Jonathan Carey Jackson, M.D.

Jackson’s model of community institutional involvement is very powerful and should be applied more broadly. Colleague

Community Health Leaders
1999

Area(s) of expertise:
Primary care
Refugee and immigrant health
Medical Interpretation
Navigation
Cultural Competence

Leader’s Biography 1999:
Medical Director, Community House Calls Program, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Jackson has transformed the way health care is delivered to newly-arrived refugees in Seattle. He created a program that offers health, social and mental health services in 17 languages, provided by health professionals trained to understand and integrate cultural factors into their practice. Services are provided in refugees’ homes or neighborhood settings, with the assistance of “interpreter cultural mediators” recruited from the local communities.

Where this Leader can be reached today:
Professor of Medicine
Univ. of Washington Refugee & Immigrant Health Promotion Program
325 9th Avenue, Box 359959
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-744-9090
Email: jacksonc@u.washington.edu