About
As an assistant professor at the CUNY School of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, Marlene Camacho-Rivera focuses her research on improving chronic disease self-management in the areas of asthma and cancer within urban minority communities. As an educator, Dr. Camacho-Rivera teaches minority health and health equity topics through an assets-based framework to empower medical students to identify solutions to society's most pressing health issues.
Current Work
Dr. Camacho-Rivera's research focuses on developing culturally-tailored, patient-centered interventions to improve chronic disease self-management among urban minorities. Her asthma research includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of mobile health technologies and wearable devices to improve asthma education and medication adherence among minority adolescents and adults with asthma. Within her cancer research, she is a co-investigator on the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick Cancer Health Impact Program, a community-based survey of health information seeking, use of mobile health applications, and cancer screening beliefs and behaviors among Brooklyn residents. She serves as an investigator and faculty mentor within the City College of New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (PACHE) program. Dr. Camacho-Rivera is currently evaluating the integration of social determinants of health topics within the medical curriculum and serves as the chapter representative within the Social Medicine Consortium's Campaign Against Racism.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Health Disparities, health equity, minority health, Social medicine