Faculty Profiles
Wendy Baesler
"Everybody who works in public health must interact with accounting and finance, whether that be in preparing a budget, writing a grant, being audited by Medicaid, or myriad other situations," she says. She adds that although public health professionals can usually rely on others with more financial expertise to create budgets and do the accounting, "They must have an understanding of how those numbers were created and how they are to be interpreted. This understanding will help ensure that public health goals are met in the most cost-effective ways and that the health organization is making wise financial decisions." To that end, she prepares students for real-world situations they will, or are already, facing. Read more . . .
Marcia Williams
These days, besides teaching at the University of Washington's Maternal and Child Health Leadership Training Program and the Extended MPH Degree Program, and seeing babies in the High Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic at the Center for Human Development and Disability (CHDD), Marcia Williams is working in Tanzania, her first foray into global public health. She is part of a team gathered together by the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, a nonprofit health research organization located in Seattle, Washington, to develop a program to prevent malaria in pregnant women. Marcia's role is to ensure that the drugs given to pregnant women to prevent malaria do not contribute to any adverse outcomes in their babies. Read more . . .
Noel Weiss
When Dr. Noel Weiss arrived in Seattle in 1973 to join the faculties of the University of Washington (UW) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he was charged with establishing a population-based cancer registry in western Washington. Dr. Weiss used data from that and other US registries to document an increased incidence of endometrial cancer. Subsequent studies that he conducted - ones that interviewed women with and without endometrial cancer - helped to implicate the increased use of estrogen preparations by postmenopausal women as the explanation for the change in incidence. Read more . . .
