Nina Wallerstein, Dr. P.H., is professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She currently is the director of the Center for Participatory Research, and the director of the developing community engagement and research component of the Clinical Translational Science Center. 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.
Nina Wallerstein, Dr. P.H., is professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and was the founding director of the Master in Public Health Program at the University of New Mexico until 2007. She currently is the director of the Center for Participatory Research, and the director of the developing community engagement and research component of the Clinical Translational Science Center. She received her Dr. P.H. 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); coauthor of Problem-Posing at Work: Popular Educator's Guide; and author of several 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.
