Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
  -  Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
  -  Department of Global Health, (MPH Program)

Virginia Gonzales is a Senior Consultant for International Projects for TVT Synergy at the UW Center for Health Education and Research. This 5 year USAID funded project focuses on HIV/AIDS control activities in developing countries. Professor Gonzales is also the Director of Education for a Fogarty Funded project with a mandate to train health providers on applications of computer technologies and information science in public health. She served as Co-Principal Investigator on a project that focused on STD/HIV/AIDS in high-risk women. She also served as the Health Education Specialist for the WHO Global Program on AIDS in South East Asia.

Center for Health Education and Research
Cabrini Towers
901 Boren, Suite 1100
Box:  359932
Seattle, WA 98104
gonza@u.washington.edu
Training of trainers in STD/HIV/AIDS CounselingTraining of trainers in STD/HIV/AIDS prevention Womens health, national and international STD/HIV/AIDS prevention Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    04/2006 - 03/2011
IAETC will participate in a collaboration with UCSF to improve the care of people living with HIV/AIDS in heavily affected, low-resource areas outside the US by increasing the capacity for training of HIV/AIDS health care providers.

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
PI:   Downer           Dates:    04/2005 - 03/2007
The primary goal of this project is to establish the Guyana Training Coordination Centre which will complement the HIV-training activities of other in-country partners by functioning as a coordinating unit.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    04/2002 - 03/2006
The goal of this project is to implement a coordinated plan that will lead to long lasting improvements in the quality, composition, and scope of care given to people living with HIV/AIDS in designated priority countries around the globe.

USAID
PI:   Downer           Dates:    09/2003 - 09/2004
The purpose of this project is to assist USAID regional office for the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network by providing technical assistance for the development of activities.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    10/1996 - 09/2002
Promotes the prevention, surveillance and control of emerging infections in Asia and the Pacific.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Gonzales           Dates:    09/1998 - 09/1999
Improved prenatal care and practices for Spanish-speaking women.

Van Devanter, N., Gonzales, V., Merzel, C., Fox, Margaretta., Parikh, N., Celantano, D., Greenberg, J. Effectiveness of an STD/HIV Behavior Change Intervention on Women's Use of the Female Condom. Accepted by AJPH for publication 2001.

Karras BT., Kimball AM., Gonzales V., Pautler NA., Alarcon J., Garcia P., Fuller SS. MedInfo2001 of the international medical informatics association (www.medinfo2001.org) 2001.

Smith, S., Gonzales, V. All Plans Need CLAMS: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Material for diverse Populations. HeathPlan. Sept/Oct. 2000.

Gonzales, V., Washienko, KW., Chapman, LI., Arredondo, EM., Huckeba, HJ., Krone, MR., Downer, A. Sexual and Drug Risk Factors for HIV and STDs: A Comparison of Women With and Without Bisexual Experiences. American Journal of Public Health. December, 1999.

Greenberg, J., Lifshay, J., VanDevanter, N., Gonzales, V., Celentano, D. Journal of Women's Health. Preventing HIV Infection: The Effects of Community Linkages, Time, and Money on Recruiting and Retaining Women in Intervention Groups. Journal of Women's Health, 7:587-596, 1998.