Faculty
Health Services
Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
- Department of Global Health, (MPH Program)
Amy Hagopian teaches community development, evaluation, policy and international health. She also conducts research on international health workforce issues and provides services to sub-Saharan African Ministries of Health on workforce issues, such as organizing licensure registries, revising policies to promote workforce retention, and strengthening pre- and post-service educational programs. Hagopian is contracted by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Global HIV/AIDS Program to work in Uganda primarily, where she works with the Ministry of Health’s Health Workforce Advisory Board. Her particular research interest is in 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).
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 on the governing council as a representative of 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. She works to eliminate military recruitment in high schools.
Box: 354982
Seattle, WA 98195-4982
(voice) 206-616-4989 (fax) 206-616-4768
hagopian@u.washington.edu
- HSERV 591, Community Oriented Public Health Practice (program evaluation and health policy)
- HSERV 572
Community Development for Health - HSERV 573
Community Development for Health Seminar - HSERV 592
International Health Thesis Workshop
http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw
http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/
PI: Hagopian Dates: 07/2005 - 07/2008
The goal of this project is to assess the available evidence for an epidemic of childhood cancers and serious congenital birth defects in Basra, Iraq and establishing and formal sister university link between Basra University and the University of Washington.
PI: Khagram Dates: 01/2006 - 05/2008
The goal of this project is to identify approaches for policy and program action and develop a template for empowering public health networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
PI: Katz Dates: 07/2006 - 08/2007
The goal of this project is to develop a pipeline for future leaders in global health, to the professional development and support to emerging, mid-career and senior global health fellows, and related training opportunities to promote leadership development among global health professionals.
