Research Summary
Dr. Burke is an affiliated 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 Co-Director of the UC-Cuba Academic Initiative. In 2015 she became Chair of Public Health at the University of California, Merced. 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 complex care management clinics in safety net hospitals.
Research Funding
September 26, 2014 - July 31, 2018 - Health literacy systems in the safety net: Lessons from complex care management, Co-Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NINR, Sponsor Award ID: R01NR015233
June 20, 2014 - May 31, 2016 - Addressing Oral Health Literacy among Mexican Immigrants, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NIDCR, Sponsor Award ID: R21DE024261
July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2014 - Communicating about Clinical Trials:Bringing the CIS to the Underserved, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: K07CA126999
September 26, 2014 - July 31, 2018 - Health literacy systems in the safety net: Lessons from complex care management, Co-Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NINR, Sponsor Award ID: R01NR015233
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