People

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

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Layla Booshehri, PhD
Affiliation:      Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Services

Email:            lgb19@uw.edu
Expertise:      Complex system dynamics and social policy
Highlights:  

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

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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

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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 profileHutch 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

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Mary Podrabsky, MPH, RD
Affiliation:       Research Coordinator, Clinical Instructor, Health Services

Email:             marypod@uw.edu
Expertise:      Public health nutrition practice
Highlights:     CVUW 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

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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

 

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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

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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

 

Yingqi Zhao, PhD
Affiliation:      Assistant Member, Biostatistics and Biomathematics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Email:            yqzhao@fredhutch.org
Expertise:      Personalized medicine, dynamic treatment regimes, observational studies, machine learning
Highlights:     CV; research website