Recognition Winter 2026
- Brown awarded fellowship for wildfires-asthma project
- Jones recognized as top woman leader in Seattle, serves as panelist at evaluation conference
- Angerhofer gives 2 talks on firearm safety
- Krakauer shares methods research at women in data science conference
- Hickman gives 2 talks at GSA Annual Scientific Meeting
- Green gives invited presentation for American Heart Association
- McEvoy presents on risk factors for dementia at local retirement community
- Williamson leads research seminar for OSU Department of Statistics
- Brown presents at global evidence and implementation summit
Brown awarded fellowship for wildfires-asthma project
KPWHRI Assistant Investigator Meagan Brown, PhD, MPH, and collaborators from Kaiser Permanente Washington and Public Health–Seattle & King County (PHSKC) recently received an Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship from the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE). Led by CHanGE’s Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center, the fellowship provides training and technical assistance to teams of 2 to 3 researchers and public health practitioners who propose a specific project that uses implementation science methods in a climate and health context.
The 18-month project led by Brown and her collaborators — Raj Sundar, MD, a Kaiser Permanente Washington physician and district medical director, and Bradley Kramer, PhD, MPA, a senior program manager at PHSKC — will explore practical, primary care-based strategies for reducing the impact of wildfires on people with asthma.
Jones recognized as top woman leader in Seattle, serves as panelist at evaluation conference
In December, Maggie Jones, MPH, director of KPWHRI’s Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), was among the Top 50 Women Leaders of Seattle for 2025 named by Women We Admire, a professional network with chapters nationwide. The recognition highlighted her more than 20 years of experience leading diverse evaluation projects to help communities and organizations improve health.
Jones also served on a panel at the American Evaluation Association 2025 Evaluation Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, in November. She joined panelists from Kaiser Permanente Community Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to discuss benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from their experiences with emergent evaluation support. Their talk was titled “From Reactive to Proactive: How ‘Stand-by’ Evaluators Can Enhance Organizational Learning and Adaptability.”
Angerhofer gives 2 talks on firearm safety
KPWHRI Associate Investigator Julie Angerhofer, PhD, MPH, gave 2 presentations in December that focused on strategies for preventing firearm harm and suicide. In a webinar for the Washington Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics titled “From Healing to Prevention: Firearm Safety and Trauma-Informed Pediatric Care,” Angerhofer discussed ways to address firearm safety and trauma while supporting health equity. Her second talk focused on supporting firearm suicide prevention in health care settings for Sutter Health Virtual Grand Rounds.
Krakauer shares methods research at women in data science conference
In November, KPWHRI Collaborative Biostatistician Chloe Krakauer, PhD, presented at the American Statistical Association’s 2025 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference. Titled “Comparing Regression Coefficient Estimators with Interval-Censored Exposure Data,” Krakauer’s talk described methodological research she is leading as part of the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) Study.
Hickman gives 2 talks at GSA Annual Scientific Meeting
KPWHRI Senior Investigator and Director of Investigative Science Susan Hickman, PhD, gave 2 presentations at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston in November. Hickman’s first talk, titled “Outcomes of a Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial of an Advance Care Planning (ACP) Program in Nursing Homes,” shared results from her recent embedded clinical trial that evaluated implementation of the ACP Specialist Program in 132 nursing homes. In her second talk, titled “Take the NEXT STEP: Practical Tools and Strategies for Clinical Trials Work in Nursing Homes,” Hickman presented insights from the Methods, Measures, and Data Core of NEXT STEPs, a large-scale (U24) project funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Green gives invited presentation for American Heart Association
KPWHRI Senior Investigator Beverly Green, MD, MPH, gave an invited talk on out-of-clinic blood pressure measurement in November at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2025 in New Orleans. Green, who is also a Kaiser Permanente Washington family physician, presented on tools for self-measurement of blood pressure and ways to optimize out-of-clinic blood pressure management in a presentation titled “BP Monitoring and Drug Titration — Does it work? How do we do it?”
McEvoy presents on risk factors for dementia at local retirement community
In October, KPWHRI Senior Investigator Linda McEvoy, PhD, gave an invited talk titled “Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia” at University House Wallingford, a retirement community in Seattle that offers independent and assisted living.
Williamson leads research seminar for OSU Department of Statistics
KPWHRI Associate Biostatistics Investigator Brian Williamson, PhD, led a research seminar in October for the Oregon State University Department of Statistics. Titled “Inference for Model-Agnostic Longitudinal Variable Importance,” the seminar described novel procedures for estimating risk when complex machine learning tools are used in risk prediction.
Brown presents at global evidence and implementation summit
In October, KPWHRI Assistant Investigator Meagan Brown, PhD, MPH, presented at the 2025 Evidence & Implementation Summit in Melbourne, Australia. Brown’s talk — titled “Building a Learning Health System for Health-Related Social Needs in an Integrated Health Care System in the United States” — shared insights from her experience leading social health research as director of Kaiser Permanente’s Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET) and as a partner in KPWHRI’s Center for Accelerating Care Transformation (ACTCenter).
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