PHEER Newsletters
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Newsletter Spotlights
We love to highlight the great work and success of our members! Each quarter, we highlight one member and one publication in our newsletter. See the past newsletter spotlights below.
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Dr. Ashley Moore, PhD, MPH
Ashley Moore is a recent PhD graduate and Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Her dissertation work focuses on partnerships between local health departments and community-based organizations for public health emergency preparedness. She is using mixed methods to examine the facilitators, barriers, and key recommendations for these partnerships. In the Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, she has worked on projects pertaining to risk perception and communication among coastal emergency managers, as well as examining experiences with federal grants among Tribal emergency managers. In addition, she is currently developing an updated set of workforce competencies for the public health emergency preparedness and response workforce. Prior to her PhD program, she was an ORISE fellow with the CDC National Center for Environmental Health Office of Emergency Management, where she evaluated environmental health cooperative agreements with state and local agencies.
PHEER member Dr. Joan Casey (University of Washington) and colleagues Kaiser Permanente, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, the Scripps Institution, and the University of Rennes recently published “The 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires and Outpatient Acute Health Care Utilization” in the JAMA Health Forum journal.
The research uncovers how Los Angeles fires affected people’s health and how people navigated the health care system during an emergency. The authors found that outpatient healthcare visits did rise above normal levels, particularly for respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms. Additionally, virtual care visits rose significantly, potentially representing a shift in care settings used during this climate disaster.
Read the full paper here.
