Meet the Instructor

Barbara Cochrane

Co-Director, Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center

Barbara Cochrane is co-director of the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center and a professor emeritus in child, family and population health nursing at the University of Washington. She’s been honored to teach in UWPCE’s Certificate in Gerontology program since 2006.

Cochrane is a past director of the UW School of Nursing’s de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging and former faculty in public health sciences at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, where she was a coordinating center co-investigator for the Women's Health Initiative — the large, landmark study of postmenopausal women's health. For more than 30 years, Cochrane's work has focused on older women's health, health promotion and disease prevention, as well as geriatrics education and training.