Dr. Carey Jackson Biography

Professor Jackson is trained in Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Anthropology and has designed health services for the medical care of refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and survivors of torture at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, a teaching hospital of the University of Washington's School of Medicine. His writing and research focused on health disparities from cervical cancer, liver cancer, hepatitis B, and tuberculosis among immigrant communities. Interventions designed to address language and cultural barriers to prevention have been the focus of large community based participatory research trials in Seattle, Vancouver BC, and a few multi-center national trials. His primary interest has been the design and operation of health services that facilitate the care of recent arrivals and limited English speaking patients in health care. Centered at Harborview Medical Center these efforts included the Northwest Health and Human Rights Coalition( together with with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the International Rescue Committee), Refugee and Immigrant Health Promotion Program, the Community HouseCalls Program, and the International Medicine Clinic. He has also written on issues of language translation and the cultural construction of illness and was the Medical Director of the Interpreter Services Department at Harborview Medical Center for 28 years where he and colleagues developed the Ethnomed.org website to inform the care providers for refugees and immigrants about specialized issues in their care and cultural context. He has done field research and taught in Guam, Nepal, Uganda, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. He was an active clinician for refugee patients for over 30 years and taught Medicine on the wards of Harborview during those decades. He is an adjunct Professor of Global health and now an Emeritus faculty member in the Department of Medicine.