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Mark Padilla
Funded Research:
Economic crisis, residential instability, and changing sexual geographies of Detroit youth (Ford Foundation)
High-Use Alcohol Venues: Tourism, Sex Work and HIV in the Dominican Republic (NIAAA)
Injection Practices and HIV Risk Behavior among Transgendered Persons in Puerto Rico (NIDA)
Social Vulnerabilities and HIV/AIDS Risk Among African American and Latino Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in Detroit (Ford Foundation)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education.
Ph.D., Emory University
Dr. Padilla is a medical anthropologist with experience in international health and program evaluation in Latin America. His current focus is on HIV/AIDS prevention among various populations of men who have sex with men.
Recent Publications
Books
Padilla, Mark. 2007. Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Padilla, Mark, Jennifer Hirsch, Robert Sember, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, and Richard Parker (eds). 2007. Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Journal Articles
Padilla, Mark. Forthcoming. "Between the Casa and the Calle: The Uses of Ambiguity and Contradiction among Dominican Male Sex Workers Serving a Tourist Clientele." Latin American Perspectives.
Padilla, Mark, V. Guilamo-Ramos, and R. Godbole. 2012. "A Syndemic Analysis of Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Tourism Employees in Sosua, Dominican Republic." Qualitative Health Research, 22(1): 89-102. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Haile, Rahwa, Mark Padilla, and Edith A. Parker. 2011. "'Stuck in the quagmire of an HIV ghetto': the meaning of stigma in the lives of older black gay and bisexual men living with HIV in New York City." Culture, Health & Sexuality, 13(4): 429 - 442. PMCID: PMC3053418. DOI. Abstract.
Estrada-Martínez, L.M., Mark Padilla, C.H. Caldwell, and A.J. Schulz. 2011. "Examining the Influence of Family Environments on Youth Violence: A Comparison of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, non-Latino Black, and non-Latino White Adolescents." Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40(8): 1039-1051. DOI.
Keene, Danya, and Mark Padilla. 2010. "Race, class and the stigma of place: Moving to "opportunity" in Eastern Iowa." Health & Place, 16(6): 1216-1223. PMCID: PMC2964645. DOI.
Keene, Danya, Mark Padilla, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2010. "Leaving Chicago for Iowa's "Fields of Opportunity": Community Dispossession, Rootlessness, and the Quest for Somewhere to "Be OK"." Human Organization, 69(3): 275 - 284. PMCID: PMC2964883. Public Access.
Padilla, Mark, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Alida Bouris, and Armando Matiz Reyes. 2010. "HIV/AIDS and Tourism in the Caribbean: An Ecological Systems Perspective." American Journal of Public Health, 100(1): 70-77. PMCID: PMC2791250. DOI. Local Access.
Padilla, Mark, and Daniel Castellanos. 2008. "Discourses of homosexual invasion in the dominican global imaginary." Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 5(4): 31-44. DOI.