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Mary C. White, RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Community Health Systems
2 Koret Way, #N-511R
San Francisco, CA 94143-0608
Telephone: (415) 476-5213 Fax: (415) 476-6042
Email: mary.white@nursing.ucsf.edu
My research focuses on improving the health care and health care outcomes of incarcerated populations and those at high risk for incarceration, such as the homeless, injection drug users, the severely mentally ill and new/undocumented immigrants. There are considerable barriers to studying incarcerated populations, and yet this population is at great risk for adverse outcomes and complications of failed therapeutic regimens.
Much of my research has been in infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis, HIV, and hepatitis C, but also includes health promotion and disease prevention and health services access and use in these populations. The goal of this research is to identify factors that influence outcomes -- including system, provider, and individual characteristics -- and to test interventions to affect change and improve health and social outcomes in this population.
This work includes collaborations with faculty in departments across the UCSF campus and in universities outside the UC system, close working relationships with medical and nursing personnel and officials in San Francisco and Santa Clara county jails and the California Department of Corrections, and work with community-based organizations.
I direct the SHIP (Studies on the Health of Incarcerated Populations) program, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team with over a decade of experience in research, teaching, clinical expertise and mentorship with scholars and students interested in this area of study.
U01 AI51315-01 NIH/NIAID
Clinical Trial of Short Course Rifampin vs. INH for LTBI in Jail
Studies with other collaborators include:
R01 DA13892 NIH / NIDA (Co-PI; J. Tulsky, PI)
A Clinical Trial of DOT for HAART in jailed drug users
R01 NR05350 NIH / NINR (Co-PI; L. Chafetz, PI)
Clinical Trial of Wellness Training for the Mentally Ill
Education and Training projects with other collaborators include:
D09 HP 00570 HRSA (Faculty; S. Rankin, Project Director)
Primary Care of High-Risk Populations: PrimeRISK Program
Formal coursework includes Introduction to Epidemiology (E&B190); Prison Health (M170.01A); Care of High Risk Populations (N217A). Informal teaching includes research residencies for pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars interested in the study of health issues of incarcerated adults.
American Public Health Association, American College of Epidemiology, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, International Union against TB and Lung Disease, American Correctional Health Services Association
Editorial Board of Journal of Correctional Health Care
Book and Monograph Publications Board, American Public Health Association
Working Committee and Discharge Planning Section Team Leader, "Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities", Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fellow, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Honorary life membership, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Member, Sigma Theta Tau
Distinguished Alumna, Duke University School of Nursing
Duke University, BSN
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, MPH
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, PhD
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White MC, Mehrotra A, Menendez E, Estes M, Goldenson J, Tulsky JP.
Jail inmates and HIV care: provision of antiretroviral therapy and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis.
Int J STD & AIDS 2001; 12: 380-385.
Menendez E, White MC, Tulsky JP.
Locating Study Subjects: Predictors and Successful Strategies in Inmates Released from a US County Jail.
Controlled Clinical Trials 2001; 22: 238-247.
White MC, Tulsky JP, Portillo CJ, Menendez E, Cruz E, Goldenson J.
Tuberculosis prevalence in an urban jail: 1994 and 1998.
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2001; 5: 400-404.
White MC, Tulsky JP, Goldenson J, Portillo CJ, Kawamura LM, Menendez E.
Randomized controlled trial of interventions to improve follow-up for latent tuberculosis infection after release from jail.
Archives Intern Med 2002; 162: 1044-1050.
White MC, Gournis E, Kawamura M, Menendez E, Tulsky JP.
Effect of directly observed preventive therapy for latent tuberculosis infection in San Francisco.
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2003; 7: 1-5.
White MC, Tulsky JP, Menendez E, Goldenson J, Kawamura LM, Arai S.
Strategies to improve completion of latent tuberculosis treatment after jail: transferring research to practice.
Health Education Research 2005; 20:163-74.
Binswanger IA, White MC, Stable-Perez EJ, Goldenson J, Tulsky JP.
Cancer Screening Among Jail Inmates: Frequency, Knowledge and Willingness.
American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95: 1781-1787.
White MC, Tulsky JP, Menendez E, Goldenson J, Kawamura LM.
Incidence of TB in inmates with latent TB infection: 5-year follow-up.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2005; 29:295-301.
White MC, Chafetz L, Collins-Bride G, Nickens J.
History of arrest, incarceration and victimization in community-based severely mentally ill.
Journal of Community Health (in press).
Clarke B, Grossman E, White MC, Goldenson J, Tulsky JP.
The state of diabetes care in the San Francisco County Jail.
American Journal of Public Health (in press).
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