- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Global Health
1501 North 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
United States
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Paul H. Park, MD, MBA, MSc is the Medical Director in the Community Health Services Division of Public Health – Seattle & King County. Dr. Park leads clinical, policy, and evaluation strategy and implementation across public health centers, the healthcare for the homeless program, and mobile medical teams.
Dr. Park previously worked for Partners In Health, while based in Rwanda and later Boston. His roles included implementation, administrative leadership, policy, and research. Dr. Park’s research focused on implementation science surrounding novel, rural care delivery, including pilot and scale-up for diabetes, cancer, mental health, and other chronic diseases in Rwanda, Malawi, Liberia, and Haiti. He previously held an academic appointment as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Global Health Equity. Dr. Park later translated his work domestically as the Senior Director of Programs at Solid Ground, a local non-profit organization focusing on racial equity through direct social services and advocacy, particularly around housing, food and nutrition, health access, and transportation in King County, WA.
Dr. Park has served as a primary care physician at FQHCs in King County and previously served as a medical officer for the Indian Health Service in Navajo Nation and Mashpee, MA. Dr. Park currently serves in WA DOH’s Health Equity Zone Community Advisory Council. Dr. Park completed residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University. His medical education included two years at AMPATH in Eldoret, Kenya as part of his NIH Fogarty Fellowship. Dr. Park currently serves on the Board of Directors for Timmy Global Health.
- MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
- MSc Global Health, Duke University
- MBA, Oklahoma State University
- BS, Indiana University
- Spanish
- Community Health Workers
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Homelessness
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Implementation Science
- Mental Health
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Nutrition
- Policy Monitoring
- Primary Health Care
- Quality Improvement
- Social Determinants of Health
Nyirandagijimana B, Edwards JK, Venables E, Ali E, Rusangwa C, Mukasakindi H, Borg R, Fabien M, Tharcisse M, Nshimyiryo A, Park PH, Raviola GJ, Smith SL. Closing the gap: decentralising mental health care to primary care centres in one rural district of Rwanda. Public Health Action. 2017;7(3):231-236.
Ndayisaba A**, Harerimana E, Borg R, Miller AC, Kirk CM, Hann K, Anatole M, Ngoga G, Dusabeyezu S, Mutumbira C, Mpunga T, Ngamije P, Nkikabahizi F, Hirschhorn LR, Niyonsenga SP, Bavuma C, Park PH. Clinical mentorship and quality improvement program to manage type 2 diabetes in rural Rwanda. J Diabetes Res. 2017;2017:2657820.
Niyonsenga SP*, Park PH*, Ngoga G, Ntaganda E, Kateera F, Gupta N, Rwagasore E, Rwunganira S, Munyarugo A, Mutumbira C, Dusabayezu S, Eagan A, Boudreaux C, Noble C, Muhimpundu MA, Ndayisaba FG, Nsanzimana S, Bukhman G**, Uwinkindi F**. Implementation outcomes of national decentralization of integrated outpatient services for severe non-communicable diseases to district hospitals in Rwanda. Trop Med Int Health. 2021 Apr 23. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13593. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33892521.
Park, P.H.; Shyirambere, C.; Kateera, F.; Gupta, N.; Rusangwa, C.; Mukherjee, J.; Coutinho, A.; Lehmann, L.; Buswell, L.; Shulman, L.N.; Mubiligi, J.M.; Uwinkindi, F.; Hirschhorn, L.R. Implementing Cancer Care in Rwanda: Capacity Building for Treatment and Scale-Up. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7216.
Ng'ang'a L, Ngoga G, Dusabeyezu S, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Harerimana E, Niyonsenga SP, Bavuma CM, Bukhman G, Adler AJ, Kateera F, Park PH. Feasibility and effectiveness of self-monitoring of blood glucose among insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes: open randomized control trial in three rural districts in Rwanda. BMC Endocr Disord. 2022 Oct 8;22(1):244. doi: 10.1186/s12902-022-01162-9. PMID: 36209209; PMCID: PMC9547423.