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Spotlight: Sharon Laing puts community first, and the rest follows
If there is one person you can always count on to be out in the community seeking opportunities for growth, change and improvement, it is...
Sharon Laing
Feb 31 min read
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Simply Something I Do
Dr. Sharon Laing, associate professor in the School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, is talking about the unpretentious way she ...
Sharon Laing
Aug 27, 20241 min read
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2023 American Public Health Association, Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentor Award
Every year, the American Public Health Association honors excellence in public health leadership and innovation, from state and local...
Sharon Laing
May 25, 20241 min read
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2024 University of Washington Health Sciences, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award
Dr. Sharon Laing is a nationally recognized faculty member who has expertise in community-engaged and partnered work, specific to cancer...
Sharon Laing
May 25, 20241 min read
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Impacting Lives: Thoughtful Healthcare Services Research
From the perspective of a health psychologist's lens, Dr. Sharon Laing engages in health services and healthcare systems research...
Sharon Laing
May 24, 20241 min read
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2022 UWT Distinguished Community Engagement Award
The Distinguished Community Engagement Award was created in 2013. Given annually, the award recognizes the important and innovative...
Sharon Laing
May 30, 20221 min read
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Six new members named to Population Health Initiative executive council
Six new faculty members have been named to the 30-member Population Health Initiative executive council by President Ana Mari Cauce.
Sharon Laing
Dec 28, 20211 min read
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Remembering 2020: A UW Time Capsule
From a pandemic to economic fallout to a reckoning over race and policing in the United States, 2020 is sure to be remembered as a year...
Sharon Laing
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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The UW turned 2020 into a course. You’re invited to check it out
No one is immune to the vicissitudes of 2020. Not even top academic leaders. Through hours of Zoom meetings, University of Washington...
Sharon Laing
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year, KUOW - How a UW course captured the im
In this episode of Speakers Forum, we hear about what it was like to guide students through this process from some of the professors who...
Sharon Laing
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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Dual Pandemics: Finding Pathways to Heal and Repair
Dr. Sharon S. Laing talks through how the two most pressing pandemics of 2020 — racism and COVID-19 — are connected. She talks through...
Sharon Laing
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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2020 UW Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor (Award)
Each year, Undergraduate Research Symposium presenters are given an opportunity to nominate their mentor for the Research Mentor Award....
Sharon Laing
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Racism is a Public Health Crisis (Podcast)
On this episode of the podcast we talk about the social determinants of health with UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Sharon Laing and UW...
Sharon Laing
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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The Mentor (UWT News Article)
Four of Assistant Professor Sharon Laing's students were recognized this past spring at the University of Washington Undergraduate...
Sharon Laing
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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Three Students Honored as Mary Gates Research Scholars (UWT News Article)
Myai Nguyen, Anna Howard and Casey Wagner will each receive $5,000 to support their work on community health centers and FBI files.
Sharon Laing
Apr 25, 20201 min read
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The 2019 meeting of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) in Chicago
Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Laing and Healthcare Leadership majors Jason Muncy and Peter L. Wangigi! Their poster, just presented at the 2
Sharon Laing
Mar 5, 20191 min read
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An App a Day (UWT News Article)
Assistant Professor Sharon Laing wants to use apps to connect low-income patients to health care.
Sharon Laing
Jan 20, 20171 min read
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Better Mental Health Can be At Your Fingertips (Op-Ed)
In Pierce County, depression is an ever-present challenge. Recent data suggest that 17 percent of adults and 38 percent of children here ...
Sharon Laing
Dec 21, 20161 min read
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