McKenna Eastment, MD, MPH

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Assistant Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Diseases

McKenna Eastment, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago prior to moving to Seattle. She then completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship here at the University of Washington. During her ID fellowship, she also completed a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology. Her research interests include global women’s health, cervical cancer screening, HIV treatment and prevention, and implementation science. She is the PI on a career development award testing an implementation strategy to increase cervical cancer screening in Mombasa County, Kenya and an R01 scaling up an implementation strategy to increase integration of HIV treatment and prevention into family planning clinics in Mombasa County, Kenya. She also attends on the Infectious Diseases consult service at the VA. 

Publications

  1. Oyaro, B, Wanje, G, Richardson, BA, Temmerman, M, McClelland, RS, Eastment, M et al.. A mixed-methods assessment of individual client-level and clinic-level factors associated with uptake of cervical cancer screening (CCS) services in family planning (FP) clinics receiving an intervention to support these services in Mombasa County, Kenya. Implement Sci Commun. 2026;7 (1):21. doi: 10.1186/s43058-025-00852-4. PubMed PMID:41508153 PubMed Central PMC12882629.
  2. Kwendakwema, CN, Eastment, MC, Wanje, G, Richardson, BA, Mwaringa, E, Sherr, K et al.. Cross-sectional study evaluating organizational climate, change commitment, and change efficacy for predicting family planning clinics' success in increasing HIV counseling and testing in Mombasa, Kenya. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025;5 (12):e0005542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005542. PubMed PMID:41474700 PubMed Central PMC12755772.
  3. Olivieri, DJ, Eastment, MC, Mugisha, N, Menon, MP. Correlates of cervical cancer awareness among women aged 30-49 in five sub-Saharan African nations: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)-2017-2023. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025;5 (5):e0003344. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003344. PubMed PMID:40333666 PubMed Central PMC12057955.
  4. Liu, F, Hoang-Nguyen, H, Ham, E, Eastment, MC, Tulloch-Palomino, LG. Patterns of antimicrobial use among hospitalized Veterans with and without a penicillin-class allergy. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025;5 (1):e57. doi: 10.1017/ash.2025.11. PubMed PMID:40026761 PubMed Central PMC11869061.
  5. Paneru, B, Karmacharya, A, Makaju, S, Kafle, D, Poudel, L, Mali, S et al.. Socio-economic factors associated with cancer stigma among apparently healthy women in two selected municipalities Nepal. PLoS One. 2024;19 (12):e0301059. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301059. PubMed PMID:39680514 PubMed Central PMC11649127.
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