Bekemeier_Betty - Department of Health Services. Graduate Degree (PhD, MPH, MS, MHA) and Certificate Programs at the University of Washington.

I have a passion for public health as it is practiced in the community setting. Improving the health of whole communities can only happen through working effectively together across systems, agencies, and disciplines and believing that everyone participates in the work of public health.

Dept. of Health Services
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Elizabeth (Betty) R. Bekemeier

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health (primary appt.)

Betty Bekemeier is a public health systems researcher - examining effective strategies for local and state public health systems to most effectively improve population health and eliminate disparities. She served as Deputy Director of the Turning Point National Program Office where her specialty was in public health practice system development. Before coming to the UW, her career focused on public health practice at the local level, including: public health nursing, clinical and field management, epidemiology, community assessment, maternal child health, and administration

Research Interests:
Effective public health practice system development; public health financing; management of public health practice; public health nursing leadership; public health workforce development issues

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Contact Information

email: bettybek@u.washington.edu

address:
Department of Psychosocial and Community Health
1959 NE Pacific St.,
Seattle, WA 98195

campus box: 357263
voice: 206-616-8411
fax: 206-685-9551

Education

PhD   University of Washington, 2007 (Nursing)
MSN   Johns Hopkins University, 1994 (Public Health Nursing Leadership and Management)
MPH   Johns Hopkins University, 1994 (Program Evaluation)
BSN   Pacific Lutheran University, 1984 (Nursing)

Dissertation, Thesis & Capstone Committees (recent HSERV graduates)

2012

Member, thesis committee for Carolina Amador

Disparities in timing of gestational diabetes screening in Hispanic and Caucasian, non-Hispanic women

2009

Chair, thesis committee for Angela Mathis

Implementation of ACIP/HICPAC annual influenza program recommendations in Pacific Northwest health care facilities

External Funding (sampling of recent awards from UW SAGE data)

Public Health Nursing Education in Disaster and Environmental Health Nursing

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
PI: Beaton Dates: 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2010

Projects

Turning Point--Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health

Turning Point is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in which 21 states across the country were funded to develop innovative and effective change in public health infrastructure in their states through collaborations with unique partnerships. These partnerships built public health capacity throughout the public health system at both the state and local level.
www.turningpointprogram.org/

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