethics; ethical-legal-social implications of genetics and implementation of new technologies; anti-racist pedagogy
Ken White
Clinical Assistant Professor
206-932-1718
Research Interests: International health status assessment; patient satisfaction
Emily Williams
Professor
206-685-5048
Research Interests: Addictions, Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Health Care, HIV, PrEP, Implementation Science, Learning Health Systems, Evidence-based care for substance use and substance use disorders, Critical Race Theory, Mixed Methods
Katie Wilson
Clinical Instructor
206-781-7204
Research Interests: Public transit; housing policy; tax policy; income inequality; urban issues
Edwin S. Wong
Research Associate Professor and Associate Director
206-227-4703
Research Interests: Health economics; applied microeconometrics; health care quality; health policy analysis; health care systems; health care delivery; primary care; implementation science; Veterans health care; Medicare; Medicaid; comparative effectiveness research; cost-effectiveness analysis
Suzanne J. Wood
Affiliate Associate Professor
206-221-4571
Research Interests: International business and strategy; strategic management; management theory and practice; action research; qualitative analyses; program and process evaluation
Rachel Wortman Morris
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Process improvement; quality; culture
Mei Po Yip
Clinical Instructor
425-444-6986
Research Interests: Health education; minority health; health literacy; preventive care
Sahar Zangeneh
Research Interests: Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
Health Equity
Steven Zeliadt
Research Professor
206-277-4175
Research Interests: Decision-making and quality of life in prostate cancer treatment; cancer screening; costs of health care interventions; evaluation of informed decision making strategies; comparative effectiveness using large databases; quality of life assessment among cancer survivors; decision modeling; assessment of health care costs
Chuan Zhou
Adjunct Research Professor
206-884-1028
chuan.zhou@seattlechildrens.org
Research Interests: Health services research; causal inference; missing data; Bayesian inference
Brenda Zierler
Adjunct Professor
206-616-1910
Research Interests: Team science, collaborative practice, leadership, and cardiovascular disease (specifically deep vein thrombosis)