Maia Ingram is the Co-Director of the University of Arizona Center for Participatory Prevention, Evaluation and Action Research (PEAR Center( and a member of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences in the College of Public Health where she teaches graduate courses in public health advocacy and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Ms. Ingram has expertise CBPR, participatory evaluation and qualitative research methods which she has applied in partnership with community health centers, local health departments and grassroots agencies in rural, urban and US-Mexico border communities. Research efforts have focused on evaluation of community health worker interventions with Mexican-origin populations to address health promotion, chronic disease management, mental health, hearing loss, and environmental health, as well as environment and policy change. Ms. Ingram is interested in efforts to promote the sustainability and compensation of the CHW workforce and collaborated closely with the Arizona CHW Association and CHW stakeholders to pass CHW Voluntary Certification in 2018 and achieve Arizona AHCCCS/Medicaid CHW reimbursement in 2022. 
 

Education:

M.P.H                         Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1996.

B.A.                            Theatre, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1986.

Research Areas:

• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Farmworker health
• Border health
• Policy and structural change
• Community health workers 

Selected Publications and Scholarly Works:

Ingram, M., Sabo, S., Rothers, J. et al. Community Health Workers and Community Advocacy: Addressing Health Disparities. J Community Health 33, 417–424 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-008-9111-y

Ingram, M., Wolf, A.M.A., López-Gálvez, N.I. et al. Proposing a social ecological approach to address disparities in occupational exposures and health for low-wage and minority workers employed in small businesses. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 31, 404–411 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00317-5

Ingram, Maia MPH; Piper, Rosalinda; Kunz, Susan MPH; Navarro, Cecilia DDS; Sander, Alicia; Gastelum, Sylvia. Salud Sí: A Case Study for the Use of Participatory Evaluation in Creating Effective and Sustainable Community-Based Health Promotion. Family & Community Health 35(2):p 130-138, April/June 2012. | DOI: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e31824650ed

Languages Spoken:

Spanish, English