Sonja Likumahuwa, MID, MPH
Sonja Likumahuwa, MID, MPH, is the OHSU project manager for the CREATE and CHARN federal grants, which seek to empower and support practice-based research in primary health care safety-net clinics. The Department of Family Medicine is partnering with OCHIN on the grants (www.ochin.org), and Sonja will work with Dr. Jennifer DeVoe at OHSU and a team of researchers at OCHIN. Prior to coming to OHSU, Sonja worked as director of a quality of life study with liver cancer patients and their primary caregivers at the University of Pittsburgh. The study was a randomized control trial testing a psychosocial intervention. She received a Master of Public Health (behavioral and community health sciences) and a Master of International Development (nonprofits and civil society) in 2008 from the University of Pittsburgh.
