University of Washington
Biomedical and Health Informatics
Box 354943
University of Washington
Seattle,
WA
USA
98195
ller@u.washington.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Sherrilynne Fuller currently serves as Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine; Professor, Information School; Adjunct Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health; and Senior Advisor to the Dean, University Libraries all at the University of Washington, Seattle Washington. She has a BA degree in Biology, a Master's in Library Science from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California.
Fuller's research areas include: strategies for improving health information systems and technologies for low-resource environments across the world with a particular focus on capacity building in Universities in resource-constrained countries; developing new approaches to represent and map the results of scientific research in support of knowledge discovery; design and evaluation of health information systems to support decision making at the place and time of need; and integrated health sciences information systems design with a primary focus on human factors. She has led the development of the Global Partner in Public Health Informatics a group of individuals and organizations working together to improve health in low resource settings through appropriate application of information and communications technologies and capacity building.