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Sharyne Shiu-Thornton, Ph.D.
LecturerHealth Services
Public Health and Community Medicine
206.616-2940
206.543-3964

E-mail to sharyne@u.washington.edu

Research Interests:

  • HSERV 590V Cultural Competency and Public Health Practice [in process of receiving permanent course status with new course number] - Spr. Qtr.; 4 credits; limit 12 students; open to students in public health; nursing; social work; anthropology
  • Immigrant/refugee mental health -Cultural competency: clinical practice; organizational development; research -Immigrant/refugee women: domestic violence; perinatal health care; mental health -Urban American Indian: health status; discrimination in health care -Urban American Indian women: domestic violence; mental health -Interpretation in health care; working with medical interpreters
  • ethnographic fieldwork; participant observation focus groups narratives; life histories

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