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Amy Hagopian

Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

206-616-4989 | hagopian@uw.edu

Office H-690E, Health Sciences Building
Box 357660
1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195

Research Interests

International health workforce issues, the effects of war on global health

Bio

Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD, served for many years as program director of the Community Oriented Public Health Practice program where she teaches a core health policy course. She also teaches a 4-credit MPH course, Public Health Planning, Advocacy and Leadership skills, a project-based public health skill-building course.

Hagopian’s wide-ranging interests are unified by the idea that the maldistribution of power undermines health. She has dedicated much of her professional and personal life to opposing war and promoting peace. She’s also researched the migration of health workers from poor countries to rich ones, and works on homelessness and incarceration as health issues.

She co-teaches a course with Evan Kanter, MD, PhD, “War and Health.” She led a team to estimate mortality associated with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and has conducted other research on the effects of war on health. She is active in the American Public Health Association’s international health section and peace caucus, and is the 2018 recipient of the APHA’s Vic Sidel and Barry Levy Peace Award. She serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health, and on the Nuclear Weapons Task force of the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Education

PhD Health Services, University of Washington, 2003
MHA Health Administration, University of Washington, 1983

Academic Programs and Affiliations

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Global Public Health Workers and Academics Must Step Up Response to War.
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Hagopian A, Jabbour S. Global Public Health Workers and Academics Must Step Up Response to War. Am J Public Health. 2022 Jun;112(6):814. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306870.
Association Between Subnational Vaccine Coverage, Migration, and Incident Cases of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella in Iraq, 2001-2016.
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Comfort H, Lafta RK, Flaxman AD, Hagopian A, Duber HC. Association Between Subnational Vaccine Coverage, Migration, and Incident Cases of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella in Iraq, 2001-2016. Front Public Health. 2022 Jan 20;9:689458. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.68
Conflict-related intentional injuries in Baghdad, Iraq, 2003-2014: A modeling study and proposed method for calculating burden of injury in conflict.
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Jensen GW, Lafta R, Burnham G, Hagopian A, Simon N, Flaxman AD. Conflict-related intentional injuries in Baghdad, Iraq, 2003-2014: A modeling study and proposed method for calculating burden of injury in conflict. PLoS Med. 2021 Aug 5;18(8):e1003673. doi:
Advocates Make a Difference in Duration of Homelessness and Quality of Life.
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Babayan M, Futrell M, Stover B, Hagopian A. Advocates Make a Difference in Duration of Homelessness and Quality of Life. Soc Work Public Health. 2021 Apr 3;36(3):354-366. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2021.1897055. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”) Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the
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Tankwanchi AS, Hagopian A, Vermund SH. African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”) Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional St
Solidarity and disparity: Declining labor union density and changing racial and educational mortality inequities in the United States.
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Eisenberg-Guyot J, Mooney SJ, Hagopian A, Barrington WE, Hajat A. Solidarity and disparity: Declining labor union density and changing racial and educational mortality inequities in the United States. Am J Ind Med. 2020 Mar;63(3):218-231. doi: 10.1002/aji
Presence of Any Medical Debt Associated With Two Additional Years of Homelessness in a Seattle Sample.
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Bielenberg JE, Futrell M, Stover B, Hagopian A. Presence of Any Medical Debt Associated With Two Additional Years of Homelessness in a Seattle Sample. Inquiry. 2020 Jan-Dec;57:46958020923535. doi: 10.1177/0046958020923535.
The epidemiology of 32 selected communicable diseases in Iraq, 2004-2016.
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Zhao Y, Lafta R, Hagopian A, Flaxman AD. The epidemiology of 32 selected communicable diseases in Iraq, 2004-2016. Int J Infect Dis. 2019 Dec;89:102-109. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.09.018. Epub 2019 Sep 24.
International migration of health labour: monitoring the two-way flow of physicians in South Africa.
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Tankwanchi AS, Hagopian A, Vermund SH. International migration of health labour: monitoring the two-way flow of physicians in South Africa. BMJ Glob Health. 2019 Sep 11;4(5):e001566. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001566. eCollection 2019.
Militaries and global health.
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Barker K, Hagopian A, Pfeiffer J. Militaries and global health. Lancet. 2019 Sep 14;394(10202):917. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31342-X.

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