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CSDE Research Affiliate

Anna Zamora-Kapoor

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences, Washington State University
Washington State University
Tel: 206-708-8624
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CSDE Research Areas:

  • Health of People and Populations
  • Migration and Settlement
  • Wellbeing of Families and Households

In the News:

Anna Zamora-Kapoor earned her Ph.D. and Masters in Sociology from Columbia University, and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Barcelona. She conducted her graduate studies with three multi-year awards from the Caja Madrid Foundation, the Talentia Fellowship, and the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellowship at Columbia. Anna was also a pre-doctoral Visiting Scholar at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where she worked with Prof. Sara Curran. After a position as Postdoctoral Senior Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a member of the University of Washington’s Partnerships for Native Health, she became an Assistant Research Professor for the Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) with Washington State University, and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences at Washington State University. Her research seeks to reveal the social determinants of obesity, their variability across racial and ethnic groups, and the role of food distribution programs in the reproduction of health disparities. Anna recently became the Principal Investigator of a pilot grant which leverages data from the Cerebrovascular Disease and its Consequences in American Indians (CDCAI) study to examine sex differences in the associations between obesity and cognitive performance among CDCAI participants, the potential role of body fat distribution, and the mediation effects of vascular brain injury (Native Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research – Research Education Center (NIA)).  For more information please see Anna's CV.