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Anna Wilkinson

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

512/391-2528

University of Texas Administration Building
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300, Austin, TX 78701

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About

Anna Wilkinson, Ph.D. joined the UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin and the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living in July 2010; she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in community psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996. After completing her PhD, she moved to Kansas, where she completed a post-doc in social epidemiology at the Kansas Health Institute. In 2000 she moved to Houston Texas to join the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and in 2003 she joined the faculty in the Department of Epidemiology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Anna Wilkinson’s research focuses on the primary prevention of tobacco and alcohol use as well as obesity prevention and the promotion of physical activity among youth and young adults. She is interested in the relative role that individual-level factors (such as subjective and objective social status, sensation seeking tendencies), social factors (such as norms, family / peer behavior, and the built environment), and genetic factors may play in shaping these behaviors. Dr. Wilkinson also is interested in the relationship between acculturation and health behaviors in minority and immigrant populations, and in particular among people of Hispanic heritage. In 2008, she received a Career Development award from the National Cancer Institute to study the interactions between, and relative influence of, non-genetic and genetic determinants of smoking initiation and physical activity among Mexican heritage youth. Currently she is involved in the Texas-based evaluation of SNAP-ED, and serves as a co-investigator on the Dr. Harrell’s NIH-funded project that follows a cohort of youth into young adulthood to examine their tobacco use behaviors.

Center Affiliation

Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

Research Interests

  • Adolescent Health
  • Behavioral/Mental Health
  • Border Health
  • Genetics and -omics
  • Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Use
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