A M Cheney

Biographic Data

ID6495
NAMEA M Cheney
GIVEN NAMESA M
FAMILY NAMECheney
SIGNATURECHENEY A M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
ORCID0000-0002-4032-6692
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Empowering promotoras through community-based participatory research in Latinx and Indigenous Mexican communities during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessA M Cheney, Erica Li et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: This study describes an innovative community-based participatory research model that engages community health workers/promotoras as research partners to address health inequities among Latinx and Indigenous Mexican immigrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Using ethnographic and qualitative research methods, we collaborated with promotoras trained in qualitative data collection and analysis to conduct seven focus …

  • Ripple Effects Mapping

    Open AccessEvelyn Vázquez, Isabel Duong et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    INTRODUCTION: Community-academic partnerships played an important role in addressing Covid-19-related health disparities in historically marginalised groups such as racial ethnic minorities and low-income and rural communities in the pandemic. Part of the federal response involved establishing regional community academic networks that engaged highly impacted communities in health disparities research. The statewide Share, Trust, Organize, Partner…

  • Coma, Muévase y Viva

    Open AccessJuliano Soares Rabello Moreira, Andrea Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The culturally tailored ¡Coma, Muévase y Viva!, intervention offers a promising curriculum to increase access to public health education and promote chronic disease prevention and management in low-income, rural immigrant populations through changes in diet and lifestyle

  • Understanding the role of mothers and other caregivers in the context of infant feeding using the family ecological model

    Open AccessAndrea Ramirez, Evelyn Vázquez et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025References: 43

  • Research

    Open AccessA M CheneyARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2025References: 8

    Terms like community engaged research and community-based participatory research risk losing their meaning and significance in health equity research. This article calls attention to potential overuse of such terms in applied health research with historically marginalized populations. Reflecting on essays that advocate for decolonizing research, this article considers ways to engage in research that does not enact epistemicide or the erasure of d…

  • Creating Cultures of Health in the Academy

    Open AccessA M Cheney, Evelyn Vázquez et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2024

    This article reports on a 3-year longitudinal study focused on the impact of cross-sector, collective impact approaches to creating cultures of campus health. The study sought to understand the integration of health and well-being concepts into university operations, including business practices and policies, as well as the contribution of public health initiatives focused on health-promoting universities to creating cultures of campus health for…

  • Toward decolonized fiscal relationships between universities and community organizations

    Open AccessNancy J Burke, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2024

    Author(s): Burke, Nancy J; Espinosa, Patricia Rodriguez; Corchado, Claudia C; Vázquez, Evelyn; Rosas, Lisa G; Wooe, Kent J; LeSarre, Monique; Gallegos-Castillo, Angela; Cheney, Ann; Lo, David D; Hintz, Rachel; Vassar, Stefanie D; Brown, Arleen F

  • Partnering With Community Health Workers to Address Covid-19 Health Inequities

    Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, Evelyn Vázquez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2024Cited by: 1References: 12

    With funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Community Engagement Alliance, starting in fall 2020, 11 academic medical centers and 75 community partners came together as the California Alliance Against COVID-19 to address COVID-19 inequities in California. Using data from focus groups, statewide meetings, and a statewide partner survey, we describe how promotoras and community health workers (P/CHWs; n = 540) helped to promote access to …

  • Seeking care across the US-Mexico border

    Open AccessGabriela Ortiz, Sylvia Rodríguez et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024References: 37

    This study shows the importance of geography in health. Rural unincorporated colonias located in the borderlands are precariously located and lack basic critical infrastructure including healthcare access. Within such places, historically and socially marginalized populations become invisible, are subject to the health effects of environmental hazards, and are limited depending on their positionality and thus vulnerability to healthcare services

  • Social determinants of health among noncitizen deported US veterans

    Open AccessFrances Tao, Cassidy T Lee et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    This qualitative study examines the social determinants of health among noncitizen deported United States veterans. We utilized Photovoice, a participatory action research method used to inform structural level change, with 12 veterans. Audio-recorded semi-structured interviews explored photos and discussed deportation’s effects on veteran health. We performed rapid template and matrix analysis of interview transcripts. Interviews were conducted …

  • Historical Wisdom

    Open AccessJ Mcmullin, A M Cheney et al.ARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2023

    Using anti-oppressive methodologies, the Chihuum Piiuywmk Inach/Gathering of Good Minds (CPI/GoGM) project reimagined inclusive pathways for data analysis in health equity Community Engaged Research (CER). Transformations in CER methodologies that decenter colonial and institutional systems of oppression and center Indigenous epistemologies are on the rise. There is, however, a paucity of guidance on data analysis in CER. The CPI/GoGM’s historica…

  • Continuum of Trauma

    Open AccessEvelyn Vázquez, Preeti Juturu et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2023

    Historical, cultural, and social trauma, along with social determinants of health (SDOH), shape health outcomes, attitudes toward medicine, government, and health behaviors among communities of color in the United States (U.S.). This study explores how trauma and fear influence COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Black/African American, Latinx/Indigenous Latin American, and Native American/Indigenous communities. Leveraging community-based par…

  • Latinx and Indigenous Mexican Caregivers’ Perspectives of the Salton Sea Environment on Children’s Asthma, Respiratory Health, and Co-Presenting Health Conditions

    Open AccessA M Cheney, Gabriela Ortiz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    This research investigated Latinx and Indigenous Mexican caregivers' perspectives of the Salton Sea's environment (e.g., dust concentrations and other toxins) on child health conditions. The Salton Sea is a highly saline drying lakebed located in the Inland Southern California desert borderland region and is surrounded by agricultural fields. Children of Latinx and Indigenous Mexican immigrant families are especially vulnerable to the Salton Sea'…

  • Ancestral recipes”

    Open AccessA M Cheney, William J Mccarthy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This study brought together patients and key stakeholders committed to addressing the social determinants of health and it mobilized the community to develop culturally vetted health education materials. The findings indicate the need for increased access to evidence-based nutrition education and to culturally appropriate food products that can be easily incorporated into daily food preparation

  • Personal Freedom and Social Responsibility in Slowing the Spread of Covid-19

    Open AccessEvelyn Vázquez, Julie Chobdee et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2022

    This rapid qualitative exploratory study focused on perceptions of adopting risk-reduction measures, such as face masks, on campuses within institutions of higher education in the United States. It was intended to identify safety measures to reduce virus spread and develop community-informed public health messaging to promote COVID-19 risk-reduction strategies within campus communities. This study was approved by the institutional review board wh…

  • The Intersection of Workplace and Environmental Exposure on Health in Latinx Farm Working Communities in Rural Inland Southern California

    Open AccessA M Cheney, Tatiana Barrera et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Workplace and environmental exposures pose health risks for racial/ethnic minorities in rural agricultural communities, placing them at a disadvantage in accessing needed health care. Over three fourths (76%) of the 2.4 million farmworkers in the United States are immigrants, mostly from Mexico. However, little is known of the community health concerns and barriers to care of Latinx farmworkers in inland southern California. This qualitative stud…

  • Perceptions of the Coronavirus and Covid-19 testing and vaccination in Latinx and Indigenous Mexican immigrant communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley

    Open AccessDaniel Gehlbach, Evelyn Vázquez et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    This immigrant population is structurally vulnerable to historical and present-day inequalities that put them at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure, morbidity, and mortality. Study findings indicate a significant need for interventions that decrease structural vulnerabilities by addressing issues of (dis)trust in government and public health among this population

  • Challenges to Engaging Women Veterans in Quality Improvement From Patient Care to Policy

    Open AccessTanya T Olmos‐Ochoa, Tanya T Olmos-Ochoa et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2022

    There may be unanticipated benefits to health care policy from engaging patients in QI, especially for patients with unique health care needs who represent a minority within the health care system. However, managers require training and workflow integration of patient engagement tasks to increase their efficiency and allow for meaningful patient engagement

  • Managers' and Leaders’ Perceptions of Sexual and Gender-Based Public Harassment in the Veterans Health Administration

    Open AccessShay Cannedy, Karen E Dyer et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2022

  • Overcoming Barriers to Health Care Access in Rural Latino Communities

    Open AccessMonica Tulimiero, Michael Garcia et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Latino farmworkers lack access to basic needs, including health care services. These farmworkers face barriers common to rural areas (eg, limited health services and public transportation), as well as language barriers, an unfamiliar medical system, no health insurance, and income-based financial challenges exacerbated by a lack of workers' rights. METHODS: This study involved focus group discussions to elicit community health prior…

  • Grow well/Crecer bien

    Open AccessA M Cheney, T Nieri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    We outline a study methodology to examine feeding styles and practices and their association with early childhood obesity risk and enhance an existing intervention to promote healthy infant feeding and growth among children in low-income families

  • Using Deliberative and Qualitative Methods to Recommend Revisions to the Medicaid Sterilization Waiting Period

    Open AccessPriya Batra, Katheryn Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2020

  • Engaging Stakeholders in the Healthy Campus Movement

    A M Cheney, Julie Chobdee et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2020

    For institutions of higher education, the Culture of Health Framework is ideal to engage stakeholders to take action to create and build cultures of health

  • The Sociocultural Factors Underlying Latina Mothers’ Infant Feeding Practices

    Open AccessA M Cheney, T Nieri et al.ARTICLEGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research2019

    In this study, we examined the sociocultural factors underlying infant feeding practices. We conducted four focus groups with 19 Latina mothers of children 0 to 2 years of age enrolled in Early Head Start programs in the United States over a 1-year period. We found these mothers considered both science- and family-based feeding recommendations. However, advice from family was often inconsistent with science- and nutrition-based recommended feedin…

  • The Morality of Disordered Eating and Recovery in Southern Italy

    Open AccessA M Cheney, Steve Sullivan et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2018Cited by: 3References: 31

    Scholars have traced the processes through which moral subjectivities are constituted in culturally meaningful ways through eating disorders and recovery practices, demonstrating how subjective meanings of eating disorders and recovery from them are imbued with moral undertones and become meaningful ways of existing within specific historical and cultural contexts. Drawing on ethnographic insights and interviews with young women with disordered e…