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Ada Wilkinson-Lee, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. She is currently Acting Department Head for the 2020-2021 school year. She completed her postdoctoral work as a WARMER Fellow with the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health at the University of Arizona. Both her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees are from the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. is in Family Studies and Human Development with a focus on culture, health and families. Her Master’s degree is in Mexican American Studies with an emphasis in Latino Health. Her research, teaching and service are centered on addressing Latino health from a community-based participatory action (CBPA) research perspective. Current and future research endeavors consist of a continuation of addressing Latino health disparities from a social psychological perspective utilizing mixed methods and innovative methodology including digital story analysis. Her interest in Latino health has stemmed from growing up in a border community and seeing firsthand the challenges that her family and community have to overcome in order to receive adequate health care. She has published articles that focus on Latino parent-adolescent communication, adolescent emotional distress, provider cultural sensitivity, and how to conduct translational studies to improve access to health care services among underserved reproductive aged women through the dissemination of health information and resources via promotoras (lay health worker).

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Courses
  • ARM
    Advanced Research Methods

  • LLECI
    Latinos and Latinas: Emerging Contemporary Issues

  • SAIDSC
    Sex and AIDS in the 21st Century

  • SIR
    Social Interactions and Relationships

  • LHD
    Latino Health Disparities

  • LA
    Latina/o Adolescence

Grants
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    Evaluation Services for Advancing Health Literacy Projects

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $220.0K
    Active
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    Community Health Workers for COVID-19 Response and Resiliency: National Evaluation Team

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $172.4K
    Active
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    Center for Community Health and Resiliency: Trauma-Informed Training, Resources, and Technical Assistance for Community Health Workers

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $27.8K
    Active
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    Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers - 2019

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $152.9K
    Active
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    Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers - 2019

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $6.7M
    Active
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    Pima REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) Project

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $738.9K
    Active
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    Collaborative Research: Puberty and Sociocultural Experiences in Mexican-Origin Boys

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $599.9K
    Active
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    Connecting Healthy Women

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $1.2M
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    Reach Out for Healthier Communities

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $585.2K
  • Funding agency logo
    Reach Out for Healthier Communities

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $292.6K
News
  • UArizona Shares in $5M Grant to Support Latino Humanities Studies

    2021

  • Preventing Chronic Disease in Arizona Border Region

    2019

  • Mexican-American Studies Grad Students Honored

    2001

Publications (26)
Recent
  • The Association between Duration of School Garden Exposure and Self-reported Learning and School Connectedness

    2022

  • Using a CBPR approach in the evolution of a theory of sociocultural resilience to understand health advantages among a Mexican-origin border population

    2021

  • A Community Health Worker-Led Community-Clinical Linkage Model to Address Emotional Well-being Outcomes Among Latino/a Individuals on the U.S. / Mexico Border

    2021

  • Community Health Worker-Led Community Clinical Linkages on the U.S. / Mexico Border: Lessons Learned

    2021

  • An integrated mixed methods approach to clarifying delivery, receipt and potential benefits of CHW-facilitated social support in a health promotion intervention

    2021

  • The Impact of School Gardens on Youth Social and Emotional Learning: A Scoping Review

    2020

  • The Impact of a Community Health Worker Intervention on Depressive Symptoms among Mexican Americans Living in U.S.-Mexico Border Region

    2020

  • Connecting Healthy Women: CHW services offered through a Medicaid health plan

    2019

  • Bike Ajo: Partners building bridges to resources.

    2019

  • Participant Perspectives on a Community-Clinical Linkage Intervention to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk and Promote Well-being

    2019

  • Engaging Promotora-led Community-based Participatory Research: An Introduction to a Crossover Design Focusing on Reproductive and Mental Health Needs of a Latina Community

    2018

  • Are we reaching the people that most need help? Separating the effect of an intervention from the effect of being reachable for the offer

    2017

  • Reachability of Medicaid members

    2017

  • It’s Complicated: Negotiating between Traditional Research and CBPR in a Translational Study

    2016

  • It’s complicated: Negotiating between traditional research and community-based participatory research in a translational study

    2016

  • ). A Latino Health Profile: Arizona REACH Risk Behavior Survey 2009-2012

    2015

  • Bridging the information gap: A culturally and community responsive cervical cancer education campaign

    2013

  • Addressing the information gap: Developing and implementing a cervical cancer prevention education campaign grounded in principles of community based participatory action

    2013

  • Adolescent emotional distress: the role of family obligations and school connectedness.

    2011

  • Smoking susceptibility among students followed from grade six to eight

    2011

  • Cuiate sin pena: Mexican mother-adolescent sexuality communication

    2010

  • Madres adolescentes: Riesgos para la crianza/Teen mothers: Parenting risk factors

    2009

  • Conceptions of good parent-adolescent relationships among Cuban American teenagers

    2009

  • Conceptions of Good Parent–Adolescent Relationships among Cuban American Teenagers

    2009

  • Practitioners’ perspectives on cultural sensitivity in Latina/o teen pregnancy prevention

    2006

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