Hope Landrine, PhD, is the director of the Center for Health Disparities, and professor of psychology and professor of public health in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on social and cultural factors in African-American disparities in chronic diseases and health behaviors. Specifically, she examines the role of residential segregation, community poverty, racial discrimination, and African-American acculturation in cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and in their associated health behaviors including smoking, physical activity, diet, substance use and cancer screening.
Landrine earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Westminster College and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social psychology at Stanford University, and a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Prevention and Control at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Prior to her positions at East Carolina University, she was the director of multicultural health behavior research at the American Cancer Society.
Landrine is a fellow in APA Divs. 9, 45, 38, 35, and 50 for her outstanding contributions to research on social issues, racial-ethnic minorities, health, women and substance use/addictions. She also is a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. In 2012, she was honored with the APA Div. 45 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to research on racial-ethnic Minorities, and she has received numerous other national awards for research. She has published more than 125 articles and books, and published one of the first textbooks on cancer disparities. She has obtained over $11 million in individual research grants, and currently participates in two, multi-million dollar, multi-state, Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCORI) grants. The PCORI grants are community-engaged projects on racial and socioeconomic disparities in stroke and hypertension, and focus on improving patient outcomes. Landrine was one of the first recipients of the APA Minority Fellowship, and states that she could not have attended graduate school without the APA Minority Fellowship Program.
References
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/publichealth/faculty/upload/Hope_Landrine_Curriculum_Vitae.pdf
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/publichealth/faculty/hopeLandrine.cfm