Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati , Ph.D. Associate Professor Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Ph.D., is assistant professor of research at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She is a member of the directorate of the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research at USC, focusing on community outreach and education, and a member of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and a courtesy appointment at the Annenberg School of Communication.
Baezconde-Garbanati conducts research, teaches, and provides technical assistance and training on tobacco and cancer control, culturally competent research, gender and ethnic minority health, and international health, emphasizing health disparities and the translation of scientific findings into community initiatives. She is the principal investigator and director of a California Department of Health Services-funded program, the Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Education Partnership, as well as the Southern California Partnership Program Office of the National Cancer InstituteResearch Interests
Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati's areas of research focus tobacco use and cancer control, on women and minority health, with special emphasis on Hispanic population groups. Currently, Baezconde-Garbanati is the head of the Cancer Information Service Partnership Program Office in Southern California, a project funded by the National Cancer Institute via a subcontract from the Northern California Cancer Center. The CIS is the nation's leading source of the most up-to-date scientific information on cancer available to the public.
Degrees
University California - Los Angeles, PHD, 1994
University California-Los Angeles, MPH, 1986
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgiu, MA, 1981
Professional Experience
Associate Director, Center for the Study of Latino Health, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. , 1992 - 1994
Awards
Outstanding services and excellence in interdisciplinary research and service to the Chicano, UCLA, 1990
USF for leadership, guidance, commitment and dedication to Latino community on tobacco control, 1994
L.A. Board of Supervisors, Commission on Women for contributing and dedicated services to L.A. women, 1997
Honor for contributions in preventing Youth Access to Tobacco Products, CA Department of Health Services, 1998
Recognition for Tobacco Control Efforts in the greater Los Angeles Region, Los Angeles Regional Linkages, 1998
Most Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association, Latino Caucus, 1999
First Hispanic Heroes Award on Tobacco Control from the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, 2000
First Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research , 2001
Latino Health Research Award from the 1st National Hispanic/Latino Conference on Tobacco Prevention & Control , 2002
National Health Hero Award from the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, University of Illinois at Chicago , 2003
Selected Publications Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2004). Unmet priority population needs in tobacco control: Large disparities--little Master Settlement Agreement dollars. Health Promotion Practice, 5(3 Suppl.), 111S-112S.
Portugal, C., Cruz, T. B., Espinoza, L., Romero, M., & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2004). Countering tobacco industry sponsorship of Hispanic/Latino organizations through policy adoption: A case study. Health Promotion Practice, 5(3 Suppl.), 143S-156S.
Themba-Nixon, M., Sutton, C. D., Shorty, L., Lew, R., & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2004). More money more motivation? Master Settlement Agreement and tobacco control funding in communities of color. Health Promotion Practice, 5(3 Suppl.), 113S-128S.
Unger, J. B., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Shakib, S., Palmer, P. H., Nezami, E., & Mora, J. (2004). A cultural psychology approach to "drug abuse" prevention. Substance Use & Misuse, 39(10-12), 1779-1820.
Unger, J. B., Gallaher, P., Palmer, P. H., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Trinidad, D. R., Cen, S., et al. (2004). No news is bad news: Characteristics of adolescents who provide neither parental consent nor refusal for participation in school-based survey research. Evaluation Review, 28(1), 52-63.
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