Clarence Spigner
Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory
(Prayer read by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United Nations, June 14, 1942).
Education
DrPH University of California (Berkeley), 1987 (Behavioral Science)MPH University of California (Berkeley), 1982 (Behavioral Science)
AB University of California (Berkeley), 1979 (Sociology)
Contact Info
email: cspigner@uw.eduoffice: H-690D, Health Sciences Building
address:
University of Washington
1959 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-7660
campus box: 357660
voice: 206-616-2948
About
Clarence Spigner serves as Director of the MPH and MS Programs in Health Services. Spigner's teaching and research interests are in the health of disadvantage populations, race & ethnic relations, and the intersections of popular culture's influence. His primary and critical focus is in community based research and the inherent contradictions of race, gender, and structural inequalities within institutions of health and medicine. His research/publications include, but are not limited to; tobacco-related behavior, organ donation & transplantation, stress and coping strategies, and intra-ethnic tensions. He and wife Jennifer, daughter Surita, and son Ravi live in Seattle.
Alsayid M, Tlimat NM, Spigner C, Dimaano C. Perceptions of colorectal cancer screening in the Arab American community: a pilot study. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2019 Jul 1;20:e90. doi: 10.1017/S1463423619000161. PMID: 32799969 PMCID: PMC6609968
Murugan H, Spigner C, McKinney CM, Wong CJ. Primary care provider approaches to preventive health delivery: a qualitative study. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2018 Sep;19(5):464-474. doi: 10.1017/S1463423617000858. Epub 2018 Jan 8. PMID: 29307319 PMCID: PMC6452935
Hagopian A, West KM, Ornelas IJ, Hart AN, Hagedorn J, Spigner C. Adopting an Anti-Racism Public Health Curriculum Competency: The University of Washington Experience. Public Health Rep. 2018 Jul/Aug;133(4):507-513. doi: 10.1177/0033354918774791. Epub 2018 May 30. PMID: 29847749 PMCID: PMC6055294
Young BA, Fullerton SM, Wilson JG, Cavanaugh K, Blacksher E, Spigner C, Himmelfarb J, Burke W. Clinical Genetic Testing for APOL1: Are we There Yet? Semin Nephrol. 2017 Nov;37(6):552-557. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2017.07.009. Review. PMID: 29110763 PMCID: PMC6774255
This project employs basically qualitative approaches to assess how African Americans who are already diagnosed with hypertension cope with the disease. In part, a bibliographic analysis of hypertension studies is underway under the informal hypothesis that how health providers/research view hypertension or high blood pressure can reflect how people with the disease are treated.
Process Evaluation of Community-based Approaches to Washington's Statewide Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
This comprehensive research and service program employs a community-based participatory approach in developing tobacco-related control and prevention strategies statewide. Priority groups, or communities, such as African Americans, Asian American, Pacific Islanders, Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered), and low income whites. These groups operate in collaborative partnership with the State Department of Health and the Cross Cultural Health Care Program in formulating capacity building programs with built-in evaluative components to prevent and control tobacco-related behaviors.
Perceptions and Knowledge about Organ Donation Among African Americans and Asian Americans in Seattle, Washington
This community based research project is in collaboration with the Hope Heart Institute and employs qualitative and quantitative approaches to discerning opinions about the organ donation and tissue transplantation process among racial minority groups in Seattle.
Tobacco Cessation Among Asian American Men
In partnership with the International Community Health Services Clinic, this community-based research and evaluation project is designed to measure the efficacy of a clinic-based and culturally-specific tobacco cessation program that employs the Stages of Change Model (the Transtheoretical Model) of behavioral readiness.
Course Development: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Issues in Public Health
In collaboration with selected students and faculty within and external to the School of Public Health, developing a comprehensive course (or courses) that will address the historical, social, political, and epidemiological dimensions of LGBT issues in health.
Course Development: Race, Popular Film Imagery, and the Public's Health
In the process of developing freshman seminar courses which use images from popular film to help explain constructs and concepts of socio-political behavior and the relationship to public expectations health behavior.