marie fongwa,
r.n., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Pilot Investigator
Pilot Study
“Evaluating the Psychometric Equivalence of Health Care Reports and Ratings by Older Whites and African Americans.” (2002-2003)
Address
UCLA School of Nursing
3-258 Factor Bldg., MC 956917,
Los Angeles 90095-6917
Phone
(310) 825-4583
Fax
(310) 267-0413
Email
mfongwa@sonnet.ucla.edu
Biography
Marie N. Fongwa, an Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, completed a Ph.D. in Nursing at the University of California San Francisco in 1998. She then did a 2-year postdoctoral research training at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She believes in linking quality with culture/patient background information and that learning from patients allows for providing them with health care that meets their needs and desires. Dr. Fongwa has explored quality of care perspectives for African Americans, Latinos, and Whites. To make a popular patient satisfaction instrument culturally sensitive to African Americans, Dr. Fongwa and others used data from the African American quality of care study to modify the instrument. The new satisfaction instrument’s psychometric characteristics were established via a cross sectional survey of African and White Americans. Dr. Fongwa has extended her research on quality of care and patient satisfaction to examining access to care in hypertensive African American women - specifically, she focuses on adherence to treatment recommendations. The specific aim is to improve hypertension management in African American women. Dr. Fongwa was educated as a nurse-midwife in Cameroon, West Africa where she was born. |
