Category: Faculty
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HSPop faculty, staff, students receive SPH Awards of Excellence
The UW School of Public Health recognized dozens of students, staff, and faculty at its annual Excellence Awards celebration, including six individuals from our department. The Excellence Awards celebrate members of the school’s community for their dedication, service, and many contributions to public health.
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Faculty member Stephen Bezruchka publishes book about how inequality in the U.S. leads to poor health
Associate teaching professor emeritus examines the contradiction of U.S. spending on health care vs life expectancy in his new book, “Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19’s Health Lessons for the World.”
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New HSPop faculty, Michelle Johnson-Jennings and Derek Jennings
We are excited to introduce two new faculty members — Michelle Johnson-Jennings and Derek Jennings. They came to UW this summer from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, in the Saskatchewan province of Canada.
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Faculty member Kemi Doll examines endometrial cancer screening disparities
Dr. Kemi Doll, an adjunct associate professor in the department, is a the lead author on a publication about how signs of endometrial cancer in Black women are frequently missed by transvaginal ultrasounds, a current non-invasive screening tool.
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Faculty member Christoph Lee receives top yale med alumni award
Congratulations to adjunct professor Christoph Lee, who was just awarded the 2020 Yale School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Service Award, Yale Med’s highest alumni honor.
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Faculty member Amy Hagopian amplifies police violence as threat to public health
This project is a natural extension of Hagopian’s broader work, which focuses on social justice problems that undermine public health, such as war, homelessness, income inequality, racism, and incarceration. Hagopian is also an HSPop alum.
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CHIPS welcomes a new associate director
The Center for Health Innovation and Policy Science welcomes Layla Booshehri as the associate director, a the newly created position. Before being selected as the associate director, she served as an investigator with the center.
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Faculty member Ruth Etzioni co-authors data science textbook
Ruth Etzioni co-authored a new textbook, “Statistics for Health Data Science: An Organic Approach.” The textbook brings together key statistical ideas that are foundational for contemporary investigators in health services, health outcomes, and health policy.