Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Ana-Paula Cupertino

Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 4125 Rainbow Blvd, MS 1056, Kansas City, KS, USA

Biography

Paula Cupertino, Ph.D is a University of Rochester Medical Center Professor of Public Health Sciences and Oncology and Wilmot Cancer Institute’s first Associate Director of Community Outreach, Engagement and Disparities. Cupertino leads efforts to strengthen and expand Wilmot’s research and connections across its 27-county catchment area in upstate New York. A social behavioral scientist, Cupertino has focused her research on health disparities in underserved and minority communities, primarily among Latinos and immigrants. Much of her work has been in tobacco control, improving smoking cessation and access to cessation treatments using a community-based approach.

Publications

Pipeline Efforts with a Freirean Twist: The Juntos Health Disparities Research Internship

Increasing workforce diversity is essential to improving the health outcomes for minority populations, particularly Latinos. This paper describes an innovative 6-week health disparities internship program for underrepresented precollege and college students aimed at empowering students to become health science researchers focused on issues that con... Read More»

Maria Alonso Luaces, Natalia Suarez, Octavio Estrella, Megha Ramaswamy, Won Choi and Ana-Paula Cupertino

Research Article: J Community Med Health Edu 2013, 3: 233

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000233

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