Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Maternal and Child Health Track, (MPH program)
  -  PhD program in Health Services

Colleen Huebner's research and teaching expertise integrate three overlapping areas in public health and child development. They are: (1) the development of language and emotion regulation and the constitutional and social factors that can influence these processes; (2) parent-child interaction and family functioning during first five years of life; and (3) the design and evaluation of appropriate interventions for children and families at-risk for poor outcomes due to experiential or environmental factors including poverty, low parental education or maternal mental illness. Dr. Huebner is an affiliate member of the faculty of the School of Dentistry and of the School of Nursing where she is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Infant Mental Health and Development. In 2003, Dr. Huebner was appointed by President Bush to the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. She is also a Research Associate with the Center for Human Development & Disability and the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences.

(office)  F-351B, Health Sciences Building
University of Washington
1959 NE Pacific Street
Box:  357230
Seattle, WA 98195
(voice)  206-685-9852     (fax)  206-616-8370
colleenh@u.washington.edu
(staff contact):  Carmen Velasquez
(voice)  206-543-0312     (fax)  206-616-8370
carmv@u.washington.edu
Application of developmental and prevention science to public health practice.

• HSERV 541
  Topics in Maternal and Child Health I
• HSERV 541   (Extended MPH Program)
  Topics in Maternal and Child Health I
• HSERV 592
  Maternal and Child Health Research Seminar

Design, delivery and evaluation of preventive interventions with young children and families; social bases of language, cognitive and emotional development in normal and at-risk children. Language and literacy development; parents' health literacy.

• Community of Science profile

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Leggott           Dates:    07/2002 - 06/2012
The purpose of the University of Washington Center for Leadership Education in Pediatric Dentistry is to improve the health of maternal and child populations through training leaders in pediatric dentistry.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Milgrom           Dates:    09/2005 - 08/2008
Using a analysis of Medicaid claims, this research will assess the progress of dentists towards a "paradigm shift" in adopting a medical model of care where oral diseases are prevented in contrast to the traditional surgical treatment model.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    08/2006 - 07/2008
The purpose is to develop and pilot test an oral health education intervention for low-income rural caregivers of infants and pre-school age children with the goal of supporting parents and other primary caregivers to develop a habit of early and frequent adult-child tooth-brushing. Methods reflect a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Leggott           Dates:    09/2005 - 09/2007
The purpose of this training program is to improve the health of maternal and child populations including infants and children, and mothers and fathers through training leaders in pediatric dentistry.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Berg           Dates:    07/2004 - 06/2007
The purpose of the grant is to expand the accredited University of Washington pediatric dentistry residency program by developing a sustainable community-based pediatric dentistry residence track in a migrant health center in Yakima County, WA, that can be adapted elsewhere.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    07/2000 - 06/2005
The MCH Training program exists to educate future leaders and assist current leaders to solve MCH problems, conduct applied research, and collaborate with community and government partners to improve the health and well being of women, infants, children, and adolescents.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Swanson           Dates:    07/2004 - 06/2005
The goal of this project is to organize and provide a Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology conference in April, 2005 for public health practitioners working in state, tribal, and local agencies in the 15 western states of the U.S.

Nesholm Family Foundation
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    04/2004 - 03/2005
The project aims to support mental health and physical health providers dedicated to the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of emotional well-being in children by providing related information via the web.

Royalty Research Foundation
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    01/2004 - 01/2005
This study examines potential long-term benefits of an intervention known to support 2- and 3-year-olds children's oral language skills, called "Dialogic Reading".

Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, UW
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    01/2001 - 12/2003
Research contrasts three methods of delivering a universal preventive intervention for parents of two-year-old children. The intervention uses shared picture book reading to promote young children's language development.

WA State Department of Social and Health Services
PI:   Huebner           Dates:    07/1997 - 07/2002
To develop and field test a new model of preventative intervention to serve mothers who are difficult to engage in more traditional, clinic-based parent education programs.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Connell           Dates:    07/1983 - 05/2000
The goals of this program are to train leaders in public health aspects of maternal and child health care.

Huebner CE, Meltzoff AN. A randomized comparison of instructional method on parent-child reading style [accepted 1/05, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology].

Bell JA**, Zimmerman FJ, Huebner CE, Cawthon ML, Ward DH, Schroeder CA. Perinatal health service use by women released from jail. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2004;15(3):426-442.

Huebner, CE, Dunlop M, Case, A. Containing violence: A case study illustration of Bion's container/contained model as applied to mother-infant intervention. Clinical Social Work Journal 2004;32(2):141-157.

Huebner CE, Barlow WE, Tyll LT, Johnston BD, Thompson RS. Expanding developmental and behavioral services for newborns in primary care; Program design, delivery, and evaluation framework. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004;26(4):344-355.

Huebner CE. Evaluation of a parent education program to reduce the risk of infant and toddler maltreatment. Public Health Nursing 2002;19(5):377-389.

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