Tetine Sentell, PhD is an internationally recognized health equity scholar and health services researcher. She’s a Professor of Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Chin Sik & Hyun Sook Chung Endowed Chair in Public Health Studies.
Dr. Sentell brings 25+ years experience understanding and addressing health inequities to her research. She wants to better understand and address these problems at the individual, family, and community-level with a strengths-based perspective. Dr. Sentell has executive and managerial leadership in academic units, programs, and extramurally-funded projects. She also has extensive experience supervising multidisciplinary teams in local, national, and global collaborations and innovative academic programming with cross-disciplinary community, clinical, and academic partners. This includes developing and launching new workforce pathways for health equity.
Dr. Tetine Sentell served as Interim Dean of the Thompson School from 2021-2023, Director/Department chair of Office of Public Health Studies from 2019-2021, co-lead of the Healthy Hawaiʻi Initiative Evaluation Team, and academic lead of Next Gen Hawai‘i, a collaborative social media campaign to amplify voices of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino youth across diverse languages.
She was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Medicine Institute of Public Health in Tirana, Albania in 2017. Dr. Tetine Sentell was selected for the Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2013. She also serves as senior scientist Queen’s Health System in the Hawaiʻi Health Equity Research and Outreach Network (Hawaiʻi HERON), part of the FDA-funded Racial and Ethnic Minority Acceleration Consortium for Health Equity (REACH).
Chin Sik & Hyun Sook Chung Endowed Chair in Public Health Studies
Professor in the Office of Public Health Studies (OPHS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Principal Investigator of the Hawaiʻi Public Health Workforce Catalyst Lab
Education
PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis
The University of California, Berkeley
MA in Political Science
The University of California, Berkeley
MA in Experimental Psychology
Hollins University
BA in English Literature
Middlebury College
Fellowships & Training
Academic Public Health Leadership Institute Development Program at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)
WeLead, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Women-in-Leadership Mentee
Expanding National Capacity in Patient Centered Outcomes Research through Training (ENACT) Fellow, The Institute for Clinical Research Education at the University of Pittsburgh
SFSU/UCSF Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at The University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychology and the San Francisco State University, Psychology Department and Department of Health Education
National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Scholar, Clinical Research Training Program at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry
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