{"id":11683,"date":"2025-07-28T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:27:33","slug":"hannon-receives-harris-wasserheit-endowed-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/hannon-receives-harris-wasserheit-endowed-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannon receives Harris-Wasserheit Endowed Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hannon_Peggy_2024-web-731x1024-1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hannon_Peggy_2024-web-731x1024-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hannon_Peggy_2024-web-731x1024-1-375x525.jpg 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hannon_Peggy_2024-web-731x1024-1.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Peggy Hannon, Director of the Health Promotion Research Center, has been named the inaugural holder of the <strong>Harris-Wasserheit Endowed Professorship in Health Systems and Population Health<\/strong>. The new endowed professorship, made possible by <a href=\"https:\/\/hspop.uw.edu\/about\/faculty\/member\/?faculty_id=Harris_Jeffrey\">Dr. Jeff Harris<\/a> and Dr. Judy Wasserheit, is designed to enhance the University\u2019s ability to recruit and retain outstanding faculty in the Department, with a preference for those whose research and teaching focus on health promotion\u2014a long-standing priority for both donors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hspop.uw.edu\/about\/faculty\/member\/?faculty_id=Hannon_Peggy\">Dr. Hannon<\/a> is a nationally recognized expert in cancer screening and workplace health promotion. \u201cThis professorship is an amazing opportunity,\u201d said Hannon. \u201cI really appreciate Jeff and Judy creating this recognition for faculty in our department. Over the years to come, others who hold the professorship will find creative and impactful ways to make use of this support. For me, it creates an opportunity and a challenge to explore new directions\u2014both new strategies for my current work, and new topics altogether.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"uw-btn btn-external btn-sm btn-none\" href=\"https:\/\/hspop.uw.edu\/harris-wasserheit-endowed-professorship\/ \">READ THE FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peggy Hannon, Director of the Health Promotion Research Center, has been named the innaugural holder of the Harris-Wasserheit Endowed Professorship.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hprc\/hannon-receives-harris-wasserheit-endowed-professorship\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[51],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hannon receives Harris-Wasserheit Endowed Professorship - 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