Nina Wallerstein, DrPH

Professor
UNM Master of Public Health and Center for Participatory Research
UNM School of Medicine, Department of Family & Community Medicine
MSC 09 5060
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
USA 87131

Biographical Sketch: Nina Wallerstein, DrPH is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Master of Health Program at the University of New Mexico; and director for the Center for Participatory Research, Office of Community Health. For over 25 years, she has been involved in empowerment/popular education, and participatory research with youth, women, tribes, and community building efforts. Her research focuses on community capacity and health development, culturally appropriate translational intervention research with tribes to reduce health disparities, participatory evaluation, and community based participatory research processes and outcomes. She is an editor of Community Based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes, 2nd edition, 2008, San Francisco, Jossey Bass (with Meredith Minkler).

Papers:
4201.0 Trust development in community academic partnerships 4201.0 Research for improved health: Methods, methods and metrics of national study to evaluate community based participatory research partnerships to reduce health disparities