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Marlene Camacho-Rivera is an Assistant Medical Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education/CUNY School of Medicine. Dr. Camacho-Rivera is a social epidemiologist and health disparities researcher, studying how socio-cultural, geographic, and institutional factors influence chronic disease outcomes (cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and asthma) across the lifespan. She has a special emphasis on the health of racial/ethnic minorities living in urban communities. Dr. Camacho-Rivera’s research also explores how biological, cultural, and structural factors account for within group variation in chronic disease outcomes among Blacks and Latinos.
Her recent work combines interdisciplinary and mixed method approaches to develop culturally tailored interventions to improve chronic disease self-management among minority adolescents and adults. Dr. Camacho-Rivera completed her doctorate in social epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and her postdoctoral training in cancer epidemiology at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. She joined the faculty of Sophie Davis in 2015.
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