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Amy Hagopian
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Global Health (primary appt.)

Amy Hagopian teaches community development, evaluation, policy and international health. She also conducts research on international health workforce issues, especially the area of health worker migration from low-income countries to wealthy countries.

She serves on the Department of Global Health's MPH curriculum and admissions committees, and on the admissions committee of the Community Oriented Public Health Practice. She also serves as organizer of the University of Basra sister university project (since 2005).

Before entering the global health arena, Hagopian worked for 15 years in the area of rural health and community development, traveling the five-state region served by the University of Washington School of Medicine. She focused on strengthening and expanding rural health systems, as she worked with administrators, boards and communities in the settings of hospitals, clinics and public health departments.

Hagopian is also active in her professional association, the American Public Health Association, where she serves as secretary to the International Health Section. She is also active in her own local community, where she serves as a board member of the Garfield High School PTSA and as a board member of College Access Now, which works to assist first-generation students gain admission to college. She also works to eliminate military recruitment in high schools.

Research Interests:
International health workforce issues, the effects of war on global health

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Contact Information

email:   hagopian@u.washington.edu

address:
Health Alliance International
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 350
Seattle, WA 98105

voice:   206-543-8382
fax:   206-685-4184

Education

PhD   University of Washington, 2003   (Health Services)
MHA   University of Washington, 1983   (Health Administration)

Teaching   (Department of Health Services Courses)

  • HSERV 591
    COPHP PBL Core Curriculum - Year 2
  • HSERV 592
    Community Oriented Public Health Practice Seminar

Dissertation, Thesis & Capstone Committees (recent HSERV graduates)

2012
Chair, thesis committee for Sahar Banijamali
What causes home care workers to leave their jobs in Washington State? Predictors of turnover and job satisfaction

2012
Chair, capstone for Alarmel Krishnaswamy
The College-going Culture Index: Developing an instrument to evaluate school-level factors that influence postsecondary enrollment

2011
Chair, capstone for Katherine Hess
Evaluating College Access Now: A study of the effectiveness of a community-based effort to motivate and assist low-income, first-generation Seattle high schools students to go to college

2009
Chair, thesis committee for Jeffrey Lane
A survey of heath facility accreditation and quality improvement programs in East Africa

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

Health Alliance International 8 (Moz. Health Comm.)
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    10/1/2012 - 9/30/2013

Mozambique Health Committee 7
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    10/1/2011 - 9/30/2012

Health Promotion Research Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Harris           Dates:    9/30/2011 - 9/29/2012

Establishing and Strengthening CoE’s as Regional Health System Hubs
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Barnhart           Dates:    9/1/2011 - 8/30/2016

Strengthening Graduate-Level Public Health Education in the Government of the Republic of Namibia Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Downer           Dates:    4/1/2011 - 3/31/2012

2011 Iraq Mortality Metrics Study
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
PI:   Hagopian           Dates:    3/14/2011 - 12/31/2020

2011 Iraq Mortality Metrics Study Phase 2
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
PI:   Hagopian           Dates:    1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011

2011 Iraq Mortality Metrics Study Phase 3
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
PI:   Hagopian           Dates:    1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011

2011 Iraq Mortality Metrics Study Phase 3
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
PI:   Hagopian           Dates:    1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011

Mozambique Health Committee 6
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    12/1/2010 - 9/30/2011

Mozambique Health Committee 6
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    10/1/2010 - 11/30/2010

Health Promotion Research Center - Special Interest Projects
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Harris           Dates:    9/30/2010 - 9/29/2014

Education and Research Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Seixas           Dates:    7/1/2010 - 6/30/2015

Strengthening Graduate-Level Public Health Education in the Government of the Republic of Namibia Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Downer           Dates:    4/10/2010 - 3/31/2011

Mozambique Health Committee 5
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    10/1/2009 - 7/31/2010

Mozambique Health Committee 5
Health Alliance International (HAI)
PI:   Holmes           Dates:    10/1/2009 - 9/30/2010

Strengthening Graduate-Level Public Health Education in the Government of the Republic of Namibia Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Downer           Dates:    1/1/2009 - 12/31/2013

Projects

Health Alliance International

Senior Health Workforce Planning & Policy Advisor
http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw

Department of Global Health
Education and Curriculum Office, Chair of the International Health Program curriculum committee.
http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/

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