Research Assistants

Kate Cole
Research assistant for a NLM-funded research project studying the use of machine translation technology for producing translations of health promotion materials. Ms. Cole is a first-year MPH student in the Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program at the UW School of Public Health. She received a B.A. in Women’s Studies and Peace and Justice Studies at Tufts University. Prior to starting at UW, she worked in Somerville, Massachusetts, as a counselor at a residential shelter for teen mothers and their children, and as a volunteer coordinator with a neighborhood revitalization organization.

Rahul Mode
Rahul, a graduate student in the Masters in Information Management program at the University of Washington Information School, is providing software engineering support for the REACH project, a randomized trial of communication methods between public health agencies and health care providers. Rahul holds a BS in Computer science from the University of Pune, India and previously worked at VMware.

Claire Rainey
Research Assistant supporting project management with both the Public Health Training Center and the Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center. Ms. Rainey is currently a first-year MPH student in the Department of Epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health. She received a B.A. in Biological Sciences and a B.A. in History from the University of Missouri, Columbia. For the past six years she has been working for local public health agencies in Mid-Missouri, primarily in public health emergency preparedness.

Katherine Sabourin
Research Assistant supporting project management with both the Public Health Training Center and the Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center. Ms. Sabourin is currently a second-year MPH student in the Department of Epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health. She received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Before beginning her graduate studies she worked as a research assistant in a genetics lab studying the regulation of flagellar motility. She also spent 6 months in Blantyre, Malawi as a research assistant at the Malaria Alert Centre.