University of Washington
Center for Public Health Informatics
35-4943
School of Public Health, University of Washington
Seattle,
WA
USA
98105
Email:
sfuller@u.washington.edu
Biographical Sketch:
University of Washington positions held (Selected):
2005-Present, Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics, School of Public Health
2001-Present, Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine
2001-Present, Professor (Adjunct), Department of Health Services, School of Public Health
2001-Present, Professor, Information School
1988-2008 -- Director, Health Sciences Libraries
Fuller 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
Her research includes strategies for improving health information systems and technologies to 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.
uller was the founding head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine and served for twenty years as the Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Associate Dean of Libraries.
Fuller was a member of the President's (White House) Information Technology Advisory Committee (1997-2002), the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and served on the Boards of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Medical Library Association.
She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Medical Library Association.