{"id":5304,"date":"2023-05-12T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/?page_id=5304"},"modified":"2023-07-05T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:21:35","slug":"sara-wakai-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/sara-wakai-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Wakai, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5304\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5304-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5304-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5304-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><strong>Assistant Professor<\/strong><span>,\u00a0 Department of Medicines, UConn Health<\/span><br \/>\n<span><strong>Associate Director<\/strong>, Center for Population Health, UConn Health<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:swakai@uchc.edu\">swakai@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over 25 years, Dr. Wakai has designed and conducted numerous research studies and program evaluations related to suicide prevention, public health, mental health, substance misuse, corrections, occupational and environmental medicine and special education. She has worked closely with clinical and community partners to design logic models, provide technical assistance and disseminate results to facilitate program improve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">B.A., Organizational Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara<br \/>\nM.A., Educational Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\nPh.D., Higher Education &amp; Organizational Change, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong> <strong>Profile:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=RDOKJVwAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;citft=1\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=RDOKJVwAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;citft=1<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-5304-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5304-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2023\/05\/SWakai_action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2023\/05\/SWakai_action.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Wakai \" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor,\u00a0 Department of Medicines, UConn Health Associate Director, Center for Population Health, UConn Health swakai@uchc.edu For over 25 years, Dr. Wakai has designed and conducted numerous research studies and program evaluations related to suicide prevention, public health, mental health, substance misuse, corrections, occupational and environmental medicine and special education. She has worked closely with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4853,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 20:19:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5304\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}