Douglas Shenson, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.S
Associate Clinical Professor,
Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Dr. Shenson is Associate Director, Clinical Preventive Services, at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Shenson also directs Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit agency dedicated to expanding the population-wide use of disease prevention services. As part of his work at SPARC, Dr. Shenson leads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national Vote and Vax program, which is developing and testing a national strategy to provide influenza vaccinations at polling places. Dr. Shenson is working on research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to track the delivery of vaccinations and cancer screening to older Americans. He is co-founder of the medical humanitarian organization, Doctors of the World USA, and founder of the Human Rights Clinic at Montefiore Medical Center, the first clinic in New York City to attend exclusively to the documentation and service needs of survivors of torture.
Education
M.S. in Health Care Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 2001
M.D., Tulane University School of Medicine, 1985
M.P.H., Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1985
M.A. in Human Sciences, Oxford University, 1985
Courses Taught
EPH 500b Epidemiology and Public Health
Awards and Honors
Aetna Susan B. Anthony Award for Excellence in Research on Older Women and Public Health, American Public Health Association
National Health and Human Rights Leadership Award, Doctors of the World USA
Hesselbein Fellowship Award, Entrepreneurial Performance and Community Innovation, Peter Drucker Foundation
Visiting Scholar, Hastings Center for the Study of Biomedical Ethics
Professional Services
Advisory Board, Doctors of the World USA
Committee on Influenza Vaccine Assurance Strategies, CDC, 2004-2005.
Current Research Projects
Community-based Models for Increasing the Population-wide Delivery of Clinical Preventive Services; Development and Tracking of a Composite Measure for the Delivery of Routine Clinical Preventive Services using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; and Analysis of the Role of the Medical Checkup in Reaching Population-wide Targets for Preventive Service Delivery.
Yale Affiliations
Associate Director, Clinical Preventive Services, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center
Selected Publications
Shenson, D., Benson, B., and Harris, A. Expanding the Delivery of Preventive Services through Community Collaboration: The SPARC Model. Preventing Chronic Disease, in press.
Shenson, D., Bolen, J., and Adams, M. Receipt of Preventive Services by Elders Based on Composite Measures, 1997-2004. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 32(1):11-18, 2007.
Shenson, D. Putting Prevention in Its Place: The Shift from Clinic to Community. Health Affairs 25(4): 1012-1015, 2006.
Shenson, D., Dimartino, D., Bolen, J., Campbell, M., Liu, P., and Singleton, J. Validation of Self-reported Pneumococcal Vaccination in Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys: Experience from the Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC) Program. Vaccine 23(8):1015-1020, 2005.
Shenson, D., Cassarino, L., DiMartino, D., Marantz, P., Bolen, J., Good, B., and Alderman, M. Improving Access to Mammograms through Community-Based Influenza Clinics: A Quasi-Experimental Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 20(2): 97-102, 2001.
For a further list of Dr. Shenson’s publications, please see PubMed.
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