She is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing, where she is a National Institutes of Health–funded trainee in the Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program of UW’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences. For her dissertation research, Ms. Abu-Rish is collaborating with the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking Study to focus on exploring relationships among the recent economic downturn, public health budget cuts at the local health department level, and individual-level maternal and child health outcomes and disparities. Since 2009 she has worked as a graduate research assistant on IPE training grants. She also helped to establish the UW Health Science Students Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School Chapter.