Faculty

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Core Faculty

Janice F. Bell, MN, MPH, PhD

jfbell@u.washington.edu; 206-685-4979
Assistant Professor of Health Services,
School of Public Health

Research and teaching interests:

  • Childhood obesity
  • Social determinants of maternal and child health
  • Health geography
  • Disparities in maternal and child health
  • Health services research
  • Secondary analysis of large survey datasets

Colleen E. Huebner, PhD, MPH

colleenh@u.washington.edu; 206-685-9852
Associate Professor of Health Services,
School of Public Health
Adjunct Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing, School of Nursing
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry

Research and teaching interests:

  • Social basis of language
  • Cognitive, and emotional development in normal and at-risk children
  • Epidemiology of early developmental problems
  • Preventive intervention
  • Program evaluation

Affiliations: Center on Human Development and Disability; Institute on Learning and Brain Sciences; Center for Infant Mental Health; Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative

Jane Rees, PhD, RD, CD

jrees@u.washington.edu; 206-616-9309
Lecturer in Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Adjunct Lecturer of Health Services,
School of Public Health

Adolescent Nutrition
Information about adolescent eating disorders, including a description of the various disorders, and their development, complications, and treatments.

Research and teaching interests:

  • Weight gain in pregnant adolescents and optimal birth weight of their infants
  • Nutrition education
  • Adolescent health
  • Prevention of adolescent pregnancy

Melissa Schiff, MD, MPH

mschiff@u.washington.edu; 206-744-9436
Associate Professor of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health

Research and teaching interests:

  • Perinatal and reproductive epidemiology
  • Injury during pregnancy
  • Maternal mortality
  • American Indian women's health

Affiliations: Harborview Injury Prevention Center

Rosa Solorio, MD, MPH

solorio@u.washington.edu; (206) 543-9773
Assistant Professor of Health Services,
School of Public Health

Research and teaching interests:

  • Adolescent health promotion
  • Latino racial/ethnic health disparities
  • Prevention of HIV and other STDs
  • Access to care and health policy

Marcia F. Williams, PhD, MPH, PT

marwill@u.washington.edu; 206-685-0481
Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine

Research and teaching interests:

  • Etiology of cerebral palsy in low birth weight infants
  • Effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine on the developmental outcome of children
  • Risk factors for clubfoot deformity in infants

Affiliations: Center on Human Development and Disability

Michelle Williams, ScD, SM, MS

mwilliam@u.washington.edu; 206-543-8225
Professor of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health

Research and teaching interests:

  • Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology
  • Clinical markers of placental pathology and how they relate to potentially modifiable exogenous risk factors of adverse pregnancy outcomes
  • Evaluation of prenatal screening protocols for Down Syndrome
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Quantitative methods for evaluation measurement error

Affiliations: Co-Director, Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center, Director, Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) Program