Shir Ginzburg

Shir Lerman Ginzburg, PhD, MPH is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UConn Health. Her research interests currently focus on environmental health and justice among underserved communities near busy roadways. She is trained as a medical anthropologist and public health professional, and has conducted research in syndemics, chronic illness, mental health, obesity, diabetes, mindfulness, the Zika Virus, and Puerto Rico. She received her PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Connecticut, where she identified a new syndemic in Puerto Rico: the OVIDD Syndemic (Obesity, structural Violence, political Instability, Diabetes, and Depression). She completed her NIH-funded fellowship in implementation science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where she studied the correlation between mindfulness and mental health outcomes among underserved communities in the greater Boston area. She has coedited three books, Foundations of BioSocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions; StigmaSyndemics: New Directions in BioSocial Health;and Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.  She has also published research articles in journals such as Medical Anthropology, Journal of Public Health, Transcultural Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology Theory, and PLOS One.

sginzburg@uchc.edu