John Casken

John Casken, PhD, MA, MPH, RN
Associate Specialist
Director of International Affairs

                        

School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 442
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-5750, Fax: 808-956-5296
Email: casken@hawaii.edu

 

BA, University College of Swansea (U.K.), 1962; MA, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1966; ASN, Santa Barbara City College, 1976; MPH, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979; PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994.

 

Clinical Area of Focus: administration, public health

 

My interests are examining how politics and finance play out in the organization or health and medical care.  Having spent five years working on the Pine Ridge American Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and as my dissertation dealt with the Native Hawaiian Healthcare Act of 1984,  I have an abiding interest in how politics and finance play out when linked with indigenous health.  For the last five years I have expanded my geographic concerns to East and South-East Asia – in particular China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.  Issues in disaster planning and emergency preparedness have increasingly intruded into my professional life – not surprisingly, given that these topics are intimately connected with politics and finance.  Most of all I enjoy watching others deepen their understanding of reality in health and medical care.

 

Teaching Topics: Health Administration, Health Finance, Disaster Preparedness