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Nina Wallerstein, M.P.H., Dr.P.H.Director of the Masters in Public Health Program
Office: Family Practice Center, Rm. 145 Nina Wallerstein, Dr. PH is Professor and Director of the Masters in Public Health Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. For 30 years, she has adapted the empowerment-education ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire to:
Dr.Wallerstein has been developing participatory research methodologies
and empowerment intervention research since the early 1980s, with her
latest co-edited book covering these fields, Community-Based
Participatory Research for Health. She has worked both in North American
research and Latin American contexts, in healthy city participatory
evaluations,in adolescent and women’s health intervention research, and
in community capacity development. She has been the PI for an NIAAA-funded
youth empowerment intervention, for youth policy and women’s empowerment
programs, and currently, for the NIAAA-funded Southwest Addictions
Research Group, a Training Center whose purpose is to reduce
alcohol-related disparities among Native American and Hispanic
communities. Since 1999, she has been funded by CDC and NARCH/NIH grants
to work in collaboration with Native American tribes, developing
understandings and assessment tools for tribal community capacity,
tribal public health infrastructure, and measures of social capital. Her
recent NARCH III funding is to develop a culturally-based family-elder
intervention with two tribes to reduce substance abuse and enhance
quality of life. Languages: Fluency in Spanish and Portuguese. Reading ability in French. Limited Hebrew. Education: Dr.P.H. School of Public Health/Health Education (Doctorate with Distinction) M.P.H. Health Education/Occupational Health A.B. Economics (PHI BETA KAPPA) 1971 73 Community Education Last updated
November 28, 2006
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