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David Arterburn, MD, MPH
Affiliation: Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Email: arterburn.d@ghc.org
Expertise: Long-term outcomes of bariatric surgery; behavioral weight loss interventions
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; NPR article on gastric bypass surgery research; Kaiser Permanente feature
Wendy Barrington, PhD
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
Email: wendybar@uw.edu
Expertise: Neighborhood effects on obesogenic behaviors
Highlights: Recent publications; UW School of Public Health Close Up feature
Layla Booshehri, PhD
Affiliation: Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Services
Email: lgb19@uw.edu
Expertise: Complex system dynamics and social policy
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Andy Dannenberg, MD, MPH
Affiliation: Affiliate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Urban Design and Planning
Email: adannen@uw.edu
Expertise: Health impacts of urban design, land use, and transportation planning
Highlights: Recent publications; UW SPH feature on urban planning and public health; Making Healthy Places book
Jerome Dugan, PhD
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Health Services
Email: jad19@uw.edu
Expertise: Health insurance status and the organization of the healthcare system impacts on healthcare cost and quality
Highlights: Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodologies (PHEnOM) website; Northwest Asian Weekly interview
Amanda Fretts, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Email: amfretts@uw.edu
Expertise: Observational and interventional research to improve cardio-metabolic health of American Indians
Highlights: Recent publications
Michelle Garrison, PhD
Affiliation: Research Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Health Services
Email: garrison@uw.edu
Expertise: Interactions between sleep, media use, and physical activity
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; Sleep Health in Preschoolers (SHIP) study; Seattle Children's Research Institute video
Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Email: hgreenlee@fredhutch.org
Expertise: Lifestyle interventions; integrative therapies; clinical practice guidelines for cancer treatment
Highlights: Recent publications
Anjum Hajat, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Email: anjumh@uw.edu
Expertise: Social and environmental stressors and cardiovascular disease
Highlights: Recent publications; UW School of Public Health Close Up feature
Kristen Hammerback, MA
Affiliation: Research Scientist, Health Promotion Research Center
Email: khammerb@uw.edu
Expertise: Worksite health promotion
Highlights: Recent publications
Laura Harrington, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Assistant Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Email: Laura.B.Harrington@kp.org
Expertise: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; physical activity, sedentary behavior and VTE risk
Highlights: Kaiser Permanente feature
Paul Hebert, PhD
Affiliation: Research Associate Professor, Health Services
Email: paul.hebert2@va.gov
Expertise: Chronic disease with elderly and minority populations; social determinants of health disparities
Highlights: Recent publications
Phil Hurvitz, PhD
Affiliation: Research Scientist, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and Urban Form Lab
Email: phurvitz@uw.edu
Expertise: Objective measurement and analysis of the built environment; relationship between the built environment and health
Highlights: Recent publications; CV
Donna Johnson, PhD, MS
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Health Services
Email: djohn@uw.edu
Expertise: Pediatric nutrition; public health nutrition practice
Highlights: Recent publications; CNN article on impact of school nutrition standards on lunch quality
Jessica Jones-Smith, PhD, MPH, RD
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Health Services and Epidemiology
Email: jjoness@uw.edu
Expertise: Social, environmental, and economic determinants of obesity; natural experiments
Highlights: Recent publications; CV and biosketch; ASPPH article on her research on Native American casinos and obesity
Linda Ko, PhD, MPH, MS
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Health Services
Email: lindako@uw.edu
Expertise: Health communication interventions using new media; obesity prevention; health literacy and health disparity
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; UW School of Public Health feature on Together We STRIDE study
Johanna Lampe, PhD, MSc
Affiliation: Research Professor, Epidemiology
Email: jlampe@fhcrc.org
Expertise: Diet, gut microbial community and health; biomarkers of dietary exposure; controlled dietary studies in humans
Highlights: Recent publications; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center profile; Hutch Magazine article on microbiome
Alyson Littman, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Email: alyson@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Physical activity promotion in people with physical disabilities; evaluations of the VA weight management programs
Highlights: Recent publications and CV
Jay Mendoza, MD, MPH
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Email: Jason.Mendoza@seattlechildrens.org
Expertise: Community and school-based research on reducing sedentary activities and increasing physical activity
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; Seattle Children's Research Institute video; GeekWire article; KOMO News article
Steve Mooney, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Email: sjm2186@uw.edu
Expertise: Built environment influences on pedestrian injury and physical activity; epidemiologic methodology
Highlights: Recent publications and CV
Marian Neuhouser, PhD
Affiliation: Full Member, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cneter
Email: mneuhous@fredhutch.org
Expertise: Nutritional epidemiology, methods to improve diet and physical activity assessment
Highlights: Recent publications
Vanessa Oddo, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow, Health Services
Email: voddo@uw.edu
Expertise: Role of economic conditions and employment on obesity
Highlights: Recent publications and CV
India Ornelas, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Interim Chair, Health Services
Email: iornelas@uw.edu
Expertise: How social and cultural factors influence the health of Latino and American Indian communities
Highlights: Recent publications; Latino Center for Health (link); UW SPH feature on Yeego (Let’s go) Gardening! project
Jen Otten, PhD, MS, RD
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Email: jotten@uw.edu
Expertise: Food policy and food systems evaluation
Highlights: Recent publications; Seattle Minimum Wage Study (link); UW School of Public Health feature
Mary Podrabsky, MPH, RD
Affiliation: Research Coordinator, Clinical Instructor, Health Services
Email: marypod@uw.edu
Expertise: Public health nutrition practice
Highlights: CV; UW Center for Public Health Nutrition
Dori Rosenberg, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Assistant Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Email: rosenberg.d@ghc.org
Expertise: Health promotion among older adults; physical activity and sedentary behavior intervention and measurement
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; Taking Active Breaks from Sitting (TABS) study video; Kaiser Permanente feature on TABS
Brian Saelens, PhD
Affiliation: Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Email: brian.saelens@seattlechildrens.org
Expertise: Environmental influences of physical activity and eating
Highlights: Recent publications; Saelens Lab; Seattle Children's Research Institute video interview
Edmund Seto, PhD, MPH
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Email: eseto@uw.edu
Expertise: Quantification of environmental and occupational exposures; GIS, mathematical models, information technologies
Highlights: Recent publications and CV; research website
Pooja Tandon, MD
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Email: pooja@uw.edu
Expertise: Obesity prevention in early childhood; physical activity and nutrition environments in child care settings
Highlights: Recent publications; SPH PRiSM - Creating Healthy Regional Communities video lecture
Lina Walkinshaw
Affiliation: Research Coordinator, Center for Public Health Nutrition
Email: walkings@uw.org
Expertise: Food access and food security policy and program evaluation and research; primary data collection
Edwin Wong, PhD
Affiliation: Research Assistant Professor, Health Services
Email: eswong@uw.edu
Expertise: Economics of obesity; applied microeconometrics; impact of policy interventions on veterans' healthcare; cost-effectiveness analysis
Highlights: Recent publications
Anna Zamora-Kapoor, PhD
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Sociology
Email: anna.zamora-kapoor@wsu.edu
Expertise: population health, migration and settlement, wellbeing of families and households
Highlights: Recent publications