Nina Wallerstein, M.P.H., Dr.P.H.

Director of the Masters in Public Health Program

Office: Family Practice Center, Rm. 145

Office Hours: By appointment.

Work Phone: 272-4173
                    
E-mail: nwallerstein@salud.unm.edu

Nina Wallerstein, Dr. P.H., is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and was the founding Director of the Masters in Public Health Program at the University of New Mexico until 2007. She currently is the Director of the Center for Participatory Research, Institute for Public Health, Office of Community Health; and the Director of the developing Community Engagement and Research component of the Clinical Translational Science Center. She received her DrPH and MPH in Community Health Education at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. For over 25 years, she has been involved in empowerment/popular education, and participatory research with youth, women, tribes, and community building efforts. She is the co-editor of Community Based Participatory Research for Health, 2nd edition, 2008 (with Meredith Minkler); co-author of Problem-Posing at Work: Popular Educator's Guide; and author of several other health and adult education books and over 100 articles and book chapters on participatory intervention research, adolescent health promotion, alcohol and addictions prevention research, empowerment theory, and popular health education. Her current research interests focus on community capacity and health development in tribal communities, culturally appropriate translational intervention research, participatory evaluation, and community based participatory research processes and outcomes. See NIH biosketch
 

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)
1985 88 University of California, Berkeley

M.P.H. Health Education/Occupational Health
1979 80 University of California, Berkeley

A.B. Economics (PHI BETA KAPPA)
1974 76 University of California, Berkeley

1971 73 Community Education
University of California, Santa Cruz

Last updated December 17, 2008