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Overview

Nina Wallerstein is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions, with a strong emphasis on community health, public health policies, and health sciences education. Their work spans various subfields including general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, sociology, and political science.

The scientist's research explores topics such as health policy implementation science, community health and development, mental health and patient involvement, health sciences research and education, public health policies and education, primary care and health outcomes, and service-learning and community engagement.

Nina Wallerstein has contributed to several recent papers including:

  • Engage for Equity: A Long-Term Study of Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research Practices and Outcomes, 2020, Health Education & Behavior
  • How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field, 2020, Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Partnerships, Processes, and Outcomes: A Health Equity-Focused Scoping Meta-Review of Community-Engaged Scholarship, 2020, Annual Review of Public Health
  • Engaging With Communities - Lessons (Re)Learned From COVID-19, 2020, Preventing Chronic Disease
  • Engage for Equity: Development of Community-Based Participatory Research Tools, 2020, Health Education & Behavior

Frequent collaborators of Nina Wallerstein include:

  • Shannon Sanchez-Youngman (17 co-authored works)
  • Blake Boursaw (11 co-authored works)
  • Elizabeth Dickson (11 co-authored works)
  • John Oetzel (10 co-authored works)
  • Lorenda Belone (8 co-authored works)

Major publication venues for Wallerstein's work include:

  • American Journal of Community Psychology (7 publications)
  • Health Education & Behavior (5 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (5 publications)
  • Progress in Community Health Partnerships (5 publications)
  • Frontiers in Public Health (3 publications)

Wallerstein has also published books through Rutgers University Press. One of the titles is Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition, released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Community-based participatory research for health : from process to outcomes

    Meredith Minkler;Nina Wallerstein

  • Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Health Disparities

    Nina B. Wallerstein;Bonnie Duran

  • Community-Based Participatory Research for Health

    Meredith Minkler;Nina Wallerstein

  • Community-Based Participatory Research Contributions to Intervention Research: The Intersection of Science and Practice to Improve Health Equity

    Nina Wallerstein;Bonnie Duran

  • Powerlessness, Empowerment, and Health: Implications for Health Promotion Programs

    Nina Wallerstein

  • Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement

    Robert M. Goodman;Marjorie A. Speers;Kenneth Mcleroy;Stephen Fawcett

  • Empowerment Education: Freire's Ideas Adapted to Health Education:

    Nina Wallerstein;Edward Bernstein

  • Reflections on Researcher Identity and Power: The Impact of Positionality on Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Processes and Outcomes.

    Michael Muhammad;Nina Wallerstein;Andrew L. Sussman;Magdalena Avila

  • Community-based participatory research (CBPR): Towards equitable involvement of community in psychology research.

    Susan E. Collins;Seema L. Clifasefi;Joey Stanton

  • Engaging Young Adolescents in Social Action Through Photovoice: The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project

    Nance Wilson;Stefan Dasho;Anna C. Martin;Nina Wallerstein

  • The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity: A Conceptual Model for Bridging Evidence With Policy

    Lisa Cacari-Stone;Nina Wallerstein;Analilia P. Garcia;Meredith Minkler

  • The Power and the Promise: Working With Communities to Analyze Data, Interpret Findings, and Get to Outcomes

    Suzanne B. Cashman;Sarah Adeky;Alex J. Allen;Jason Corburn

  • Introduction to Community Empowerment, Participatory Education, and Health

    Nina Wallerstein;Edward Bernstein

  • Measuring community empowerment: a fresh look at organizational domains

    Glenn Laverack;Nina Wallerstein

  • Power between evaluator and community: research relationships within New Mexico's healthier communities.

    Nina Wallerstein

  • Engage for Equity: A Long-Term Study of Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research Practices and Outcomes:

    Nina Wallerstein;John G Oetzel;Shannon Sanchez-Youngman;Blake Boursaw

  • Empowerment to reduce health disparities.

    Nina Wallerstein

  • Community-Based Participatory Research Conceptual Model Community Partner Consultation and Face Validity

    Lorenda Belone;Julie E. Lucero;Bonnie Duran;Greg Tafoya

  • Bridging Community Intervention and Mental Health Services Research

    Kenneth B. Wells;Jeanne Miranda;Martha L. Bruce;Margarita Alegria

  • Process and outcome constructs for evaluating community-based participatory research projects: a matrix of existing measures

    Jennifer A. Sandoval;Julie Lucero;John Oetzel;Magdalena Avila

  • How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field.

    Tram Nguyen;Tram Nguyen;Ian D. Graham;Ian D. Graham;Kelly J. Mrklas;Kelly J. Mrklas;Sarah Bowen

  • Strengthening Individual and Community Capacity to Prevent Disease and Promote Health: In Search of Relevant Theories and Principles

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Eugenia Eng;Brian Flay;Guy Parcel

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Oetzel
John G. Oetzel University of Waikato
Meredith Minkler
Meredith Minkler University of California, Berkeley
Barbara A. Israel
Barbara A. Israel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Elizabeth A. Baker
Elizabeth A. Baker Saint Louis University
Amy J. Schulz
Amy J. Schulz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Irene H. Yen
Irene H. Yen University of California, Merced
Giselle Corbie-Smith
Giselle Corbie-Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Edith A. Parker
Edith A. Parker University of Iowa
Mohan J. Dutta
Mohan J. Dutta Massey University
Paul Koegel
Paul Koegel RAND Corporation

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