Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H.
Professor of Health and Social Behavior
Director, Health and Social Behavior Program
PHONE: (510) 642-4397
FAX: (510) 643-8236
LOCATION: 207-D University Hall
E-MAIL: mink@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
- Empowerment and advocacy interventions with youth and the elderly
- Impact of community-based participatory research on public policy
- Using CBPR to reduce late stage diagnosis of HIV/AIDS
Publications
Minkler, M. (2012) Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare (3rd edition). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Garcia, AP, Minkler, M, Cardenas, Z et al., (in press) Engaging homeless youth in community-based participatory research: A case study from Skid Row, Los Angeles. Health Promotion Practice.
Prata, N, Ejembi, C., Fraser, A, Shittu, O and Minkler, M. (2012) Community mobilization to reduce postpartum hemorrhage in home births in northern Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine. 74 (8): 1288-1296.
Gonzalez, P, Minkler, M, Gordon, M, Garica, AP et al., (2011) Community-Based - Participatory Research and Policy Advocacy to Reduce Diesel Exposure in West Oakland, California. American Journal of Public Health, 101 (Suppl 1): 166-175.
Catalani, C, Campbell, L, Herbst, S., Springgate, B., Butler, B., and Minkler, M. (2012) Videovoice: Assessing Community Needs and Assets in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Health Promotion and Practice. 13 (1): 18-28.
Minkler, M, Garicia, AP, Williams, J, LoPresti, T and Lilly, J. (2010) Si, Se Puede: Using participatory research to promote environmental justice in a Latino community in San Diego, CA. Jour of Urban Health. 87(5):796-812.
Catalani, C and Minkler, M (2010) Photovoice: A review of the literature in health and public health. Health Education and Behavior 37(3): 424-451.
Minkler, M. (2010) Linking Science and Policy Through Community-Based Participatory Research to Eliminate Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health 100 (Supplement 1): S81-87.
Minkler M, Lee, PT, Tom, QA, Chang, C, Morales, A et al., (2010) Using community-based participatory research to design and initiate a study on immigrant worker health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown restaurants. American Jour. of industrial Medicine. 53(4): 361-371.
Salvatore, A.L., Chevrier, J.C., Bradman, A., Camacho, J., López, J., Kavanagh-Baird, G., Minkler, M., Eskenazi, B. (2009). A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and their Families. American Journal of Public Health. 99(S53): S578-S581.
Fuller-Thomson, E., Yu, B., Nuru-Jeter, A., Guralnik, J.M., & Minkler, M. (2009). Basic ADL disability and functional limitation rates among older Americans from 2000-2005: The end of the decline? The Journal of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Science. 64(12):1333-6.
Fuller-Thomson, E. Nuru-Jeter, A. Minkler, M. & Guralnik, J. M. (2009) Black White Disparities in Disability among Older Americans: Further Untangling the Role of Race and Socioeconomic Status. Aging and Health.
Blair, T and Minkler, M (2010) Participatory Action Research and older adults: A review of the literature. The Gerontologist. Minkler, M, Brechwich,VA Tajik, M., and Petersen, D. (2008). Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: The Role of Community and Partnership Capacity. Health Education and Behavior 35(1): 119-137.
Minkler, M and Wallerstein, N (2008) Community-based participatory research for health. (2nd edition) San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass. Wilson, N, Minkler, M, Dasho, S, et al. (2008) Getting to Social Action: The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project Health Promotion Practice 9 (4).
Minkler, M, Breckwich Vásquez, V, Tajik, M, Petersen, D (2008) Promoting Environmental Justice through Community Based Participatory Research: Results of a Cross Site Case Study Analysis Health Education and Behavior, Breckwich VA.
Neuhauser, L, Richardson, D, MacKenzie, S and Minkler, M. (2007) Transdisciplinary and translational research practice: Issues and models of doctoral education in public health. Journal of Research Practice 3(2).
Lanza D, Hennessey-Lavery S, Facente S., Halpin, H, Minkler, M. (2007) Addressing food security through public policy action in a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership. Health Promotion Practice. 8(4): 342-349.
Minkler, M, Fuller-Thompson, E and Guralnik, J (2006) Gradient of Disability across the Socioeconomic Spectrum in the US. New England Journal of Medicine 355 (7): 43-51.
Profile updated: January 15, 2013