Ana Abraído-Lanza
Vice Dean & Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health
Ana F. Abraído-Lanza, PhD is Vice Dean and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University’s School of Global Public Health.
Dr. Abraído-Lanza earned her B.A. in Psychology from NYU’s Washington Square University College (now College of Arts and Sciences), and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She also completed her post-doctoral training in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Her major publications on the Latino mortality paradox and on acculturation have contributed to national and international debates on the mental and physical health of Latinos specifically, and on general factors that influence immigrant health. Dr. Abraído-Lanza is engaged in several important professional activities. These include (among others) serving on the Editorial Boards of Health Education and Behavior, the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Preventing Chronic Disease. She has served as a committee or Board member on numerous scientific, professional and non-profit organizations and groups, including (among others) the Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools, the Community Task Force on Preventive Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and several National Institutes of Health review groups.
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More of Ana’s work:
Latino immigrants, acculturation, and health: Promising new directions in research (Annual Review of Public Health)
Breast cancer screening among Dominican Latinas: A closer look at fatalism and other social and cultural factors (Health Education & Behavior)
Toward a theory-driven model of acculturation in public health research (American Journal of Public Health)
Do healthy behaviors decline with greater acculturation?: Implications for the Latino mortality paradox (Social Science & Medicine)
The Latino mortality paradox: A test of the "salmon bias" and healthy migrant hypotheses (American Journal of Public Health)