Background
Meredith Minkler was born on September 23, 1946, in San Francisco, California, United States. She is the daughter of Roy S. Minkler, an educator, and Frances Minkler, a medical records associate.
Berkeley, CA, United States
University of California
Alameda County, California, United States
Planned Parenthood
Lodhi Gardens, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, Delhi 110003, India
Ford Foundation
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The third edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare provides new and more established ways to approach community building and organizing, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of coalition building, media advocacy, and social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wealth of case studies in areas ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform. A "tool kit" of appendixes includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on our own power and privilege, and training tools such as "policy bingo." From former organizer and now President Barack Obama to academics and professionals in the fields of public health, social work, urban planning, and community psychology, the book offers a comprehensive vision and on-the-ground examples of the many ways community building and organizing can help us address some of the most intractable health and social problems of our times. Dr. Minkler's course syllabus: Although Dr. Minkler has changed the order of some chapters in the syllabus to accommodate guest speakers and help students prep for the midterm assignment she uses, she arranged the actual book layout in a way that should flow quite naturally if instructors wish to use it in the order in which chapters appear. The third edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare provides new and more established ways to approach community building and organizing, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of coalition building, media advocacy, and social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wealth of case studies in areas ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform. A "tool kit" of appendixes includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on our own power and privilege, and training tools such as "policy bingo." From former organizer and now President Barack Obama to academics and professionals in the fields of public health, social work, urban planning, and community psychology, the book offers a comprehensive vision and on-the-ground examples of the many ways community building and organizing can help us address some of the most intractable health and social problems of our times. Dr. Minkler's course syllabus: Although Dr. Minkler has changed the order of some chapters in the syllabus to accommodate guest speakers and help students prep for the midterm assignment she uses, she arranged the actual book layout in a way that should flow quite naturally if instructors wish to use it in the order in which chapters appear.
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Meredith Minkler was born on September 23, 1946, in San Francisco, California, United States. She is the daughter of Roy S. Minkler, an educator, and Frances Minkler, a medical records associate.
Minkler earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of California in Berkeley in 1969, as well as Doctor of Public Health degree in 1975.
Minkler began her career at the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India, working as a family planning associate there, from 1970 till 1971. For a year from 1972, she held the position of an education associate at the organization Planned Parenthood. Minkler then moved to the University of California in Berkeley, where she has served as a professor of public health education from 1975.
Currently, Minkler is also a Director of the Doctor of Public Health Leadership Program at the School of Public Health at the University of California. Minkler's current research includes a national study documenting the impacts of Community-based participatory research (CBPR) on health-promoting public policy, a state wide program building senior leadership in healthy aging and community building. She has publilshed more than 100 articles in journals and 7 books including the co-edited volume, Community Based Participatory Research for Health (with Nina Wallerstein; Jossey-Bass) and the 2005 edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health (Rutgers University Press).
She is also a co-founder of Center on Aging, as well as a member of scientific advisory board of the Buck Center for Research on Aging.
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Quotations: "I write to inspire students and other professionals in the fields of public health, social welfare, and gerontology. I try to combine passion and scholarship, and to help professionals feel the need for changing the status quo, rather than merely understanding it."
Minkler is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Society for Public Health Education. She is also a past chairperson of the Health Education Section of the American Public Health Association.
Minkler married Jerry Peters on September 2, 1989. The couple has a child - Jason.