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Dr. Angela G. Spencer is a Research Scientist with the Global Cardiovascular Health Program at the University of Washington Department of Global Health, School of Medicine. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the United States. Dr. Spencer uses multiple methods to implement and scale up evidence-based practices in community and healthcare settings. Over the past decade, she co-designed and collaborated on community-based research to control infectious disease in rural Northern Peru. She joined UW in 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow with the American Heart Association-funded Global to Rural Innovation Network to Adapt Evidence- Based Cardiovascular Interventions to Context (GROW-Rural) project, applying human-centered design and community-based participatory methods to adapt cardiovascular care innovations from rural regions of other countries for healthcare settings in the rural western United States.
Dr. Spencer now serves as a Research Scientist with GROW-Rural and Principal Investigator for the Advancing Community Outreach, Research, and Native Solutions (ACORNS) for Healthy Hearts project. Her research interests include how the structure of health systems and community networks influence peoples’ health, and how to design or adapt evidence-based health care practices for American Indian, Alaska Native, and rural populations.
- PhD, Oregon Health & Science University - Portland State University School of Public Health
- Graduate Certificate in Public Health (GCPH), Oregon Health & Science University
- MBA, Southern Oregon University
- BA, Western Colorado State University
- Spanish
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- One Health
- Operations Research
- Qualitative Research and Methods
- Quality Improvement
- Social Determinants of Health
Beam M, Spencer A, Fernandez L, Atto R, Muro C, Vilchez P, Gamboa R, Olaya S, Ayvar V, Gonzalez AE, Garcia HH, O'Neal SE, for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. (2018). Barriers to Participation in a Community-Based Program to Control Transmission of Taenia solium in Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 98(6):1748-1754. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0929. PMID: 29663901
Beam M, Spencer AG, Atto R, Camizan R, Vilchez P, Muro C, Gamboa R, Pray I, Garvey B, Fernandez L, Garcia HH, O'Neal SE, for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. (2019). To Really Know the Disease: Creating a Participatory Community Education Workshop about Taenia solium Focused on Physical, Economic, and Epidemiologic Evidence. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 100(6):1490-1493. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0939. PMID: 30938282
Fernandez L, Gamboa R, Vilchez P, Pray I, Beam M, Garvey B, Spencer A, Atto R, Muro C, Moyano LM, Garcia HH, O'Neal SE, for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. (2019). Evaluating Urban Taenaisis as a Threat to Cysticercosis Elimination in Northern Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 100(1):140-142. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0767. PMID: 30457096
Gubrud P, Spencer AG, Wagner L. From Start-up to Sustainability: A Decade of Collaboration to Shape the Future of Nursing. (2017). Nurs Educ Perspect. 38(5):225-232. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000212. PMID: 28817513.
Gaines BC, Spencer AG. (2013). Developing the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education: the back story. J Prof Nurs. 29(4):197-202. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.05.001. PMID: 23910920.