Faculty
Sociology
Sociology
English
Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
- Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
- PhD program in Health Services
Engelberta Thompson teaches a course in community and health. Her research focuses on cancer prevention, especially smoking cessation, dietary change, and screening behavior. She has conducted a number of studies with ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics.
Met Park II
1100 Fairview Avenue N., MP-702
Box: 358080
Seattle, WA 98109
(voice) 206-667-4673 (fax) 206-667-5977
bthompso@fhcrc.org
- HSERV 510
Society and Health - HSERV 588
Community Approaches to Health Promotion - HSERV 591
COPHP PBL Core Curriculum - Year 1
PI: Thompson Dates: 05/2003 - 04/2006
The overall goal of this project is to increase smoking cessation rates among women of child-bearing age in a suburban community of Santiago, Chile.
PI: Thompson Dates: 03/2005 - 09/2005
The Northwest center for public Health Practice will collect, analyze, and report the results of two training needs assessments in the State of Oregon: one for the local health department workforce, and one for the State public health workforce.
PI: Thompson Dates: 09/2001 - 08/2005
Recruit 30 residential colleges to test a comprehensive tobacco control program among college students.
PI: Thompson Dates: 07/2005 - 08/2005
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice will coordinate and sponsor a Second Annual Washington State Tribal Emergency Preparedness and Response Conference.
PI: Thompson Dates: 03/2005 - 06/2005
The purpose of this contract is to have the Northwest center for Public Health Practice provide consultative, planning and facilitation services in support of the Cross Border Meeting to be held on April 19-20, 2005.
PI: LoGerfo Dates: 09/2002 - 09/2004
The primary goal of this project will create a national Prevention Research Center Cancer Control and Prevention Network.
PI: Rossing Dates: 12/1999 - 11/2002
Using a cohort of 700 women previously enrolled in a smoking cessation trial, genetic influences on smoking cessation will be examined
PI: Thompson Dates: 12/2001 - 11/2002
To test the efficacy of incorporating telephone counseling into decreasing smoking cessation rates among heavy smokers and to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions that include brief counseling compared to interventions that do not.
Puschel K, Sullivan S, Montero JL, Thompson B, Diaz AF. Cost-effectiveness analysis of a screening program for gallblader disease in Chile (Analisis de costo-efectividad de un programa preventivo de enfermedad vesicular en Chile). Revista Medica de Chile, 2002;130, 447-459.
Thompson B, Coronado G, Puschel K, Allen E. Identifying constituents to participate in a project to control pesticide exposure in children of farmworkers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2001;109:443-448.
Puschel K, Thompson B, Coronado G, Lopez LC, Kimball AM. Factors related to cancer screening in Hispanics: a comparison of the perceptions of Hispanic community members, health care providers, and representatives of organizations that serve Hispanics. Health Education and Behavior, 2001; 28: 273-590.
Feng Z, Thompson B. Some design issues in a community intervention trial. Controlled Clinical Trials, in press.
Thompson B, Coronado G, Solomon C, McClerran DF, Neuhauser ML, Feng Z. Cancer prevention behaviors and socioeconomic status among Hispanics and non-Hospanic Whites in a rural population in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control, in press.
