 Lawrence
A. Palinkas is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Director
of the UCSD Immigrant/Refugee Health Studies Program, a professor
of the UCSD/San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in
Clinical Psychology, and UCSD Coordinator for the new Health Behavior
track in the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health. Dr.
Palinkas received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of
Chicago, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University
of California, San Diego. He also completed a National Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Epidemiology at the Naval Health Research
Center in San Diego. A medical anthropologist, his primary areas
of expertise lie within the fields of behavioral medicine with a
focus on psychiatric epidemiology and psychoneuroendocrinology, and
in cross-cultural medicine with a focus on cultural epidemiology,
ethnopsychiatry, and health services research. His current research
includes an examination of circumpolar health (Arctic and Antarctic),
Latino health status and health services utilization, U.S. – Mexico
border health issues, and community-oriented primary care and prevention
for immigrants and refugee populations.
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