Jennifer Shaw receives Erickson Foundation Award

Jennifer Shaw, a research associate professor at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research, part of the Institute of Arctic Biology, received the Erickson Foundation Award for Excellence in Research at the November meeting of the American Public Health Association in Atlanta, Georgia. Shaw was recognized for her research brief, Jumpstarting advance care planning with Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care. The brief described a study to culturally tailor and pilot a communication intervention, called Jumpstart, to promote advance care planning among Indigenous people with serious illness.

Shaw's Jumpstart study partners include the Southcentral Foundation, the University of Washington, Washington State University, and University of New Mexico.

Shaw currently leads a large NIH-funded study to evaluate the implementation and clinical effectiveness of Jumpstart. Other current collaborators are the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, and the University of Washington Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence.