Paula Palmer :Biography

 

Name: Paula Palmer, Ph.D.

Title:  Director, of Global Development

Organization: Institute for Prevention Research (IPR), University of Southern California

Email: ppalmer@usc.edu

Address: 1000 South Fremont Avenue, Unit 8, Alhambra, CA 91803

Phone Number: 626-457-4189

Dr. Palmer is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at USC and Director of Global Development at the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research.  Her research and teaching focus on health promotion and research capacity building in California and developing nations, primarily China and South Asian countries. She directs the Global Health Track of the Masters of Public Health Program at USC. Her current funded research projects include, the National Cancer Institute’s Transdisciplinary Tobacco and Alcohol Use Research Center (TTURC), which focuses on preventing tobacco use and alcohol abuse among youth in China; the China Seven Cities Study, a longitudinal study of transition in lifestyles and health-related behaviors in the era of globalization in seven of China’s largest urban areas; an investigation of HIV risk and substance use behavior among rural to urban Chinese migrants, and a longitudinal study of recovery among tsunami victims in India and Sri Lanka.  She is also co-director of the Fogarty International Center – USC Pacific Rim Global Health Framework program, which brings together 22 academic and public health institutions from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and China to develop joint research and training programs that address chronic, non-communicable disease to increase awareness of key global health issues.  A health and community psychologist by training, Dr. Palmer also serves as research coordinator of Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (WINCART), a National Cancer Institute funded community participatory grant to reduce cancer health disparities among Pacific Islanders in Southern California.