Steven L. Arxer - Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context

is Associate Professor at the University of North Texas at Dallas in the Department of Sociology and Psychology. He has a PhD in sociology at the University of Florida. Arxer specializes in qualitative methods with a focus on minority populations, intersectionality, and gender. He is co-author of Aging in a Second Language .

earned a BA in sociology at La Salle University (Philadelphia) and MA and PhD in sociology at The Ohio State University. Callaghans areas of interest include participatory community-based research, community organizing, and service-learning. Callaghan is currently Professor of Sociology and Dean, College of Arts & Sciences at Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida.

received his BA at UC Berkeley and finished his PhD at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at San Diego State University. He has published, all guided by anti-essentialist philosophies and community-based approaches, on critical pedagogy, race and racism, globalization and the bankruptcy of neoliberalism. He is currently President of The Dignified Learning Project, a nonprofit education-based organization in San Diego.

is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida and a faculty affiliate of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. She received her PhD, MSW, and MPH from the University of Pittsburgh and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute. Her research focuses on factors that influence disparities in mental health service utilization and treatment outcomes for African American older adults.

holds various degrees in the Liberal Arts, including an MA in International Studies from Florida International University and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Miami. His areas of interest include nativism, global inequalities, and social theorythe incorporation/development of pedagogies that help to fulfill potential in the world.

is a third year medical student at Ohio Universitys Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has research interests in the social determinants of health, food insecurity, womens and infant health, and mental health issues. She obtained an MS in Biology and an MBA with a focus on Health Care Management, from Wright State University before matriculation into medical school.

is a medical sociologist whose research and teaching focus on health disparities, hospitalcommunity relationships, and health policy. She is currently Assistant Professor of Community-based Health at Ohio Universitys Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Athens, Ohio. She received an MA in religious studies from the University of Chicago and a PhD in sociology from the University of Miami. Berkeley has worked both domestically and internationally on community-based research projects and has published extensively on the theory and development of community-based partnerships.