Faculty

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Core Faculty

Colleen E. Huebner, PhD, MPH
colleenh@u.washington.edu; 206-685-9852
Associate Professor of Health Services,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
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 and Community Medicine
Research and teaching interests:

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

Melissa Schiff, MD, MPH
mschiff@u.washington.edu; 206-543-7405 or 206-744-9436
Associate Professor of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Research and teaching interests:

  • Perinatal and reproductive epidemiology
  • Injury during pregnancy
  • Maternal mortality
  • American Indian women's health
Affiliations: Harborview Injury Prevention Center

Marcia F. Williams, PhD, MPH, PT
marwill@u.washington.edu; 206-685-0481
Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
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 and Community Medicine
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

Frederick Zimmerman, PhD, MS
fzimmer@u.washington.edu; 206-616-9392
Associate Professor of Health Services,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Research and teaching interests:

  • Economics of population health disparities
  • Maternal and child health
  • International health
Affiliations: Director, Child Health Institute