Administration
Gartley Hall 204
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-6300
Fax: (808) 956-5964
Email: deants@hawaii.edu
Web: manoa.hawaii.edu/thompson/
Dean: Alexander Ortega
Associate Dean: Meripa Godinet (Gartley Hall 216)
About Myron B. Thompson
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| Myron “Pinky” Thompson earned his MSW from UH in 1953. A noted leader in the struggle for the preservation of the Hawaiian culture, he was at the vanguard of the Hawaiian Renaissance movement in the 1970s. While at the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children’s Center, he helped revitalize traditional healing practices such as hoʻoponopono and dream work. Along with Kumu Mary Kawena Pukuʻi and others, he helped create Nana I Ke Kumu, a two-volume reference manual on indigenous healing practices. He helped start Alu Like and Papa Ola Lokahi, was a Bishop Estate Trustee, and served as president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. The UH Board of Regents approved the naming of the school after him in 2008. |
General Information
The Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health is comprised of the Department of Social Work, the Center on Aging, and the Office of Public Health Sciences.
Vision
Achieving social justice and health equity for the people of Hawaiʻi and citizens in a changing world.
Special Program
The Center on Aging (COA)
Gartley Hall, Room 201 B and C
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Web: manoa.hawaii.edu/aging
Faculty
C. M. Nishita, PhD—Director
T. Becker, PhD—Assistant Researcher
Joonyoung Cho—Assistant Professor
S. Gursimran, MPH—Junior Researcher
J. Lee, PhD—Assistant Researcher
The Center on Aging (COA) was established by the UH Board of Regents in July 1988. The mission of COA is to stimulate and coordinate gerontological activities at UH Mānoa, to establish gerontology as an academic field at UH Mānoa, and to promote collaboration between UH and other organizations in the aging network.
The center is involved in a number of research and training projects, including age-friendly cities, dementia, elder abuse, cultural variations in caregiving, perceptions of chronic disease, death and dying practices, elder care/kūpuna care, workforce development, and coordinating specialized training and workshops in gerontology. The center also is involved in the application of data and health analytics, as well as the gerontological intersections of behavioral health, mental health, and substance use.
COA’s projects are conducted in collaboration with a number of UH Mānoa departments including the Pacific Health Informatics and Data Center, Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing, and the College of Social Sciences, as well as agencies such as the Hawaiʻi Department of Health (Executive Office on Aging, Behavioral Health Administration), Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Medical Services Association, Kokua Mau, and Papa Ola Lokahi. COA is one of three units within the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, alongside the Department of Social Work, and the Office of Public Health Sciences.
