Anna María Nápoles, PhD, MPH, is a Professor and behavioral epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and daughter of Mexican immigrants. She is Principal Investigator of the UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her research focuses on cancer health disparities, psycho-oncology, patient-clinician communication, quality of life of family caregivers, and community-based models of research in ethnically and socioeconomically diverse groups. She has built community-academic research partnerships to develop and test evidence-based behavioral interventions for ethnically diverse adults in community-based settings. She has published extensively on research methods for conducting health disparities research.

IN THE MEDIA

• AUTHOR: Developing culturally sensitive dementia caregiver interventions: are we there yet? by Anna M. Nápoles, PhD, MPH,1 Letha Chadiha, PhD,2 Rani Eversley, PhD,3 and Gina Moreno-John, MD1/Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2010 Aug; 25(5): 389–406.