| Name | Patricia Rieker, Ph.D |
| About | Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston University |
| Patricia P. Rieker, Ph.D., a medical sociologist, is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston University where she teaches and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Prior to Boston University, Patricia was Director of the Society and Health Program at Simmons College and for over twelve years the Director of Psychosocial Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She has just completed an NIH funded book that synthesizes social and biological explanations of gender differences in health. The book to be published by Cambridge University Press in February, 2008 (with Chloe E. Bird) is titled: Gender and Health: the Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies. Pat is a consultant on evaluation research and training to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Offices of Smoking and Health and Oral Health. She is one of the major authors of the CDC manual, Introduction to Process Evaluation in Tobacco Use, Prevention and Control. She also was involved in the development and implementation of the Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project (CEFP), a nationwide evaluation training program for the American Cancer Society. Her wide-ranging research and publications are focused on gender and health, the determinants of health care outcomes, evaluation capacity building, and the use of research in professional practice and decision-making. |
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