Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
  -  Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
School of Nursing
Department of Psychosocial & Community Health
University of Washington
Box:  357263
Seattle, WA 98195
(voice)  206-543-3116     (fax)  206-543-8566
bobbieb@u.washington.edu
Health Policy, Leadership, Systems Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    09/2004 - 08/2008
The major goals of this project are to ensure that the public health workforce has the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, characterize, control and develop prevention programs that will be effective in safeguarding the residents and the six state region from current and emerging threats to their health, including the threats of bioterrorist attack.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    09/2006 - 08/2007
The NWCPHPP will provide a series of trainings in performance management and leadership to the public health nursing workforce in the state of Washington and the NW region.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Stergachis           Dates:    09/2003 - 02/2007
The University of Washington proposes to establish a multi-disciplinary curriculum that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize indications of a terrorist event or other public health emergency and meet the acute health needs of victims of such an event.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PI:   Berkowitz           Dates:    07/1996 - 11/2006
The primary goal of this project is to transform and strengthen the public health system in the United States so that it is more effective, more community based and more collaborative in protecting and improving that public's health.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Hart           Dates:    09/1998 - 09/2006
Center to support research and analysis of issues regarding the impact of federal initiatives aimed at the public health workforce.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Berkowitz           Dates:    10/2004 - 09/2005
The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of mobilizing existing academic and private sector resources to support disease detection investments in the critical region of Asia and the Pacific Rim and part of the Global Disease Detection Initiative.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Ensign           Dates:    07/2001 - 06/2005
The purpose of the proposed study is to monitor the quality of health care for homeless youth using narrative interviews, focus groups, and national expert consensus..