Sherrilynne Fuller's Home Page


Sherrilynne Fuller , Ph.D.
Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics,  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine
Professor,  Information School
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Box 354943
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
206-221-7444   FAX 206-616-5249

Email -- sfuller@u.washington.edu
Web -- http://faculty.washington.edu/sfuller/

Center for Public Health Informatics

Global Partners in Public Health Informatics



Brief Biographical Sketch:

Sherrilynne Fuller currently serves as  Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine;   Professor,  Biomedical and Health Informatics,  School of Medicine; Professor, Information School;  Adjunct  Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; and Senior Advisor to the Dean, University Libraries all at the University of Washington, Seattle Washington.      She has a BA degree in Biology, a Master's in Library Science from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California.

Fuller's research  areas include:  strategies for improving health information systems and technologies to for low-resource environments across the world with a particular focus on capacity building in Universities in resource-constrained countries;   developing new approaches to represent and map the results of scientific research in support of knowledge discovery;  design and evaluation of health information systems to support decision making at the place and time of need; and integrated health sciences information systems design with a primary focus on human factors.   She has led the development of the Global Partner in Public Health Informatics a group of individuals and organizations working together to improve health in low resource settings through appropriate application of information and communications technologies and capacity building.

Previously Fuller was  the founding head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine and served for twenty years as the Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Associate Dean of Libraries.    Fuller was a member of the President's (White House) Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and on the Boards of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Medical Library Association.  She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Medical Library Association. 

REV:   12-17-2008