A New Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at New York University’s College of Global Public Health.
Ana F. Abraído-Lanza earned her B.A. in Psychology from New York University’s Washington Square University College (now College of Arts and Sciences), and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She also completed a post-doctoral training fellowship program in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Her research interests include studying the cultural, psychological, social, and structural factors that affect health, psychological well-being, and mortality among Latinos; health disparities between Latinos and non-Latino whites; and the health of immigrant Latinos. Her major publications on the Latino mortality paradox and on acculturation have contributed to national and international debates on the mental and physical health of Latinos specifically, and on general factors that influence immigrant health. Dr. Abraído-Lanza is engaged in several important professional activities. These include (among others) serving on the Editorial Boards of Health Education and Behavior, the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Preventing Chronic Disease. She has served as a committee or Board member on numerous scientific, professional and non-profit organizations and groups, including (among others) the Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools, the Community Task Force on Preventive Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and several National Institutes of Health review groups.
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Abraído-Lanza was Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. She was the director of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) at Columbia’s Mailman School, an education project funded by the National Institutes of Health, which aims to increase the number of under-represented researchers who enter biomedical and behavioral research careers in the field of public health. Dr. Abraído-Lanza’s honors and awards include being selected as a Columbia University Provost Leadership Fellow. She also received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, a Dalmas A. Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award from the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association, and the Student Assembly Public Health Mentoring Award from the American Public Health Association.
Please join me in thanking our Search Committee, Drs. Cheryl Healton, Niyati Parekh, Diana Silver, Julie Avina, S. Matthew Liao, Joyce O'Connor, Kevin Kirchoff, Elodie Ghedin, Melody Goodman, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Ray Niaura, Bernadette Boden-Albala, and Martina Lynch, for their hard work and in a very warm NYU welcome to Ana, who joins our leadership team for the coming Academic Year!