Sandy Hoar
Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health
Sandy Hoar has developed and taught courses, given a wide variety of lectures, works on a number of domestic and international committees, and is active giving local, regional, domestic, and international presentations on a wide variety of medical and public health subjects. Academic Interests include pragmatic public health and appropriate technology, infectious disease and tropical medicine, cultural competency and community-oriented and community-based primary care (COPC, CBPHC), community-based participatory research (CBPR), and community-campus partnerships, service learning, and working with children as change agents. Current community-engaged activities include being a University Coach with the Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service (ISCOPES), the Community-Based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) workshop planning committee with the American Public Health Association, including supervising a student abstract and breakout session, supporting Mission to Heal (providing surgical operations and training around the world), board member for Health Improvement and Promotion Alliance, HIP-Ghana, and a just completed white paper on the appropriate response to limited-English proficiency patients in an outpatient clinic.