Douglas Shenson
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Research Summary
Dr. Shenson is Associate Clinical Professor, Yale School of Public Health, Associate Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Medicine, and Associate Director, Clinical Preventive Services, at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Shenson also directs Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC), a nonprofit agency dedicated to expanding thepopulation-wide use of disease prevention services. As part of his workat SPARC, Dr. Shenson leads the Vote & Vax program, which is developing and testing anational strategy to provide adult and child vaccinations at or near polling places on Election Day. Dr. Shenson has led several research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to the provision ofvaccinations and cancer screening to older Americans. He is a co-founderof the medical humanitarian organization, Doctors of the World USA (now HealthRight International), 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.
Extensive Research Description
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.
Research Interests
Humanities; Diseases; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Health Care
Public Health Interests
Aging; Bioethics; Cancer; Community Health; Preparedness; Epidemiology Methods; Ethics; Global Health; Health Care Management; Health Policy; History of Medicine and Science; HIV/AIDS; Influenza; Community Engagement; Vaccines; Health Equity, Disparities, Social Determinants and Justice; Health Systems Reform
Selected Publications
- Polling places, pharmacies, and public health: Vote & Vax 2012.Shenson D, Moore RT, Benson W, Anderson LA. Polling places, pharmacies, and public health: Vote & Vax 2012. American Journal Of Public Health 2015, 105:e12-5.
- Clinical and community delivery systems for preventive care: an integration framework.Krist AH, Shenson D, Woolf SH, Bradley C, Liaw WR, Rothemich SF, Slonim A, Benson W, Anderson LA. Clinical and community delivery systems for preventive care: an integration framework. American Journal Of Preventive Medicine 2013, 45:508-16.
- Developing an integrated strategy to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in the delivery of clinical preventive services for older Americans.Shenson D, Adams M, Bolen J, Wooten K, Clough J, Giles WH, Anderson L. Developing an integrated strategy to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in the delivery of clinical preventive services for older Americans. American Journal Of Public Health 2012, 102:e44-50.
- Vaccinations and preventive screening services for older adults: opportunities and challenges in the USA.Shenson D, Anderson L, Slonim A, Benson W. Vaccinations and preventive screening services for older adults: opportunities and challenges in the USA. Perspectives In Public Health 2012, 132:165-70.
- Routine checkups don't ensure that seniors get preventive services.Shenson D, Adams M, Bolen J, Anderson L. Routine checkups don't ensure that seniors get preventive services. The Journal Of Family Practice 2011, 60:E1-E10.
- Expanding the delivery of clinical preventive services through community collaboration: the SPARC model.Shenson D, Benson W, Harris AC. Expanding the delivery of clinical preventive services through community collaboration: the SPARC model. Preventing Chronic Disease 2008, 5:A20.
- Putting prevention in its place: the shift from clinic to community.Shenson D. Putting prevention in its place: the shift from clinic to community. Health Affairs (Project Hope) 2006, 25:1012-5.