The SPH Awards recognize exemplary staff, faculty and students for their dedication, service, and many contributions to our School.
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2022 SPH Student, Faculty, and Staff Awards
GILBERT S. OMENN AWARD FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
PhD: Tessa Matson
Health Systems and Population Health
Tessa Matson will graduate from UW’s Health Systems and Population Health Ph.D. program. She is a predoctoral fellow at VA Puget Sound and Research Interventionist at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. Her overall career goal is to integrate addiction health services within primary care in patient-centered ways that can reduce disparities and help patients feel valued and more informed about treatment options. Her dissertation describes gaps and potential biases in diagnosis and treatment of cannabis use disorder and validates practical tools to improve cannabis use disorder recognition in primary care. After graduating, she will pursue opportunities in implementation science.
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Master's: Horacio Chacon Torrico
Global Health
Horacio is a Peruvian physician that has spent the last seven years working in health metrics and public health. After his MD, he studied Biomedical Informatics to better understand health information systems and support the development of a maternal and neonatal community-led program in the Amazon. He co-developed community health worker-led interventions using information and communication technologies, where his main interests lay in underserved and remote populations. He was awarded an OAS Graduate studies scholarship to pursue his Global Health MPH, and has been working in I-TECH ́s Zimbabwe HIV Care and Treatment program where he contributed to understanding performance indicators and the information system of the intervention ́s Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
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ANDERSON-O’CONNELL AWARD
FOR OUTSTANDING STAFF SERVICE
Vickie Ramirez
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Vickie is known for her leadership and skills as a DEOHS Research Coordinator. She joined DEOHS in 2013 supporting Dr. Peter Rabinowitz’s research, the UW Center for One Health Research and the Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness. Vickie helps set strategy, develop proposals and oversees large federal grants while managing education and training programs, internships and community engagement. Vickie’s commitment to equity, justice and anti‐racism is demonstrated by her work with the One Health Clinic, serving youth experiencing homelessness and their pets by coordinating integrated human and veterinary medical services and projects exploring the impact of emerging health concerns among diverse populations.
Outstanding Staff
Biostatistics – Minh Vo
DEOHS – Vickie Ramirez
Epidemiology – Cassie Atkinson-Edwards
Global Health – Arika Johnson
Health Systems and Population Health – Nikki Dettmar
Office of the Dean – Amra Habibuddin
Distinguished Faculty Member for Teaching
Amy Willis, Biostatistics
Outstanding Faculty Mentor
Anjum Hajat, Epidemiology
Outstanding Community Service Student
Lori Mae Yvette Calibuso Acob, Public Health-Global Health
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Yiqun Chen, Biostatistics
Outstanding Community Partner
Mary's Place
Outstanding Undergraduate Students
Public Health-Global Health - Najma Abdi
Food Systems, Nutrition and Health - Christina Gonzalez
Environmental Health - Amalawa Aiwekhoe
Health Informatics & Health Information Management - David Sagiyan
Outstanding Master’s Students
Biostatistics - Niki Petrakos
DEOHS - Shelley Stephan
Epidemiology - Courtney Hill
Health Systems and Population Health - Coraima Sales-Arteaga
Global Health - Leah Wood
Health Management & Informatics - Molly Cha
Nutritional Sciences - Evelyn Morris
Outstanding PhD Students
Biostatistics - Serge Aleshin-Guendel
DEOHS - Megumi Matsushita
Epidemiology - Anna Larsen
Global Health - Claire Gwayi-Chore
Health Systems and Population Health - Madeline Frost