Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
  -  Master of Health Administration Program
  -  Community-Oriented Public Health Practice
  -  Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
  -  Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
  -  Extended Master of Public Health Program

Jack Thompson has served as the Director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. Prior to his appointment, Thompson was employed by the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health for ten years, and was the Director of the Seatle Health Services Division since 1986. Before coming to the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, Thompson was Executive Director of Neighborhood Health Centers of Seattle, a consortium of community health centers, for six years. Prior to his Lecturer and Senior Lecturer appointments, he served as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Health Services for six years.

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 400
Box:  354809
Seattle, WA 98105-4809
(voice)  206-616-1061     (fax)  206-616-9415
jackt@u.washington.edu
Public health organization and financing, workforce development, integration of health and health care services. Community Development Concentration, Community-oriented Public Health MPH Program.

• HSERV 501   (Extended MPH Program)
  Public Health Practice at the Local Level
• HSERV 511
  Introduction to Health Services and Public Health

Public health organization and financing, workforce development, integration of health and health care services Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Oberle           Dates:    09/2005 - 08/2010
The purpose of the Northwest Public Health Training Center grant is to improve the public health system in the Northwest region by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies of the current and future public health workforce.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    10/2005 - 09/2008
The Northwest Public health leadership Institute is committed to developing and supporting community leaders who seek to fulfill society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can live healthy in healthy communities.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Edwards           Dates:    09/2004 - 08/2008
The Northwest Center for Genomics and Public Health serves as a regional hub of expertise in genomics and public health and facilitates the translation of genomic information into public health policy, responds to requests for information, and provides training.

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.

WA State Department of Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    01/2007 - 08/2007
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice will coordinate and sponsor an Annual Washington State Tribal Emergency Preparedness and Response Conference.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    10/2005 - 09/2008
This application requests funding to develop an alumni network which will be a new educational activity of the Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    09/2006 - 08/2007
The NWCPHPP will provide a series of trainings in performance management and leadership to the public health nursing workforce in the state of Washington and the NW region.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PI:   Berkowitz           Dates:    07/1996 - 11/2006
The primary goal of this project is to transform and strengthen the public health system in the United States so that it is more effective, more community based and more collaborative in protecting and improving that public's health.

Department of Health and Human Services
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    09/2005 - 09/2006
The purpose of this contract is to develop a framework that includes a discrete set of metrics for assessing regional public health emergency preparedness in PHS Region X.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    11/2002 - 10/2005
The goal of this project is to establish a national model for Executive Bioterrorism Preparedness Training.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    07/2002 - 09/2005
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.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    10/2003 - 09/2005
The Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute will focus on the development of community leadership to improve the health of communities.

Health Resources Services Administration
PI:   Oberle           Dates:    09/2000 - 08/2005
The major goal of this project is to collaborate with state health departments and educational institutions to create a Public Health Workforce Training Center serving six states in the northwestern United States and establish training coordinators in each of the states.

Kansas Health Foundation
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    02/2005 - 05/2005
The purpose of this contract is to scope and develop a plan to conduct a cluster evaluation of the Kansas Health Foundation's recent public health grants, as well as assess the state of the Kansas' public health system.

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.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    10/2001 - 09/2003
The major goals of this project are to transform and strengthen the public health infrastructure in the United States so that states, local communities, and their public health agencies may respond to the challenge to protect and improve the public's health in the 21st century.

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    10/2002 - 09/2003
The major goals of this project are to transform and strengthen the public health infrastructure in the United States so that states, local communities, and their public health agencies may respond to the challenge to protect and improve the public's health in the 21st century.

WA State Department of Health
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    04/2001 - 09/2003
To assess the WA State Board of Health's potential policy development priorities.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    04/2002 - 03/2003
The primary goal of this project is to organize the second annual Western Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference, in May 2002, for the purpose of allowing experts and learners from the western states to share skills and expertise.

University of North Dakota
PI:   Thompson           Dates:    01/2002 - 06/2002
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Center for Health Education Research will develop a curriculum for the University of North Dakota's Health Promotion Specialists Certificate Program.

WA State Department of Health
PI:   Katz           Dates:    11/2001 - 03/2002
To assist the Department of Health establish an HIV/AIDS Prevention Study Committee.

Washington Health Foundation
PI:   Katz           Dates:    06/2000 - 05/2001


WA State Department of Health
PI:   Katz           Dates:    05/2000 - 08/2000
Development of performance standards for public health departments and assessment of needs in the rural health community.

WA State Office of Financial Management
PI:   Katz           Dates:    11/1998 - 12/1999
To promote investigation and legislation efforts on improved public health policies affecting access, practice and education.

WA State Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission
PI:   Katz           Dates:    05/1998 - 01/1999
To study the effects of the State CON project on health services and the expected effects of the repeal of the existing program.