Women's Receptivity to Church-Based Mobile Mammography
Presents results of a survey of women in Los Angeles County churches concerning use of mobile mammography services.
Kathryn P. Derose is an adjunct senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing health disparities. She has particular expertise regarding faith-based organizations, community-based participatory research, immigrants' health care access, Latino populations, and Latin America. Derose has served as principal investigator of several NIH-funded studies that developed multi-component interventions to address health disparities, such as faith-based efforts to reduce HIV-related stigma, promote HIV testing, and address obesity, and a church- and park-based intervention to increase physical activity. Currently, Derose is leading a large-scale trial of an integrated urban gardens and peer nutritional counseling intervention to improve food security and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people with HIV in the Dominican Republic. She is also co-leading work at RAND to understand faith-based approaches to moral injury among veterans. Derose has also researched immigrants' health care access and quality in the United States and park-based interventions to increase physical activity.
Derose is bilingual (English-Spanish), having lived and worked in Latin America for six years before seeking graduate education in public health. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent career, and is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ecuador. Derose received her Ph.D. in health services research and M.P.H. in population and family health from UCLA, and her B.A. in comparative area studies, Latin America from Duke University.
Education
Ph.D. in health services, University of California, Los Angeles; M.P.H. in population and family health, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in comparative area studies-latin america, Duke University
Languages
Spanish
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Community Health Equity Research and Policy
Selected Work
- Derose et al., "Preliminary effects of an urban gardens and peer nutritional counseling intervention on HIV treatment adherence and detectable viral load among people with HIV and food insecurity: Evidence from a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial in the Dominican," AIDS and Behavior, 27(3), 2023
- Derose et al., "The mediating role of perceived crime in gender and built environment associations with park use and park-based physical activity among park users in high poverty neighborhoods," Preventive Medicine, 129, 2019
- Derose et al., "Eat, Pray, Move: A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of a multi-level church-based intervention to address obesity among African Americans and Latinos," American Journal of Health Promotion, 33(4), 2019
- Derose et al., "Effects of a pilot church-based intervention to reduce HIV stigma and promote HIV testing among African Americans and Latinos," AIDS and Behavior, 20(8), 2016
- Derose et al., "Religious congregations’ involvement in HIV: A case study approach.," AIDS and Behavior, 15(6), 2011
- Derose et al., "Understanding disparities in health care access – and reducing them – through a focus on public health," Health Affairs, 30(10), 2011
- Derose and Varda, "Social Capital and Health Care Access: A Systematic Review," Medical Care Research and Review, 66(3), 2009
- Derose et al., "Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability," Health Affairs, 26(5), 2007