Biography
Dr. Julie Baldwin is the director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Baldwin’s research over the years has focused on both infectious and chronic disease prevention.
Cross-cutting themes which have characterized her work include: utilizing community-based participatory research approaches, working with underserved and/or marginalized populations, and addressing health disparities by developing and implementing culturally centered public health interventions.
Dr. Baldwin has had a consistent program of applied research addressing HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention in youth, with a special emphasis on working with American Indian adolescents and their families. She continues to contribute significantly to this field of research today, as the Co-Director of a NIDA Research Education grant, entitled the “Institute for Translational Research Education in Drug Abuse” and a recently completed project, the “Intertribal Talking Circle for the Prevention of Substance Abuse in Native Youth.”
She also currently directs a 5-year NIDCR-funded clinical study to reduce early childhood caries among American Indian children in two communities. She is the Principal Investigator of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), a U54 NIMHD-funded research center for minority institutions.