Faculty/Staff Martha Ann Terry, BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Master of Public Health Program
Graduate School of Public Health
222 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone: 412-624-5887
Fax: 412-624-5510
E-mail:
materry@pitt.edu
I am currently working as the focus group coordinator with Pitt’s Diabetes Institute, exploring both strategies for enhancing community support for and building self-management capabilities and implementationof the chronic care model in medical practices. My research interests include sociocultural aspects of human sexuality, reproductive decision-making, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. I am also interested in community-based participatory research, and implementation and evaluation of community-based interventions. I have recently completed work as the qualitative data coordinator for an observation study of medical practices. My areas of expertise include process evaluation, focus group facilitation and analysis, stage-based outreach training and role model story development training.
TEACHING
I teach BCHS 2509: Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health, the BCHS core course for GSPH MPH students. I also teach Introduction to Population Problems and Seminar in Family Planning, both elective classes in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS). In addition, I have developed a seven-week focus group workshop, taught through the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and School of Nursing. I am prepared to teach two additional courses relevant for BCHS: Cultures in Collision, which looks at the impact of migration, war, colonialism, and other factors on populations that come in contact with each other; and Culture and Women’s Health, which explores social and cultural factors that impact women’s health.
SERVICE
I serve on several departmental and school committees, including the BCHS admissions and student performance committee, BCHS executive committee, the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) Core Curriculum Committee and the GSPH Safety Committee. I work on an as-asked basis with community-based agencies that need guidance in conducting and analyzing focus groups and that need safer-sex workshops. I am past president of the Board of Directors for University of Pittsburgh’s Alumnae Council, a group that includes all female Pitt graduates. I am active in the Friendship Preservation Group and volunteer for Friendship Development Associates, two neighborhood associations that ensure quality of life and affordable, safe housing and business facilities in the East End.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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McAllister CL, Green BL, Terry MA, Herman V, Mulvey L. Parents, practitioners and researchers: Community based participatory research with Early Head Start. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 10, 1672-1679, 2003.
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Silverman, Myrna, Martha Ann Terry, Richard K. Zimmerman, Jean F. Nutini and Edmund M. Ricci. Tailoring Interventions: Understanding Medical Practice Culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 19: 47-76, 2004.