Wendy Nakatsukasa-Ono, MPH

Vice President
Cardea Services
N/A
1809 Seventh Avenue, Suite 600
Seattle, WA
USA 98101
wono@cardeaservices.org

Biographical Sketch:
1988-1992 -- Director of Research and Development, Minnesota Institute of Public Health, Anoka, MN 1992-1994 -- Senior Associate, Emeritus Corporation, St. Paul, MN 1994-1995 -- Community Assessment Coordinator, Public Health—Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA 1995-present -- Community Health Planner, Center for MultiCultural Health, Seattle, WA 1999-2013 -- Program Director, Cardea, Seattle, WA 2013-present -- Vice President, Cardea, Seattle, WA Manage the Region X STD-related Reproductive Health Training and Technical Assistance Project, a CDC-funded initiative to state, local and tribal STD and Title X Family Planning programs; and other stakeholders Managed the Region X Infertility Prevention Project, a CDC-funded initiative to prevent STD-related infertility and other complications of pelvic inflammatory disease and to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in gonorrhea and chlamydia. Managed and contributed to a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research, evaluation, organizational capacity-building and training projects including a CDC-funded project to integrate HIV prevention into family planning services; and three HHS--Office of Population Affairs-funded projects to: 1) increase male involvement in family planning and reproductive health services, 2) improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health services to individuals from culturally diverse communities, and 3) explore racial/ethnic differences and disparities in chlamydia Numerous presentations at scientific and other meetings