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Susan Passmore is an Assistant Professor at the UW Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on building community and academic partnerships to address health disparities. Dr. Passmore's research involves various topics related to promoting diversity in research participation. She has been awarded a foundation grant for the project through the National Human Genome Research Institute, focusing on understanding dynamics of choice to create diversity in genomics research targeting older African Americans. Additionally, she has led efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence among Wisconsin communities, resulting in collaboration with health equity initiatives and addressing hesitancy among providers and patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers. She supervises the Building Trust educational program to ethically engage underrepresented communities in research. Her projects aim to enhance preclinical Alzheimer’s disease research through increased trustworthiness in decision-making processes and to implement effective messaging interventions to improve vaccine uptake in rural areas.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences