Affiliate Faculty

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

Associate Teaching Professor, Arizona State University College of Integrative Sciences and Arts

Rajni L. Nair is an Associate Teaching Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. Her research focuses on understanding the impacts that culturally based parenting practices have on Latinx youth adjustment. Additionally, her work is focused on highlighting how stressors shape the psychosocial adjustment of Latinx youth. She is particularly interested in understanding malleable family and school level factors that can promote positive youth development and psychosocial functioning among minority youth.

Associate Professor, University of Arizona College of Nursing, Community & Systems Health Science Division

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Professor, Human Development and Family Science

We all drove to Phoenix and testified together to the Arizona Liquor License Board. Youth provided personal testimonies, I shared my research, community leaders testified, policemen gave examples, and government officials spoke.  We thought our small town didn’t stand a chance against a giant corporation.  When the board voted to uphold the local government’s decision to deny the liquor license WOW!-we realized that we did it! It was a major victory and the accumulation of all those years of collaboration and prevention work paid off.

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

• Investigate how social lives constitute both risk and resilience for physical health.
• Emphasis on racial/ethnic and cultural differences in the above effects.
• Use of a variety of methods including community and hospital-based observational studies, surveys, ecological momentary assessment, ambulatory psychophysiology, and laboratory based paradigms.
• The lab’s current foci include studies of stress and cardiovascular risk, as well as the Hispanic Health Paradox.

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

I have always been an observer of people — as a child within my large, extended Italian family, in school and in my career. I am intrigued by people’s behavior.

Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona, College of Medicine

Specialty:
Adolescent Medicine

Board Certifications:
American Board of Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics

Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona

Dr. Ada M. Wilkinson-Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Arizona Prevention Research Center (AzPRC) UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Professor, ASU School of Social Work - Tucson, Arizona State University