Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Community-Oriented Public Health Practice
  -  Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
  -  Extended Master of Public Health Program
International District Housing Alliance
606 Maynard Ave S. #105
Seattle, WA 98104
(voice)  206-623-5132
sharyne@apialliance.org
Cultural Competency; Community-based participatory research

• HSERV 571
  Cultural Competency for Public Health Practice
• HSERV 571   (Extended MPH Program)
  Cultural Competency for Public Health Practice
• HSERV 590   (Extended MPH Program)
  Cultural Competency

Cultural Competency, Community-based participatory research Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    09/2004 - 08/2008
The major goals of this project are to ensure that the public health workforce has the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, characterize, control and develop prevention programs that will be effective in safeguarding the residents and the six state region from current and emerging threats to their health, including the threats of bioterrorist attack.

National Institute of Nursing Research
PI:   Berkowitz           Dates:    09/2002 - 09/2007
The purpose of the Nursing Partnership Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research is to participate in and provide leadership to research-based innovations that will reduce health disparities among and within population groups.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Stergachis           Dates:    09/2003 - 02/2007
The University of Washington proposes to establish a multi-disciplinary curriculum that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize indications of a terrorist event or other public health emergency and meet the acute health needs of victims of such an event.

Group Health Coop
PI:   Shiu-Thornton           Dates:    07/2005 - 11/2006
This project will establish a partnership with PSKCo., GHC, and ICHS to conduct assessments of medical interpreters' training background and experience as interpreters and in particular their training needs for disaster situations.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Connell           Dates:    11/2003 - 02/2005
The University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Public Health Seattle & King County propose to formalize and intensify their collaboration to enhance the skills of the public health workforce.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   LoGerfo           Dates:    09/1999 - 09/2003
The major goal of this project is to improve the health of urban, marginalized Seattle residents by conducting community-based collaborative research. The focus of this research is to define and affect social determinants of health.

Hope Heart Institute
PI:   Spigner           Dates:    09/2000 - 08/2003
The object of this study is to increase organ donation and living-related transplantation among minority groups in Seattle.