Nina Wallerstein, DrPH

Nina Wallerstein, DrPH, professor of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, has been developing participatory research methodologies and empowerment intervention research for more than thirty years. Her written work includes a co-edited volume, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Health, 2nd edition, five books, and over 120 articles and chapters. Since 1999, she has worked in collaboration with tribal communities to assess and strengthen community capacity, public health infrastructure, and measures of social capital. She has also co-developed an intergenerational culturally-centered intervention to reduce child risky behaviors with several New Mexican tribes. Dr. Wallerstein has worked with the Pan American Health Organization to develop empowerment trainings and participatory evaluation of healthy municipalities throughout the continent. She has been funded for the past seven years to co-lead a national effort to refine scientific models and measures to assess associations between participatory partnership processes with CBPR and health outcomes. Her overall research interests focus on community capacity development in tribal communities, culturally centered translational intervention research, healthy communities, and community based participatory research processes and outcomes to enhance the science of CBPR.