Profile
Dr. Bame serves as Professor in the Urban Planning Program, specializing in health systems and
environmental health planning and policy. She is a Fellow in both Texas A&M's Hazards Reduction
and Recovery Center and Center for Health Systems Design and has joint appointments in the
Bush School of Government, Texas A&M College of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston TX. She came to Texas A&M in 1984 after more than 15 years in professional practice
and consulting in health services and public health in Ohio, Michigan, and Massachusetts and
teaching at Boston University and University of Michigan. Professor Bame brings a combination
of research and professional practice into her courses that incorporate a strong emphasis on
service learning and case study methods to help make the concepts and theory of planning and
policy-making more meaningful to the students.
Currently, Dr. Bame's research focuses on assessing community unmet needs and high-risk groups.
Using 2-1-1 data from Katrina-Rita in Texas, she is developing a template for monitoring unmet
needs in "real time" during disasters for 2-1-1 information and referral programs nation-wide.
She has written or co-authored several research articles and technical reports regarding health
services and social support systems for chronic care domains as well as environmental health
and green development. Sherry has served on scientific review panels for NIH, NSF and
Alzheimer's Foundation and as a reviewer for academic and professional journals. She has
received several local, state and national awards for her service to health and social service
organizations and has held various elected roles in public health and planning organizations
as well as League of Women Voters.
Ph.D., Department of Health Services, Management and Policy, University of Michigan, 1985;
M.S., Public Health and Nursing, Boston University, 1972; B.S.N., Nursing, University of
Michigan, 1969. ...[more]
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