Valentina Petrova received a MAIS from the Jackson School of International Studies, and an MPA from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington. Prior to her studies at UW, Petrova earned a BA in both Political Science, and Communication with an emphasis in print/broadcast journalism at Pacific Lutheran University. Currently, Petrova provides qualitative data analysis software consulting services to researchers at her consulting firm, QDA Consulting. Petrova also works as a Qualitative Team Lead at VA Puget Sound Health Care System where she leads qualitative teams through research cycles including proposal writing, data collection, coding, analysis, and findings dissemination. Her work also includes training primary investigators and other research staff on data collection (grounded interviewing style) and analysis (various ATLAS.ti 8 topics).
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Leverso, John
John Leverso is an Assistant Professor at Whitman College in the Department of Sociology. Leverso completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Washington in 2020. From 2014-2019, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Leverso’s research combines sociological and criminological perspectives to investigate street gang culture, specifically: gangs in online settings, interaction rituals, solidarity and hyper-surveillance, gangs in the life course, and the geographical correlates of street gangs.
Barrington, Wendy
Wendy Barrington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing in the School of Nursing, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. The focus of Barrington’s research is to evaluate to what degree social position, structures, and systems perpetuate cancer health disparities via stress, obesity, and related behaviors. Her research falls within two main schema: promoting healthy communities and racial disparities in clinical outcomes. Barrington uses advanced methods including multilevel modeling and causal mediation analyses to explicate these relationships as well as community-engaged research to promote the health of vulnerable communities. Barrington is also active within the School of Nursing and the broader UW Health Sciences to facilitate an institutional culture that fosters equity, diversity, and inclusion among students, staff, and faculty.
Takeuchi, David
David Takeuchi is a sociologist with postdoctoral experience in epidemiology and health services research. He has extensive research experience in different community and institutional settings and been a key investigator of some of the largest studies of different racial and ethnic groups. He has had extensive experience in research design, sampling strategies for diverse populations, and data analyses using different statistical methods. Professor Takeuchi has written extensively on issues related to the unequal distribution of health and illness in society, particularly around race, ethnic, and socio-economic status (SES). He is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, an honor society of the nation’s top sociologists, and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, an honor society of researchers who do work related to social work issues. He has received the Legacy Award from the Family Research Consortium for his research and mentoring and the Innovations Award from the National Center on Health and Health Disparities for his research contributions. In 2011, he received the UW Marsha Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award. He is also a recipient of the Leonard Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions of the Sociological Study of Health from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the ASA Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Asian American Communities.
Yu, Yeon Jung
Yeon Jung Yu is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University. As a cultural and medical anthropologist with a background in Public Health, Women-Gender studies, and East Asian studies, Dr. Yu’s research interests lie in social networks, sex work, HIV/AIDS, drug use, and social stigma. A sampling of her current projects include: social networks of female sex workers, inequalities in the webcam modeling industry, physical and mental health of trafficked women in the sex trade, and recreational drug use culture among college students.
Dr. Yu earned her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, and is currently writing a book based on her dissertation with the working title Enmeshed: Social Networks and the Integration of Female Sex Workers in Post-Socialist China. Her work is focused on extensive field research on “hidden” rural-to-urban migrant women working in the sex trade in contemporary China.
Duarte, Horacio
Dr. Horacio Duarte graduated from Harvard College, where he studied biological anthropology and developed an interest in global health and infectious diseases. After college, he pursued his MD at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. During that time, he spent a year at the National Institutes of Health as a clinical research training program fellow, studying cardio-metabolic disease in HIV-infected adults, as well as treatment adherence in pediatric HIV patients in Latin America. In July 2011, he began his pediatric residency training at the University of Washington, where he also completed his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship. One of Dr. Duarte’s main research interests is using mathematical modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis to improve health policy and resource allocation decisions in low- and middle-income countries, with a current focus on HIV-related health outcomes.
Tajima, Emiko
Associate Professor Emiko A. Tajima’s scholarship focuses on the problem of interpersonal violence, seeking to identify points of intersection, cross-systems issues and to build knowledge regarding specialized populations to improve policies and service provision for victims and their children. Dr. Tajima is the executive director of Partners for Our Children.
Dr. Tajima is committed to enhancing violence prevention and intervention, particularly for marginalized groups such as racial and ethnic minorities and immigrant and refugee populations. Her approach to these issues is shaped by her interdisciplinary background, which includes a BA in sociology, MS in criminology and PhD in social work, as well as direct service experience with victims of family violence.
Her scholarship is also informed by her practice background as a legal advocate for victims of domestic violence in family court, where she helped clients navigate across systems to obtain mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, housing, immigration assistance and many other social services.
Dr. Tajima joined the School of Social Work faculty in 1999. She served as the School’s MSW program director from 2006 to 2011 and as the associate dean for academic affairs from 2011 to 2017.
Almquist, Zack W.
Zack W. Almquist is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington, where he also holds affiliation with CSDE and Urban@UW. From 2018-2020 he was a Research Scientist in the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook, Inc; from 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University; and from 2013-2018 he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical, computational, and statistical methodology to better understand the problems and theories of social networks analysis, demography, education, homelessness, and environmental action and governance. In the field of Demography Dr. Almquist’s research has been published in journals such as: Demographic Research, Mathematical Population Studies, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Geographic Analysis, and The Journal of Gerontology: Series B.
Kenworthy, Nora
Nora Kenworthy is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology. At UW Bothell, she coordinates the undergraduate Minor in Global Health. Her research explores the politics of global health governance, the sociopolitical impacts of HIV initiatives in southern Africa, and the changing roles of philanthrocapitalism and corporations in shaping global health programming. Kenworthy is the author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (2017, Vanderbilt University Press). She received her PhD and MA from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and her BA from Williams College.
Schaffnit, Susan
Susan Schaffnit is an applied anthropologist and Researcher in Demography at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Schaffnit’s research is interdisciplinary, pulling on methods and theory from evolutionary anthropology, demography, and population health science. At the core of her work is a desire to understand variation in and relationships between human health, family structures, and life transitions into marriages, parenthood, and adulthood. She currently conducts research on early marriage, women’s fertility and health in Tanzania, Bangladesh, and India.
Dr. Schaffnit earned her PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).