Barbara A. Israel [webpage in development]

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• In Memoriam
  Barbara Israel passed away on Friday, February 6, 2026.
   
  
• Faculty profile at the University of Michigan
  Barbara Israel, DrPH. Professor Emerita, Health Behavior and Health Equity; Director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. (Webpage courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.)
• Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
  Barbara Israel is the Founding Director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, funded initially in 1995 through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Center is a collaborative partnership involving members of community-based organizations, health and human service agencies, and academia that fosters and supports CBPR research, intervention and policy change projects aimed at increasing knowledge and addressing factors associated with health inequities and quality of life in Detroit, Michigan
• Excellence in Practice Staff Award: Barbara Israel
  Barbara Israel, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Excellence in Practice Award in the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Israel is regarded as a pioneer in the conceptualization and development of community-based participatory research approaches to public health education, research and intervention.
   
  
• Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) Member Profile: Barbara Israel (4 min)
  Professor Israel's research interests include the social determinants of health; the relationship between stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; community empowerment and health; and she has extensive experience conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) in collaboration with partners in diverse ethnic communities.
• Journeys in HBHE: Featuring Barbara Israel | Michigan Public Health (46 min)
  In this interview with University of Michigan Department of Health Behavior and Health Education interim chair Scott Roberts, Barbara Israel tells the story of how as a community organizer she was inspired by Guy Steuart to study public health education at the UNC school of public health. Includes transcript.
• Guy W. Steuart: The Person and His Works
  Barbara A. Israel, DrPH, Leonard Dawson, MSPH, […], and Eugenia Eng, DrPH. Health Education Quarterly 1993;20(1_suppl):S137-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981930200S111
   
• NYU Transit Worker Study