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Valerie Yontz
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Valerie
Yontz, RN-BC, MPH, PhD
Specialist and Practicum Coordinator, Social
and Behavioral Health Sciences
1960 East West Road, Biomed D202
Honolulu, HI 96822
email: vyontz@hawaii.edu
phone: (808) 956-5771
fax: (808) 956-5818 |
Academic Degrees
PhD (Sociology of Aging), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MPH (Gerontology), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MA (Sociology), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MS (Nursing), University of Utah
MS (Biology), Saint Louis University (Missouri)
BSN (Nursing), Saint Louis University (Missouri)
BA (Biology), Illinois Wesleyan University (Missouri)
Certifications/Licenses
Registered Nurse (RN) in Hawai‘i
Board Certified as Gerontological Nurse (RN-BC)
Advanced Certificate in Gerontology (University of Hawai‘i)
Assisted Living National Administrator Certification (Level1)
Notary Public in State of Hawaii
Awards/Honors
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PH 630 Cultural Competency in Health Care
voted most favorite class by Hui Ola Pono in 2007 |
Research Interests (past and current)
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Public Health Workforce Training and Continuing Education
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Community Based and Engaged Participatory Methods |
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Qualitative Data Collection Methods |
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Program Evaluation and Monitoring |
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Service Learning |
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Public Health Practice & Intervention |
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Cultural Competency & Diversity |
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Cross-Cutting Areas of Public Health Education |
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Health Equity and Health Disparity Issues |
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Aging and Elder Services |
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Health and Gerontology |
Current Research Grants
California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) grant—Valerie
Yontz is the Principal Investigator for University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and
one of the Management Team members in conjunction with three
California Schools of Public Health—UC-Berkeley,
UC-Davis, UC-Fresno, and Pacific Island Health Officer Organization. The
mission of CALPACT is to train existing public health workforce in the Hawai‘i, Pacific Islands, and California.
Courses Taught
PH 600 Introduction to Public Health
PH 602 Introduction to Health Services
PH 630 Cultural Competency in Health Care
PH 789 Integrative Seminar
PH 791 Advanced Public Health Practice
PH 793 Special Practicum or Special Projects
Dr. Valerie Yontz is currently Specialist and Practicum
Coordinator. Through her experiences in the community, Dr.
Yontz helps make linkages and placements for the MPH students'
field practicum.
Over a ten year span, Dr. Yontz was the Coordinator of an Elderly Service Program for a Community Health Center in Hawaii called Kokua Kalihi Valley (KKV) Comprehensive Family Services. She developed an expansive and very successful community-based elderly service program that demonstrated elderly can exercise, eat right, improve their health, and age more successfully while staying longer in their own homes. Valerie also served as the Quality Assurance Officer and the Director of Public Housing Services for Kokua Kalihi Valley Health Center. She created many major components of KKV's Quality Improvement system. Prior to the university, Dr. Yontz worked as Health Service Director for Pohai Nani Retirement Assisted Living facility and with Hospice Hawaii
as Patient Care Coordinator.
Valerie is originally from central Illinois and has a wide range of experiences
acquired throughout her professional life. Valerie is a nurse,
biologist, sociologist, and gerontologist. She has worked
in Missouri, Maine, Utah, and Illinois as an emergency room
nurse, home health nurse, tuberculosis monitoring nurse, and
nursing consultant. With her transcultural nursing background,
Valerie has worked overseas in Liberia, West Africa (Peace Corps) training
village health workers and in Thailand, Malaysia and throughout
Southeast Asia teaching and training Vietnamese and Cambodian
refugees about health education topics and healthy behavior
practices.
Selected Publications
Yontz, V. & Maddock, J. (2007). Focus
on Health Disparities: Gaining Momentum in Hawaii, California
Journal of Health Promotion 2007, Volume 5, Issue in
press.
Yontz, V., Kilonsky, N. Maddock, J. &
Braun, K. (2007) Public Health at the University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa, 2000-2006. California Journal of Health Promotion
2007, Volume 5, Issue I, vii-xv.
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