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Taylor Washington serves as the Research Program Manager for the “The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State” project with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is a member of the Communication and Dissemination workgroup of the Community Firearm Violence Prevention Network.
Taylor Washington is a research program manager in the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is responsible for the day-to-day oversight and data management of UAMS Project Heal, a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP) designed to address violent assault injury, primarily gun violence, among high-risk populations in Little Rock, AR. She also works on another violence intervention study to assess the feasibility of expanding the HVIP model to reach violent assault injury survivors in rural Arkansas.
She received her Master of Health Administration from the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. She has administrative experience in hospital risk management and patient safety, as well as years of direct patient care experience in hospital and clinical settings. Her interests lie in community health research, holistic health programming, and health equity action planning.