Aldair Mejía
Biographic Data
| ID | 259231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aldair Mejía |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aldair |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejía |
| SIGNATURE | MEJÍA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9136-9345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Negligence in biomedical research
Racism is embedded in the fabric of society at structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal levels, working as a mechanism that drives health disparities. In particular, stigmatized views of substance use get entangled with racialization, serving as a tool to uphold oppressive systems. While national health institutions have made commitments to dismantle these systems in the United States, anti-racism has not been integrated into biomed…
The Impact of a Creativity Camp Intervention on Depression and Well-Being in Adolescents
Depression is a serious public health problem that often emerges during adolescence. Many adolescents do not respond to standard treatments, necessitating the development of novel interventions. We conducted a preliminary study to assess the impact of a novel creative arts intervention on depression and well-being in adolescents. In this quasi-experimental study, 69 adolescents 12-17 years completed an 8-day "Creativity Camp" intervention encompa…
Protests in Peru
This conversation is the result of an event that took place on 18 April 2023, as a collaboration with the Humanities Institute of the University of California, Santa Cruz, that aimed to create a space for collective reflection on the multidimensional crises Peru had been facing since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment and in …
Creating an Integrated Undergraduate Public Health Curricula
This article takes a novel approach of highlighting the creation and development of an integrated undergraduate public health curricula geared to students in the health sciences. In our practice, undergraduate and public health pedagogy supports innovative and proven approaches of experiential learning in our classrooms. We show how public health faculty take a team approach to teaching which has allowed them to collaborate in and outside of the …
“Intensity, anxiety … but also, hope?” Reflections on care, whiteness, and emotions by women of color during the virocene
This collaborative autoethnography explores the affective and material effects of the pandemic on our role as Women of Color providing care, engaging in caring, and doing care work at a predominantly white institution (PWI) in the Midwest. Incorporating sociological concepts to explore the racialized dimensions of care work in organizational settings (Hochschild's concepts of emotion labor and emotion work, Kang's work on racialized body labor, a…
Riding the Coronacoaster
This collaborative autoethnography examines how we (four students and a professor of community-engaged research) used our experiences to make sense of life during COVID-19. Engaging in a collective approach to autoethnographic writing, we highlight different perspectives of a cultural moment shaped by the science denialism and untruths that define US governmental practices and approaches to the pandemic. We share how we are dealing with COVID-19 …
Joven, Extranjera, y Deprimida en América
In the spirit of disciplinary disobedience, this autoethnography aims to challenge sociological analyses on the subjective experience of mental health and most plots found in psychiatric memoirs written by U.S. (White) women. Guided by insights from intersectionality theory, Chicanx/Latinx, Black, and Women of Color (WOC) scholarship, this text (re)conceptualizes depression as an embodied social critique, affective logic, and emotional reaction t…
You better check your method before you wreck your method
Motivational Interviewing at the Intersections of Depression and Intimate Partner Violence among African American Women
This article focuses on design, training, and delivery of a culturally tailored, multi-faceted intervention that used motivational interviewing (MI) and case management to reduce depression severity among African American survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). We present the details of the intervention and discuss its implementation as a means of creating and providing culturally appropriate depression and violence services to African Amer…
Proyecto Interconexiones
This study offers promising preliminary data to support the use of community-based approaches to reducing depression disparities in Latina IPV survivors
From madres to mujeristas
Photovoice projects operate within multiple and often contradictory social, political, and cultural contexts. This article describes how Latina madres (mothers) participating in a community health initiative introduced concepts of mujerismo (Latina womanism) to fully incorporate their often marginalized voices into a conversation of minority health inequalities. We argue that a mujerista-led Photovoice challenges dominant assumptions about US Lat…
You Don't Go Tell White People Nothing
Although violence and drug use were central to our participants' understanding of depression, racism was the predominant issue influencing their views on depression care. Providers should develop a greater appreciation of the effects of racism on depression care. Depression care programs should address issues of violence, substance use, and racism
You Don't Go Tell White People Nothing
Although violence and drug use were central to our participants' understanding of depression, racism was the predominant issue influencing their views on depression care. Providers should develop a greater appreciation of the effects of racism on depression care. Depression care programs should address issues of violence, substance use, and racism
From madres to mujeristas
Photovoice projects operate within multiple and often contradictory social, political, and cultural contexts. This article describes how Latina madres (mothers) participating in a community health initiative introduced concepts of mujerismo (Latina womanism) to fully incorporate their often marginalized voices into a conversation of minority health inequalities. We argue that a mujerista-led Photovoice challenges dominant assumptions about US Lat…
Protests in Peru
This conversation is the result of an event that took place on 18 April 2023, as a collaboration with the Humanities Institute of the University of California, Santa Cruz, that aimed to create a space for collective reflection on the multidimensional crises Peru had been facing since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment and in …
Riding the Coronacoaster
This collaborative autoethnography examines how we (four students and a professor of community-engaged research) used our experiences to make sense of life during COVID-19. Engaging in a collective approach to autoethnographic writing, we highlight different perspectives of a cultural moment shaped by the science denialism and untruths that define US governmental practices and approaches to the pandemic. We share how we are dealing with COVID-19 …
Proyecto Interconexiones
This study offers promising preliminary data to support the use of community-based approaches to reducing depression disparities in Latina IPV survivors
You Don't Go Tell White People Nothing
Although violence and drug use were central to our participants' understanding of depression, racism was the predominant issue influencing their views on depression care. Providers should develop a greater appreciation of the effects of racism on depression care. Depression care programs should address issues of violence, substance use, and racism
Proyecto Interconexiones
This study offers promising preliminary data to support the use of community-based approaches to reducing depression disparities in Latina IPV survivors
From madres to mujeristas
Photovoice projects operate within multiple and often contradictory social, political, and cultural contexts. This article describes how Latina madres (mothers) participating in a community health initiative introduced concepts of mujerismo (Latina womanism) to fully incorporate their often marginalized voices into a conversation of minority health inequalities. We argue that a mujerista-led Photovoice challenges dominant assumptions about US Lat…
Motivational Interviewing at the Intersections of Depression and Intimate Partner Violence among African American Women
This article focuses on design, training, and delivery of a culturally tailored, multi-faceted intervention that used motivational interviewing (MI) and case management to reduce depression severity among African American survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). We present the details of the intervention and discuss its implementation as a means of creating and providing culturally appropriate depression and violence services to African Amer…
You better check your method before you wreck your method
Joven, Extranjera, y Deprimida en América
In the spirit of disciplinary disobedience, this autoethnography aims to challenge sociological analyses on the subjective experience of mental health and most plots found in psychiatric memoirs written by U.S. (White) women. Guided by insights from intersectionality theory, Chicanx/Latinx, Black, and Women of Color (WOC) scholarship, this text (re)conceptualizes depression as an embodied social critique, affective logic, and emotional reaction t…
Riding the Coronacoaster
This collaborative autoethnography examines how we (four students and a professor of community-engaged research) used our experiences to make sense of life during COVID-19. Engaging in a collective approach to autoethnographic writing, we highlight different perspectives of a cultural moment shaped by the science denialism and untruths that define US governmental practices and approaches to the pandemic. We share how we are dealing with COVID-19 …
Creating an Integrated Undergraduate Public Health Curricula
This article takes a novel approach of highlighting the creation and development of an integrated undergraduate public health curricula geared to students in the health sciences. In our practice, undergraduate and public health pedagogy supports innovative and proven approaches of experiential learning in our classrooms. We show how public health faculty take a team approach to teaching which has allowed them to collaborate in and outside of the …
“Intensity, anxiety … but also, hope?” Reflections on care, whiteness, and emotions by women of color during the virocene
This collaborative autoethnography explores the affective and material effects of the pandemic on our role as Women of Color providing care, engaging in caring, and doing care work at a predominantly white institution (PWI) in the Midwest. Incorporating sociological concepts to explore the racialized dimensions of care work in organizational settings (Hochschild's concepts of emotion labor and emotion work, Kang's work on racialized body labor, a…
Protests in Peru
This conversation is the result of an event that took place on 18 April 2023, as a collaboration with the Humanities Institute of the University of California, Santa Cruz, that aimed to create a space for collective reflection on the multidimensional crises Peru had been facing since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment and in …
Negligence in biomedical research
Racism is embedded in the fabric of society at structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal levels, working as a mechanism that drives health disparities. In particular, stigmatized views of substance use get entangled with racialization, serving as a tool to uphold oppressive systems. While national health institutions have made commitments to dismantle these systems in the United States, anti-racism has not been integrated into biomed…
The Impact of a Creativity Camp Intervention on Depression and Well-Being in Adolescents
Depression is a serious public health problem that often emerges during adolescence. Many adolescents do not respond to standard treatments, necessitating the development of novel interventions. We conducted a preliminary study to assess the impact of a novel creative arts intervention on depression and well-being in adolescents. In this quasi-experimental study, 69 adolescents 12-17 years completed an 8-day "Creativity Camp" intervention encompa…
Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Depression (economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Nursing (3 works)