Biography
Ana Martinez-Donate is a professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, joining the School in September 2015.
Martinez-Donate's research work has focused primarily on Latino populations in the U.S. and Mexico. She applies a social ecological framework to the analysis of behavioral and social determinants of population health and the development and evaluation of community-based interventions for disease prevention and health promotion.
She is the lead investigator of a long-standing binational program of research on HIV risk and access to health services among Mexican migrants. She is also leading several projects that seek to 1) examine the negative impact of immigration and deportation policies on the children of Latino immigrant families; 2) understand syndemic health conditions, such as substance use, violence, HIV/AIDS, and mental health (SAVAME) that disproportionately impact Latino immigrants in the U.S.; and 3) test community-based interventions to reduce the impact of the SAVAME syndemic and the COVID-19 pandemic on Latino immigrant communities in Philadelphia.