Research Partners
The Health Services Research Training Program faculty are involved in numerous studies conducted within the following UW patient care facilities: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children's, UW Physicians Network (11 affiliated outpatient clinics), and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (a collaboration among UW Medical Center, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). In addition, program faculty may also collaborate with the other research centers and research partners listed below:
Research Centers:
- Center for Cost and Outcomes Research
- Center for Disability Policy and Research
- Child Health Institute
- Community Campus Partnerships for Health
- End of Life Care Research Program
- Harborview Injury Research Prevention Center
- Health Promotion Research Center
- Institute for Public Health Genetics
- Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
- Seattle Quality of Life Group
- Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
- Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
- Center for AIDS and STD
- Occupational Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Program
- Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program
- Rural Health Research Center
The Health Services Research Training Program provides the opportunity for trainees to collaborate with regional research partner physician and scientist mentors. The trainee, site mentor(s) and UW mentor(s) form a team that guides the research process. The research partner's front-line health care experience combined with well established faculty/research partner relationships (some lasting more than 25 years) ensure that the trainee chooses practical, cutting-edge projects. In turn, the research partners benefit from the expertise of the trainees and their UW mentors.
Trainees interact with the research partners in three ways. First, to broaden their practical experience, trainees are encourged to take a practicum or independent research project at a partner institution. Second, trainees may conduct a research project working with a site mentor analyzing data, or act as a full-time researcher interacting as a colleague on site. Third, some research partners can provide entree into communities for trainees to conduct community-level studies.
Research Partners:
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Group Health Research Institute
- Public Health of Seattle-King County
- Veterans Affairs of Puget Sound
- Washington State Department of Health
- Department of Social and Health Services
- Washington State Health Care Authority
- Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
- Bastyr University
- Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)
- Qualis Health
- Premera Blue Cross
- Virginia Mason Medical Center