Ana Abraido-Lanza, Ph.D.
Ana
F. Abraído-Lanza received her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology
with a concentration in Health Psychology from the City University of
New York, and completed a post-doctoral training fellowship program
in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University. 
She
is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociomedical
Sciences at Columbia. Dr. Abraído-Lanza is also the Director
of the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD) at Columbia's
Mailman School of Public Health, an education project aimed at increasing
the number of under-represented ethnic minorities who enter research
careers in public health. Her research focuses on cultural, psychosocial,
and socioeconomic processes that affect psychological well-being, adjustment
to chronic illness, and mortality among Latinos, as well as health disparities
between Latinos and non-Latino whites. Her current research projects
include the study of: (1) acculturation and cancer-related behaviors
among Latinos (2) coping and psychosocial adjustment among Latinos with
arthritis, and (3) socioeconomic status and disability among Latinos
with arthritis. Her work on cancer screening among Latina women examines
the extent to which socioeconomic factors and quality of health care
predict breast and cervical cancer screening among Latinas vs. non-Latina
whites. She is currently conducting another study assessing whether
cultural vs. structural factors affect breast and cervical cancer screening
among Latinas. (Read more
about Dr. Abraido-Lanza)
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