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Catherine McKinley, Phd, LMSW

Specialty Areas:

Indigenous women and children, resilience, health disparities

VPI Core Areas

VPI Core Areas: #Intimate Partner Violence

Angles of Approach

#Prevention Intervention

Biography

Dr. Catherine McKinley's research focuses on understanding violence against Native American communities - especially women and children - and its prevention from an Indigenous perspective. Her work identifies culturally specific risk and protective factors from an ecosystemic framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence, illuminating how structural causes are related to violence and associated health disparities. Dr. McKinley uses these factors to inform and adapt a culturally relevant, strengths-based approach to evidence-based prevention options for Indigenous communities.

 

Publications: Google Scholar or ResearchGate

Selected Publications:

Selected Research Grants

K12HD043451                       Krousel-Wood (PI)                    2017-2019
NIH / NICHD
Tulane Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) training program
Grant Amount: $509,024
The long-term goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of highly trained culturally competent, independent, interdisciplinary investigators in Women's Health with an emphasis on Sex Differences research in the field of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related diseases. 
Scholar
 

U54GM104940                       McKinley (PI)                            2018-2019
LA CaTS & NIH
Promoting Cardiovascular Health and Reducing Disparities with Native Americans
Grant Amount: $50,000
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Courses with violence related topics

 

Dr. McKinley’s School of Social Work profile page