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M.
Kathryn
Stewart, MD, MPH Associate Professor |
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| Dr. Stewart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UAMS COPH as well as the Director of the COPH Office of Community-Based Public Health (OCBPH). She received her MD at UAMS and completed her Preventive Medicine residency and MPH degree at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her current areas of focus include applying and teaching community-based participatory approaches to research and program efforts, and interventions to address racial and ethnic health disparities. She brings to her work as a community-based participatory researcher, a valuable combination of expertise in health policy; program design and evaluation; and survey research. Much of her experience has been gained working with communities in the Mississippi River Delta region and Bangladesh, but also in assisting with national surveys in Namibia, the Philippines, and Ethiopia. Dr. Stewart teaches doctoral courses on Community-Based Program Design and Evaluation for the college, is a co-founder of the UAMS Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Taskforce, and oversees a Kellogg funded initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities through institutional partnerships with communities. She has over 19 years experience in public health, program development, and health services research, with more than 5 years experience in community-based participatory research. She served as the director of the Arkansas Southern Rural Access Program, an 8 year initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve rural access to primary health care. Her research has included evaluations of Medicaid-funded waivers and programs; studies of service utilization and access to care for family planning, and home and community-based services; and research on the process of community participation in research. She recently co-organized a photography exhibit at the COPH on the war in Iraq to educate the public about the public health impact of war. | |
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