Dept. of Health Services
Program Affiliations
Program Affiliations
Anne M. Turner
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
Research Interests:
Public health workforce information workflow; public health digital libraries; natural language processing to access to public health gray literature
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Contact Information
email: amturner@u.washington.edu
address:
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98105
campus box: 354809
voice: 206-221-3615
address:
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98105
campus box: 354809
voice: 206-221-3615
Education
MPH
University of Washington, 2005 (Health Services, Medical Informatics)
MLIS University of Washington, 2001 (Information Sciences)
MD Brown University, 1985 (Medicine)
BS University of California (Irvine), 1981 (Biology)
MLIS University of Washington, 2001 (Information Sciences)
MD Brown University, 1985 (Medicine)
BS University of California (Irvine), 1981 (Biology)
Teaching (Department of Health Services Courses)
Recent Publications
Mandel H, Turner AM. Exploring local public health workflow in the context of automated translation technologies. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:939-45. eCollection 2013. PMID: 24551385 PMCID: PMC3900226
Turner AM, Mandel H, Capurro D. Local health department translation processes: potential of machine translation technologies to help meet needs. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:1378-85. eCollection 2013. PMID: 24551414 PMCID: PMC3900152
Turner AM, Bergman M, Brownstein M, Cole K, Kirchhoff K. A Comparison of Human and Machine Translation of Health Promotion Materials for Public Health Practice: Time, Costs, and Quality. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2013 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24084391
Reeder B, Hills RA, Turner AM, Demiris G. Participatory Design of an Integrated Information System Design to Support Public Health Nurses and Nurse Managers. Public Health Nurs. 2013 Sep 30. doi: 10.1111/phn.12081. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24117760
Turner AM, Reeder B, Ramey J. Scenarios, personas and user stories: user-centered evidence-based design representations of communicable disease investigations. J Biomed Inform. 2013 Aug;46(4):575-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.04.006. Epub 2013 Apr 22. PMID: 23618996
Turner AM, Mandel H, Capurro D. Local health department translation processes: potential of machine translation technologies to help meet needs. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013 Nov 16;2013:1378-85. eCollection 2013. PMID: 24551414 PMCID: PMC3900152
Turner AM, Bergman M, Brownstein M, Cole K, Kirchhoff K. A Comparison of Human and Machine Translation of Health Promotion Materials for Public Health Practice: Time, Costs, and Quality. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2013 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24084391
Reeder B, Hills RA, Turner AM, Demiris G. Participatory Design of an Integrated Information System Design to Support Public Health Nurses and Nurse Managers. Public Health Nurs. 2013 Sep 30. doi: 10.1111/phn.12081. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24117760
Turner AM, Reeder B, Ramey J. Scenarios, personas and user stories: user-centered evidence-based design representations of communicable disease investigations. J Biomed Inform. 2013 Aug;46(4):575-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.04.006. Epub 2013 Apr 22. PMID: 23618996
External Funding (sampling of recent awards from UW SAGE data)
Addressing the Personal Health Information Management Needs of Older Adults
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)PI: Turner Dates: 12/1/2013 - 11/30/2018
Simulation training to improve 911 dispatcher identification of cardiac arrest
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)PI: Meischke Dates: 8/1/2013 - 7/31/2014
Simulation training to improve 911dispatcher identification of cardiac arrest
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)PI: Meischke Dates: 10/1/2012 - 9/30/2015
Northwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)PI: Allan Dates: 9/30/2011 - 9/29/2012
Extending Emergency Response Skills to Limited English Proficiency Communties
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)PI: Meischke Dates: 9/30/2011 - 9/29/2012
Improving capacity to effectively engage and communicate with LA communities before and during public health emergencies
Public Health Foundation Enterprises (PHFE)PI: Allan Dates: 6/10/2011 - 7/31/2011
Northwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)PI: Allan Dates: 9/30/2010 - 9/29/2015
Improving access to multi-lingual health information through machine translation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)PI: Turner Dates: 7/1/2010 - 6/30/2015
Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program
National Library of Medicine (NLM)PI: Tarczy-hornoch Dates: 7/1/2010 - 6/30/2011
Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program
National Library of Medicine (NLM)PI: Tarczy-hornoch Dates: 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2012
Projects
TranPHorm Translation Project
Researchers at TransPHorm are investigating the use of machine translation technology to shorten the time and costs of translating public health materials. The end goal of this research is to improve access to health information within limited English proficiency (LEP) populations.
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