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Yessenia Castro earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 2008, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2010. Her research focuses on health disparities affecting minority and underserved populations, with a particular emphasis on smoking cessation among Latinos. As a full professor and Associate Dean for Doctoral Education at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Social Work, her work explores how cultural adaptation variables influence cancer risk behaviors in Latino communities. She is dedicated to understanding the interplay of cultural factors and social determinants in shaping health risk behaviors and adapting behavioral interventions and measurement tools for Latino health disparity populations. Her professional interests include developing, evaluating, and disseminating interventions aimed at health risk behaviors, as well as studying the effects of cultural factors on health behaviors across gender, race, and ethnicity.
The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Full professor at the School of Social Work focusing on health disparities and cultural adaptation related to health behaviors.
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