Faculty Research Interest Results

Greenwald, Howard P.

Clinical Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Social epidemiology; health behavior; health policy; health service delivery; organizational behavior

Connell, Frederick A

Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Pediatrics health services and epidemiological research; health outcomes; medicaid; access to care.

Conrad, Douglas A

Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Vertical integration in health services; integrated health systems; impact of financial incentives on physician behavior

Kaetzel, Rhonda

Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Toxicology; water protection; air monitoring; environmental human health assessment; dose reconstruction; environmental health services

Matson, Tessa

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

substance use and substance use disorder, addiction health services, implementation science, health equity

Richardson, Laura P.

Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Adolescent health; depression; anxiety; suicidal behavior; transition to adulthood; health services delivery in primary care

Wagner, Edward H

Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Health services research; Health promotion and disease prevention

Brentlinger, Paula

Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health

Malaria, safe motherhood, child survival, health service delivery in armed conflict situations

Diehr, Paula

Professor Emeritus, Biostatistics; Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Applications of statistics to health services research and longitudinal data for older adults.

Reiber, Gayle

Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Prevention, control and cost of diabetes; health services research

Zhou, Chuan

Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Health services research; causal inference; missing data; Bayesian inference

Bekemeier, Betty

Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Effective public health system performance; public health financing; local public health service variation and population health impact; disparities in public health system resource allocation; public health workforce development and ...

Graves, Janessa M.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Occupational health services; rural health; health equity; community-engaged research; administrative and secondary data analysis; injury research; underserved populations

Mackenzie, Sara

Teaching Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health

Health promotion; substance abuse Health Services Biography

Stern, Marc F

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Correctional health care Health Services Biography

Zhou, Xiao-Hua Andrew

Professor Emeritus, Biostatistics

ROC curve methodology; causal inferences; analysis of skewed distributions; analysis of missing data; diagnostic medicine; health services research; mental health research

Denno, Donna M.

Professor, Global Health; Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Childhood infectious diseases, child and adolescent health in developing countries, health care delivery strategies

Gloyd, Steve

Professor, Global Health; Professor, Health Systems and Population Health; Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

Health systems research, implementation science, political economy of global health

Meischke, Hendrika W

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Health communication; health promotion; theory development

Salmon, Marla

Professor, Global Health

Community and public health nursing, health sciences policy and nursing leadership globally; nursing workforce policy

Lee, Christoph I

Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Imaging-based breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and surveillance; risk-based cancer screening; technology assessment; radiology health services research; radiology practice management

Basu, Anirban

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Health econometrics; cost-effectiveness; comparative effectiveness and value of information analyses; quality of life; spill-over effects; substantive focus on cancer, mental health and diabetes

Harris, Jeff

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Adult immunization; cancer screening; chronic disease; community-based prevention; health equity; health promotion; implementation science; older adults; physical activity; tobacco; workplace health Health Systems & Population Health ...

Karr, Catherine

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

Children's environmental health

Leroux, Brian G

Professor, Biostatistics

Statistical methodology for multilevel studies and clinical trials; statistical applications in oral health and emergency medicine

Pfeiffer, James

Professor, Global Health; Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Medical anthropology; International health; HIV/AIDS prevention

Ebi, Kristie L

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Professor, Global Health

Dr. Kristie L. Ebi is Professor in the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment. She has been conducting research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change for nearly 25 years. She focuses on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce risks in multi-stressor environments, and ...

Faustman, Elaine M

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

Clean Water, Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Health Equity, One Health, Risk Assessment, Toxicology DEOHS Biography

Farquhar, Carey

Acting Chair, Global Health; Professor, Epidemiology; Professor, Global Health

AIDS epidemiology and HIV prevention in Africa; heterosexual and vertical HIV transmission Global Health Biography

Fihn, Stephan D

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Quality of care particularly in the outpatient setting and in health measurement; clinical topics including heart disease, COPD, UTI, anticoagulation

Sullivan, Sean D

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Technology assessment; medical decision making; economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, particularly in the areas of respiratory disorders, organ transplantation, HIV/AIDS, mental health and clinical decision making

Wasserheit, Judith N.

Professor, Global Health; Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) research, policy development, and program implementation Global Health Biography

Sheppard, Lianne

Professor, Biostatistics; Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Endowed Professorship, School of Public Health

Air pollution health effects. Occupational epidemiological studies. Estimation of health effects from environmental and occupational exposures. Exposure modeling. Measurement error in health effects studies. Incorporating group information in epidemiologic studies. DEOHS ...

Spigner, Clarence

Professor, Health Systems and Population Health; Adjunct Professor, Global Health

Tobacco-related behavior; racism as a stressor; social construction of 'race' vis-a-vis biological reductionism in health research and behavior; knowledge and opinions about organ donation among ethnic groups; program evaluation; popular culture Health Systems & Population Health ...

McTiernan, Anne

Research Professor, Epidemiology

... angiogenesis, ghrelin, adipose tissue biology, long-term weight maintenance, long-term weight loss effects on cancer biomarkers, and behaviors predicting weight loss. She was Principal Investigator of the Seattle site of the NCI-funded Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) cohort, which is assessing associations of anthropometrics, body composition, hormones, diet, and physical activity with breast cancer prognosis. Dr. McTiernan was Principal Investigator of the ...

Abernethy, Neil F

Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Public Health Informatics standards, epidemic models, and molecular epidemiology in the context of global health; scientific and social networks as they pertain to collaborative research; novel 3-D imaging displays; environmental interventions for infectious disease; high-throughput biology; evolutionary game ...

Kaufman, Joel D

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Professor, Epidemiology

Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, occupational asthma, traffic-related air pollution and environmental health DEOHS ...

Kernic, Mary A.

Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Intimate partner violence and child maltreatment, public health law research, social disparities of health, epidemiological methods, injury epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology Epidemiology Faculty Bio

Meschke, John Scott

Associate Chair, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

Dr. Meschke is an environmental and occupational health microbiologist, specializing in the fate, transport, detection and control of pathogens in environmental media (air, water, food and surfaces). He is Associate Chair and Graduate Program Coordinator for the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. DEOHS ...

John-Stewart, Grace C.

Professor, Epidemiology; Professor, Global Health

Dr. Grace John-Stewart is a Professor of Global Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics at the University of Washington. Her interests include prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), improving outcomes for children with HIV, and addressing relevant co-infections that affect women and children with HIV (including TB, pneumonia, diarrhea, CMV). Dr. John-Stewart has published over 275 peer-reviewed articles. Her research is based in Kenya and includes ...

Manhart, Lisa E.

Professor, Epidemiology; Adjunct Professor, Global Health

... cohort studies of men with urethritis to explore the role of the male urethral microbiome in genital tract disease. Current projects also include studies of the psychosocial implications of STI and HIV-infection, including stigma and mental health, and studies to define the social context of STI risk.

Peters, Ulrike

Research Professor, Epidemiology

... risk factors and survival in relation to colorectal cancer subtypes defined by existing tumor characteristics as well as novel somatic mutations in colorectal cancer. A further interest of us is the translation of our findings into public health practice and clinical care. Accordingly, we have developed comprehensive risk prediction models that can personalize screening decisions.

Smith, Nicholas L.

Professor, Epidemiology

... diabetes, and heart failure. A major focus of my research in the past 15 years has been on genetic association studies, first conducted in the local setting and now being orchestrated internationally. Early work was conducted at Group Health Research Institute and involved a series of case-controls studies conducted with colleagues at the University of Washington. These studies addressed primarily pharmaco and pharmaco-genetic epidemiologic questions related to myocardial ...

Xia, Zhengui

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences; Endowed Chair, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

Apoptosis. Neurogenesis. Adult neurogenesis. Children's health. Developmental toxicology. Genetic susceptibility to toxins. Nervous system toxicity. Neurotoxicology. Neurobiology. Olfaction and cognition. Heavy metals. Lead, cadmium, gene-environment interactions. GXE. Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitive decline. Senile dementia. Sex differences on disease susceptibility. Window of susceptibility. DEOHS ...

Li, Christopher I-Fu

Research Professor, Epidemiology

... Sound Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry, 2. Chairing the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program’s Integration Panel (FY 2017), and 3. Co-chairing the 2017 AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Schwartz, Steve

Professor, Epidemiology

... funded research projects include studies focusing on the genetic and non-genetic risk factors for HPV-cancers and testicular germ cell tumors. Other areas of cancer research focus on molecular markers for oral cancer outcomes and the health and well-being of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Among his other responsibilities in the field of cancer epidemiology, he serves as Principal Investigator of the Cancer Surveillance System, a population-based cancer ...

Banta-Green, Caleb J.

Adjunct Research Professor, Epidemiology; Adjunct Research Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Drug abuse epidemiology; health services research; youth substance abuse prevention; drug overdose prevention; drug treatment services research Health Services ...

Edmonds, Amy Tran

Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Intersection of health services research and social/psychiatric epidemiology; policy and program evaluation, especially related to efforts to improve access and quality of mental health and substance use services and behavioral health outcomes; assessment of health inequities and social determinants of health; administrative data, nontraditional data sources, cross-sector data ...

Hoeft, Theresa

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Mixed-methods in health services research, health economics and community-based participatory research; scalable and culturally responsive models of behavioral health care delivery; integrating behavioral health into primary care; clinic-community partnerships to address social determinants of health; lay health providers work in and with health care systems; ...

Laing, Sharon S.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health

Chronic disease prevention; technology and health promotion; mobile health promotion; health disparities; cancer prevention; community health and wellness Health Services ...