School of Public Health
Community Health and Human Development
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
mink@berkeley.edu
510-642-4397
Fax: 510-643-8236
Creative Achievements
• Co-authored first major U.S. study on community based participatory research (CBPR) in the health field (2003)
• Lead author on paper in NEJM (Aug. 2006) showing social gradient in disability in U.S. even at very high social class levels
• Co-authored first in-depth book documenting the health and life circumstances of grandparents raising grandchildren (1993)
• Conducted national study on the impacts of CBPR on health-promoting public policy, including environmental justice policy (2003-2006)
• Documented compulsory sterilization in India and used the data to persuade then Minister of Health of Pakistan not to introduce similar policy (1976)
Current Research Interests
• Community based participatory research and its impacts on policy
• Ecological study of health of restaurant workers in SF’s Chinatown (pending)
• Racial ethnic disparities in health of midlife and older Americans
• Empowerment strategies to promote critical thinking and positive health outcomes in youth
Key Publications
• Minkler, M, Fuller-Thompson, E and Guralnik, J (in press; 2006). Gradient of Disability across the Socioeconomic Spectrum in the US. New England Journal of Medicine 355 (7): 43-51.
• Minkler, M, Vásquez Brechwich, V, Warner, J, Stuessey, H and Facente, S (in press; 2006). Sowing the Seeds of Sustainable Change: A Community-University Research and Action Partnership in Indiana and its Aftermath. Health Promotion International.
• Brechwich Vásquez V, Minkler, M and Shepard, P (2006). Promoting Environmental Health Policy through Community Based Participatory Research: A Case Study from Harlem, New York. Journal of Urban Health.
• Minkler, M. and Fuller-Thomson, E (2005). African American Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A National Study Using the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey. Journals of Gerontology . 60B(2): S82-92.
• Petersen, D, Minkler, M, Vasquez Breckwich, V, Baden, A (2006). Community-Based Participatory Research as a Tool for Policy Change: A Case Study of the Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative. Review of Policy Research. 23(2): 339.
Teaching
• Community organizing and community building for health (PH 204D)
• Aging, health and diversity (PH 130AC)
• Community based participatory research in public health (PH 219C)
Honors
• Kellogg National Fellow
• Distinguished Mentorship Award, Gerontological Society of America
• Distinguished Career Award, PHPHE section, APHA
• Distinguished Fellow Award, Soc for Public Health Education
Public and University Service
• Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for National and Community Service (UCB, former)
• Co-chair, Faculty Policy Committee, Academic Service Learning (UCB)
• Founding Director, UCB Center on Aging
• Founder, Brookdale National Information Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (later moved to AARP where I remain on the board)
• Research consultant, PolicyLink