Faculty

Stephen E. Hawes

Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Global Health


Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2001
MS Biostatistics, University of Washington, 1993
BA Statistics, University of Rochester, 1985

Contact


Box 351619
Department of Epidemiology
Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 840
Seattle, WA

Bio

Dr. Stephen Hawes is professor and former chair of the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, at the University of Washington. He has adjunct appointments in the Departments of Global Health and Health Services. Dr. Hawes’s primary research interests are in human papillomavirus (HPV) and other STDs, cervical cancer, and HIV and he has more than 25 years of research experience conducting cohort studies in Senegal, West Africa as well as in Seattle. Dr. Hawes is Director of the UW Strategic Analysis, Research and Training (START) Center and has conducted global mentoring and scientific research workshops in Kenya, Namibia, Peru, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Research Areas

Research Interests

Dr. Hawes’s primary research interests are in human papillomavirus (HPV) and other STDs, cervical and anal cancer and precursor lesions, and HIV-1 and HIV-2, and he has more than 20 years of research experience conducting cohort studies in Senegal, West Africa as well as in Seattle. He also studies biomarkers for various cancers including cancer of the cervix, anus, lung, breast, ovary, and skin.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Associations between Isolation Source, Clonal Composition, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli Collected in Washington State, USA.
(2024 Jan 20)
Antibiotics (Basel) 13(1):
Jewell M, Fuhrmeister ER, Roberts MC, Weissman SJ, Rabinowitz PM, Hawes SE
Plasma proteomic signatures of enteric permeability among hospitalized and community children in Kenya and Pakistan.
(2023 Aug 18)
iScience 26(8): 107294
Tickell KD, Denno DM, Saleem A, Kazi Z, Singa BO, Achieng C, Mutinda C, Richardson BA, Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Hawes SE, Berkley JA, Walson JL
Care-seeking correlates of acute respiratory illness among sheltered adults experiencing homelessness in Seattle, WA, 2019: a community-based cross-sectional study.
(2023)
Front Public Health 11(): 1090148
Rogers JH, Hawes SE, Wolf CR, Hughes JP, Englund JA, Starita LM, Chu HY
Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on Human Papillomavirus Clearance Among Women in Senegal, West Africa.
(2023 Apr 26)
J Infect Dis 227(9): 1088-1096
Li Z, Winer RL, Ba S, Sy MP, Lin J, Feng Q, Gottlieb GS, Salif Sow P, Kiviat NB, Hawes SE
Morbidity and rehospitalization postpartum among women with epilepsy and their infants: A population-based study.
(2022 Nov)
Epilepsy Behav 136(): 108943
Mueller BA, Cheng-Hakimian A, Crane DA, Doody DR, Schiff MA, Hawes SE
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