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Jack Thompson, MSW

Bio and contact information for NWCPHP faculty member Jack Thompson, MSW.

Jack ThompsonFaculty

Email: jackt@u.washington.edu

 

Jack Thompson provides content expertise in the area of public health leadership, management, and accreditation. He is a former Director at NWCPHP (serving from 1999–2008), and continues to work with the Center in a variety of activities. Jack  is also one of three moderators for Hot Topics in Practice, a monthly webinar, an instructor for the Public Health Leadership Institute and Summer Institute for Public Health Practice, and provides Accreditation training and coaching services for public health departments in our six-state region.

Areas of Expertise

  • Public health practice leadership, management, and policy
  • Accreditation (teaching and coaching)
  • Linking undergraduate and graduate academic programs with work at NWCPHP

Jack is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and has been on the faculty here since 1994. He has been the Principal Investigator on the Northwest Center for Public Health Preparedness Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Co-Principal Investigator for the Public Health Training Center, supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration.

He is also on the boards of the Washington State Public Health Association and the Children's Alliance.