Rosemary Frasso, PhD, MSc, CPH

CPHI Senior Fellow

Title: Lecturer, Masters of Public Health Program, Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine and School of Social Policy & Practice

Email: rofrasso@mail.med.upenn.edu

Public Health Interests:

Improving access to physical and mental health services for vulnerable populations, health disparities, health literacy and qualitative methodologies. 

 

Current Public-Health Related Activities:

Dr. Rosemary Frasso is a lecturer in the Public Health program (Family Medicine and Community Health), and the School of Social Policy & Practice. Rosemary, an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice, was awarded a PhD in 2011. Prior to coming to Penn Rosemary earned two Masters Degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health (one in Maternal Child Health and the other in Society, Human Development and Health) and she holds national certification in Public Health (CPH). Rosemary has been teaching in the public health and social work arenas for several years and was awarded The Center for Teaching and Learning's Fellowship in 2009/2010.  She is currently working with Ian Bennett, M.D., PhD (Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health) and Drs. Phyllis Solomon and Steve Marcus on a project examining the impact of maternal literacy on pediatric health care utilization. Rosemary has extensive experience in the healthcare setting, and has a clinical and administrative background. Additionally, Rosemary worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on projects related to improving access to mammography for women with disabilities. Rosemary's research interest include improving access to physical and mental health services for vulnerable populations, maternal child health, health disparities and health literacy.

Select Presentations:

Rosemary Frasso, MSc, MSc, CPH, Ian Bennett, MD, PhD,  Jennifer Culhane, PhD. Dyslexia and Low Health Literacy: The Experiences of a Mother with a Reading Disability in the Healthcare Setting. To be presented at 2nd Annual Health Literacy Research Conference in Bethesda, Maryland on October 18-19, 2010.

Rosemary Frasso, MSC,  MS, CPH, Joan Davitt, PhD, Joretha Bourjolly PhD. "Healthcare Outcomes and Quality of Life. To be Presented at APHA, November 6-11, 2010

Rosemary Frasso, MSc, MSc, CPH, Roberta Sands, PhD.  Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Findings on Perceived Barriers to and Facilitators of Screening Mammography for Marginalized Populations. Presented at The International Council on Women’s Health Issues, Philadelphia, PA, April 7-10, 2010

Ian Bennett, MD, PhD, Rosemary Frasso, MSc, MSc, CPH,  Irma T. Elo, PhD, Jennifer Culhane, PhD, Steven Marcus, PhD. Failure of the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) in a Large Observational Study of Low Income Women. Presented at The Health Literacy Conference, Washington, DC, October 19, 2009