Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
  -  PhD program in Health Services
  -  Department of Global Health, (MPH Program)

Dr. Kimball directs the APEC Emerging Infections Network, and the Fogarty International Scholars program in Health Informatics. She serves on the International Faculty Council of the University.

University District Building
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 400
Box:  354809
Seattle, WA 98105-4631
(voice)  206-616-2949
akimball@u.washington.edu
Epidemiology; HIV/AIDS; Emerging Infections, International Trade and Public Health Policy, Global Health

• HSERV 536
  Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance
• HSERV 536   (Extended MPH Program)
  Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance

Global Health, Maternal and Child Health; HIV/AIDS; County and local public health; Surveillance and control of emerging infections. National Institutes of Health
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    08/2004 - 07/2009
The training program in Informatics for Global Health will foster the development of the capacity of UPCH to continue its role as a leading biomedical research institution and also create a home to health informatics research activity in Peru.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Oberle           Dates:    10/2007 - 09/2008
The goal of this project is to work with the Field Epidemiology Training Program in the People's Republic of China and the University of Washington to create an accreditable applied epidemiology MPH or certificate program.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Oberle           Dates:    09/2005 - 09/2008
The goal of this project is to establish a Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics at the University of Washington.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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.

Fogarty International Center
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    09/1999 - 05/2006
The goal of this project is to implement an International Health and Biomedical Informatics Training Program that will train scholars in Peru in Informatics, emphasizing skills building and applications of techniques to ongoing research and public health surveillance in Peru.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
PI:   Mitchell           Dates:    12/2001 - 11/2004
The major goal of this project is to sustain and extend classroom and clinical inter-professional education into the required curricula of the six University of Washington Health Sciences Schools and the Information School.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Mitchell           Dates:    09/2001 - 09/2004
To develop a curriculum for the collaborative education of physicians and nurses in leadership to promote patient safety

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    07/2003 - 06/2004
The overall objective of this work is to apply and refine new methods describing the occurrence and recognition of epidemic infectious diseases on global trade flows.

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    07/2003 - 11/2003
This proposal seeks to extend and aggressively enhance the reach and capabilities of emerging infections surveillance in APEC. The overall goal of this project is to prevent the emergence of, and promote the timely control of transmission of new infections as trade and travel intensifies among cooperating economies.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Gale           Dates:    10/2000 - 09/2003
The primary goal of this project is to serve as the leader in providing curricula for ongoing public health preparedness and injury prevention to state and local health professionals in the 6 Northwestern states.

World Health Organization
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    01/2003 - 09/2003
The major goal of this project is to describe how the non-disease oriented IHR may mitigate trade losses over time through reduction of stigmatization.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    10/2001 - 06/2003
The primary goals of this project are to evaluate the network of networks strategy for disease surveillance in the Asia Pacific and to analyze the WTO data regarding infectious diseases experience in international trade.

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.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Stuart           Dates:    09/1997 - 09/2002
Development of ongoing collaboration in disease epidemiology, surveillance, and diagnosis with colleagues in Indonesia.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Kimball           Dates:    02/2001 - 01/2002
This proposal details a three-day meeting to be held in January of 2002 in cooperation with the CDC to promote collaboration among existing disease alert and surveillance electronic networks in the Asia Pacific.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Gale           Dates:    11/1996 - 06/2000
Develop and establish a graduate-level certification/training program for CDC field assignees known as Public Health Advisors (PHAs).

Narian JP, White FM, Kimball A, Zessler L, Zacarias FR. Combatting AIDS in the Carribbean: a coordinated subregional approach. Bulletin of the Pan American Health ORganization 1990; 24(3): 335-340

Kimball A, Gonzalez R, Zacarias F. AIDS among women in Latin America and the Carribbean. Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization 1991; 25(4): 367-373.

Kimball AM, Thant M. It is time for Asian businesses to act against the spread of HIV. Lancet 1996; 347(9016):1670-1762

• Search for publications using PubMed