Chaya Spears, PhD
Instructor
Department of Family & Community Medicine Interests
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Dr. Spears is an anthropologist with interests in science literacy and the ethical conduct of health research, scientific integrity and community-based participatory health research, and the utility of social network analysis and geographic information systems for dissemination of health information. She has conducted research on the factors that influence low-income, rural, and minority mothers’ willingness to participate in health research. She is currently pursuing funding to investigate methods to disseminate environmental health research and biomonitoring results to participants and broader social and political communities; the factors that influence the scientific integrity of community-based participatory health research studies; and health education methods to reduce heat related illness among underserved Latino farmworker children.
Education
1999 | Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
B.S. Degree, Anthropology |
| 2002 | Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
M.A. Degree, Anthropology |
| 2011 | University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Ph.D. Degree, Anthropology |
Academic Career
| 2009 – 2011 | Research Associate
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine |
| 2011 – present | Instructor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine |