Airín Denise Martínez

Airín Denise Martínez

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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management

Community-based participatory research; racial and ethnic health disparities; Latinx immigrants; mixed methods; health policy

Location

Arnold House

715 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

333 Arnold House

Airín D. Martínez joined the Department of Health Promotion and Policy in Fall 2018. She is a medical sociologist with training from the University of California-San Francisco. She completed the W.K. Kellogg Health Scholars postdoctoral fellowship in community-based participatory research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research examines the sociopolitical and institutional arrangements that produce chronic disease disparities among diverse Latinx populations in the United States. Martinez’s research examines how institutional racism from immigration enforcement policies, housing, and food environments, create material deprivation, psychosocial stress, and biobehavioral effects in Latinx adults and children. She hopes that her research can inform community-based prevention strategies and inform equitable policies that support historically marginalized immigrant and racial and ethnic populations in the United States.

Education

  • W.K. Kellogg Health Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • PhD, University of California-San Francisco
  • BS, Barry University

Key Publications

Martínez, A.D., Mercado, E., Barbieri, M., Kim, S. Y., Granger, D. (forthcoming). The importance of biobehavioral research to examine the physiological effects of ethnic and racial discrimination in the Latinx population. Frontiers in Public Health.

Martínez, A.D. & Rhodes, S.D. (Editors). (2020). New and Emerging Issues in Latinx Health. Springer Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-3030240424 https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030240424.

Martínez, A.D., Piedramartel, A., & Agnew, J. (2015). Going beyond the injury: regulatory conditions contributing to Latina/o immigrants’ occupational psychosocial stressors in Baltimore. Frontiers in Public Health, 3: 240. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00240. 

Martínez, A.D. (2015). The juxtaposition of comiendo bien and nutrition: the state of healthy eating for Latino immigrants in San Francisco. Food, Culture, and Society, 18(1): 131-149. 

Martínez, A.D. (2013). Reconsidering acculturation for dietary change research among Latino immigrants: Challenging the preconditions of US migration. Ethnicity and Health. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.698254.