4th Quarter 2015

A 2015 article from Research on Social Work Practice ranked the following University of Washington School of Social Work faculty among the top 25 women engaged in social work research: Betsy Wells, Kelly Cue Davis, Diane Morrison, Taryn Lindhorst, Paula Nurius and IWRI’s Cynthia Pearson. The article also reports that the UW School of Social…

The Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health is an extraordinary opportunity to train early career scholars in LGBT health research.
The Summer Institute provides interdisciplinary training in the theoretical and methodological foundations of how to best conduct research with sexual and gender minority populations. The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health, as well as the Institute for…

Melissa Watkinson, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has been selected as the first Hershman Marine Policy Fellow from the University of Washington Bothell. Melissa’s passion for her community and the Pacific Northwest led her to complete her Bachelor of Arts in Global studies and Society, Ethics and Behavior in 2011 and her…

Research Scientist and Program Manager of the Healthy Hearts, Healthy Minds Program, Rachelle McCarty, recently published a journal article entitled “Frequent ED utilizers: A case management program to address patient needs” in the September 2015 issue of Nursing Management. Rachelle assessed the emergency department (ED) case management program at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (PRMCE)….

Please welcome Anita Rocha to IWRI. Anita recently joined the IWRI family as a data manager. She hails from just across the UW campus where she worked as a statistical programmer and data manager for the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Her consulting experience in data analytics and the management realm is varied,…

I am very sad to have left all the great people and friends at IWRI. I really had fun working with some of the best folks I’ve had a chance to spend time with. I learned an incredible amount, and only a small percentage of that had to do with research. Spousal duty and marital…

Polly Olsen (Yakama Nation) recently departed from the University of Washington after nearly 20 years of dedicated service. She is now Executive Director for the Association of American Indian Physicians in Oklahoma City. During her time at the UW, she served in leadership positions such as Director of the UW Native American Center of Excellence…

Te torino haere whakamua, whakamuri (At the same time the spiral is going forward, it is going back) Central to the Māori culture, the koru symbol is based on the unfurling fern frond of the silver fern native to Aotearoa (New Zealand). The circular shape of the koru represents growth and new life while the…

The third meeting of the Indigenous Research Collaborative to End Violence took place Sept. 14-15, 2015 at the Talaris Center near the Univ. of Washington campus in Seattle. Meeting attendees were primarily Indigenous women researchers. They were academics, professors, community leaders and experts with invaluable insights and expertise, and they hailed from all over: from…

Dr. Cynthia Pearson, Dr. Myra Parker (Mandan and Hidatsa), Dr. Celia Fisher, and Caitlin Donald (Osage Nation and The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma) are pleased to announce that ETHICS – Ethics Training for Health in Indigenous Communities study was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1R01HD082181; 9/2014…