Newswise — Karen McDonnell, Ph.D., associate professor of Prevention and Community Health in GW’s School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), was awarded the 2009 ASPH/Pfizer Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award at the ASPH Annual Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 7. The award recognizes graduate public health faculty members from full ASPH-member, CEPH-accredited schools of public health who are notable for their teaching, practice and research excellence.
“I am deeply honored to receive an award that recognizes the work I have done early in my career,” said Dr. McDonnell. “I have been fortunate to be surrounded by great mentors, faculty and students who have helped shape my career and given me the opportunity to have a positive impact on the people and community around me.”
At GW SPHHS, Dr. McDonnell teaches M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. students in program evaluation, health behavior and maternal and child health. She received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and two review chapters on evaluation and case studies of national programs designed to enhance the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, including low-income and immigrant populations.
Dr. McDonnell serves as a continuing chair of SPHHS’s Curriculum Committee and The George Washington University’s Committee on the Status of Women in addition to serving on the leadership of the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health and the ASPH MCH Council.
Dr. McDonnell has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator or director of local and national evaluation research teams involving multi-site projects. She has collaborated with her students, colleagues and community groups on a number of disparity-related projects and has recently been awarded a project from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate etiological frameworks and community capacity relating to gender-based violence among immigrant Latinos and is a co-investigator on an RWJF funded Pioneering project to develop and assess new techniques in exer-gaming to increase physical activity among youth.
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