Nancy J. Burke, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF
Research Summary
Dr. Burke is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. She is also a member of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the Global Health Sciences Health Diplomacy and Medical Education in Cuba Program. She has conducted research in Cuba and the U.S. on social and cultural processes associated with chronic disease management, clinical trials recruitment and participation, and disparities in cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship. Her research program addresses subjectivity, bioethics, and culture. Over the last eight years she has worked in partnership with the Pilipino Senior Resource Center on studies of Filipina breast cancer support disparities and peer navigation. She is currently principal investigator of a study of information disparities and cancer clinical trial recruitment in safety net hospitals.
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, B.A., 1990
English Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, M.A., 1995
Cultural Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Ph.D., 2001, Ethnology
Professional Experience
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1994-1995
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR -
1995-1997
Research Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM -
1998-1999
Research Intern, Community Health Partnership, Albuquerque, NM -
2000
Instructor, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Spring Semester -
2000-2002
Research Scientist, Refugee and Immigrant Health Promotion Program, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA -
2001
Lecturer, University of Washington, Women's Studies Department, Spring Quarter -
2001
Visiting Professor, Pacific Lutheran University, Department of Anthropology, Fall Quarter -
2002
Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Bothell, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences -
2002-2004
Research Scientist, Comprehensive Cancer Center Population Sciences, UCSF -
2004-2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine/Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco -
2010-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine/Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
Honors & Awards
- 1990
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society - 1994
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon - 1996-1999
Latin American Institute Ph.D. Fellowship, University of New Mexico - 2001-2002
Qualitative Data Analysis Consultant, SPORE (Special Projects of Research Excellence), University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - 2001-2002
Qualitative Data Analysis Consultant, The Hope Heart Institute, Organ Donation/Transplantation Project - 2002
Behavioral Sciences Committee G Member, Institutional Review Board for Research Concerning Human Subjects, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2003
Latino Studies Research and Dissertation Award, Latin American Studies Association, Honorable Mention - 2003
Fellow, NCI-funded Cancer, Culture, and Literacy Institute, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, January 4-9 - 2004-present
National Institutes of Health, Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program - 2005
Advanced Training Institute on Health Behavior Theory, National Cancer Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, June 19-26 - COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
- 1998-2000
Member of the BOD, Latin American Association for Development, Albuquerque, NM - 2000
Advisory Board Member, Communities Count Social and Health Indicators Initiative Data Collection Partnerships: Perspective from Under-Represented Groups, King County Public Health, Seattle, WA - 2000-2002
Member of the BOD, Cambodian Women's Association, Seattle, WA - 2006-present
Member, Filipino Community Cancer Collaborative - 2012
Zero Breast Cancer Honor Thy Healer Community Researcher Award
Selected Publications
- Napoles TM, Burke NJ, Shim JK, Davis E, Moskowitz D, Yen IH. Assessing Patient Activation among High-Need, High-Cost Patients in Urban Safety Net Care Settings. J Urban Health. 2017 Jun 08.
View on PubMed - Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ. Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net. Soc Sci Med. 2017 Jun; 183:11-18.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ, Napoles TM, Banks PJ, Orenstein FS, Luce JA, Joseph G. Survivorship Care Plan Information Needs: Perspectives of Safety-Net Breast Cancer Patients. PLoS One. 2016; 11(12):e0168383.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ, Mathews HF. Returning to Earth: Setting a Global Agenda for the Anthropology of Cancer. Med Anthropol. 2016 Nov 17.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ. Contextualizing "Choice" for Undocumented Immigrants in U.S. Clinical Trials Research. Am J Bioeth. 2016 Oct; 16(10):72-4.
View on PubMed - Petersen AB, Tsoh JY, Nguyen TT, McPhee SJ, Burke NJ. Suffering in Silence: Impact of Tobacco Use on Communication Dynamics Within Vietnamese and Chinese Immigrant Families. J Fam Nurs. 2015 Dec 29.
View on PubMed - Tsoh JY, Burke NJ, Gildengorin G, Wong C, Le K, Nguyen A, Chan JL, Sun A, McPhee SJ, Nguyen TT. A Social Network Family-Focused Intervention to Promote Smoking Cessation in Chinese and Vietnamese American Male Smokers: A Feasibility Study. Nicotine Tob Res. 2015 Aug; 17(8):1029-38.
View on PubMed - Mathews H, Burke NJ, Kampriani E. Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds. 2015.
View on PubMed - Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds, Mathews H, Burke NJ, & Kampriani E, Eds. Introduction: Mapping the Landscape of Transnational Cancer Ethnography. 2015; 1-36.
View on PubMed - Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds, Mathews H, Burke NJ, & Kampriani E, Eds. Filipina, Survivor, or Both? Negotiating Biosociality and Ethnicity in the Context of Scarcity. 2015.
View on PubMed - Nickell A, Burke NJ, Cohen E, Caprio M, Joseph G. Educating low-SES and LEP survivors about breast cancer research: pilot test of the Health Research Engagement Intervention. J Cancer Educ. 2014 Dec; 29(4):746-52.
View on PubMed - Taylor VM, Burke NJ, Ko LK, Sos C, Liu Q, Do HH, Talbot J, Yasui Y, Bastani R. Understanding HPV vaccine uptake among Cambodian American girls. J Community Health. 2014 Oct; 39(5):857-62.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ. Rethinking the therapeutic misconception: social justice, patient advocacy, and cancer clinical trial recruitment in the US safety net. BMC Med Ethics. 2014; 15:68.
View on PubMed - Gabitova G, Burke NJ. Improving healthcare empowerment through breast cancer patient navigation: a mixed methods evaluation in a safety-net setting. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014; 14:407.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ, Do HH, Talbot J, Sos C, Ros S, Taylor VM. Protecting our Khmer daughters: ghosts of the past, uncertain futures, and the human papillomavirus vaccine. Ethn Health. 2015; 20(4):376-90.
View on PubMed - Maxwell AE, Bastani R, Glenn BA, Taylor VM, Nguyen TT, Stewart SL, Burke NJ, Chen MS. Developing theoretically based and culturally appropriate interventions to promote hepatitis B testing in 4 Asian American populations, 2006-2011. Prev Chronic Dis. 2014; 11:E72.
View on PubMed - Burke NJ and Barker JC. Health Communication "Noise": Insights from Medical Anthropology. Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication. Hamilton H and Chou WY Eds. 2014; 15-28.
View on PubMed - Tsang IK, Tsoh JY, Wong C, Le K, Cheng JW, Nguyen AN, Nguyen TT, McPhee SJ, Burke NJ. Understanding and use of nicotine replacement therapy and nonpharmacologic smoking cessation strategies among Chinese and Vietnamese smokers and their families. Prev Chronic Dis. 2014; 11:E26.
View on PubMed - Villero O, Macaerag I, Burke NJ. Pakikisama: lessons learned in partnership building with Filipinas with breast cancer for culturally meaningful support. Glob Health Promot. 2014 Mar; 21(1):68-72.
View on PubMed - Livaudais-Toman J, Burke NJ, Napoles A, Kaplan CP. Health Literate Organizations: Are Clinical Trial Sites Equipped to Recruit Minority and Limited Health Literacy Patients? J Health Dispar Res Pract. 2014; 7(4):1-13.
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