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Alum Rachel Ginocchio teaches inclusive human reproduction
Rachel Ginocchio, a Health Services Master of Public Health (MPH) alum, is helping youth educators provide inclusive sexual education about all the ways that humans reproduce and create family.
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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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Alum M. Courtney Hughes addresses racial disparities in hospice care use
White patients with terminal illness utilize hospice services about 30% more than their counterparts of color. This inequity is concerning, because hospice care has been shown to improve the patient’s quality of life and the experience for family members.
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Student Stefani Florez-Acevedo promotes Latinx representation in public health
Florez-Acevedo’s practicum focused on designing and implementing a community needs assessment to understand the needs of and challenges facing the South King County Latinx community, both before and during the pandemic.
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Student Tara Ogilvie advances culturally-relevant education for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families
Tara Ogilvie assessed the needs of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families related to early learning and literacy in order to inform the development of a culturally-relevant curriculum for the Ina Maka Family Program with the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.
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Student David Thomas promotes health care access via Amazon Neighborhood Health Centers
David Thomas, a second-year Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Master of Public Health (COPHP MPH) student, work as a program manager at the new Amazon Neighborhood Health Centers.
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Alum Marjorie Wilson promotes harm reduction for injection drug use
Wilson is the co-founder and executive director of the Idaho Harm Reduction Project, a non-profit dedicated to using advocacy, harm reduction, and evidence-based programming to promote health and safety for all Idaho residents impacted by drug use.
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Study finds vaccine distrust within incarcerated populations
In a study led by Marc Stern, a HSPop ffiliate assistant professor, fewer than half of inmates in jails and prisons surveyed said they would accept a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Alum Donn Colby receives funding to study COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among military personnel
Donn Colby secured a $400,000 U.S. Defense Health Agency Grant to fund a study on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among military personnel and dependents at Joint Base Lewis McChord, southwest of Tacoma, Washington.
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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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