{"id":55167,"date":"2017-01-18T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55167"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:27:35","slug":"health-services-researcher-tetine-sentell-chosen-as-a-fulbright-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/18\/health-services-researcher-tetine-sentell-chosen-as-a-fulbright-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Health services researcher Tetine Sentell chosen as a Fulbright specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa researcher Tetine Sentell<\/a> has been selected as a Fulbright specialist by the J. William Fulbright Council for International Exchange of Scholars. An associate professor in the Office of Public Health Studies<\/a> at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work<\/a>, Sentell will collaborate with public health faculty at the University of Medicine in Tirana<\/a>, Albania.<\/p>\n

Albania is small country with a population of 2.8 million on the Balkan Peninsula. In the 40 years following World War II<\/abbr>, Albania was isolated from the rest of Europe under repressive communist rule. Starting in the 1980s, it slowly emerged from isolation and transitioned from communism to a democracy and market economy. The country of Albania has recently initiated an innovative primary healthcare based program called Si Je?<\/em> (How are you?). This important public health program allows all Albanians aged 35–70 years to receive a once a year free basic health examination at their local health center. This program is a major priority of the Albanian Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

Researching Albania’s healthcare management system<\/h2>\n

Sentell will provide expertise in two areas. First, she will help refine a new program in healthcare management at the university. Their mission is to transform existing structures and capacities into a National Center of Excellence in the field. Sentell, a Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Recipient, will help peer-review this program and help develop courses to meet these goals.<\/p>\n

Second, the University of Tirana School of Public Health together with Institute of Public Health has been tasked with evaluating the Si Je?<\/em> program. Sentell will help with this evaluation to optimize the evaluation of the healthcare system in Albania. Sentell has an extensive in background in health services research using large, population-based survey data, administrative clinical data and qualitative data from in-depth interviews as well as scholarship focused on the elimination of pervasive health inequities due to factors such as race\/ethnicity. These issues are of high relevance to the Albanian population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tetine Sentell will collaborate with public health faculty at the University of Medicine in Tirana, Albania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,165,134,241,449,596,9],"class_list":["post-55167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-health","tag-international","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t