Rachel H. Adler

Dr. Rachel Adler is a seasoned anthropologist and a psychiatric nurse practitioner with extensive experience conducting qualitative and mixed methods research with vulnerable populations. Her book, Yucatecans in Dallas Texas, Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance is based on over two years of intensive, binational, ethnographic research with a community of Mexican migrants in Texas. In her more current work, she merges her social science expertise in culture, ethnicity and gender with her extensive clinical knowledge of psychiatry and psycho-oncology. This combination of skills makes her uniquely prepared to conduct culturally relevant interventional research with cancer survivors in the University of Arizona Cancer Center's predominantly Hispanic catchment area.  Rachel Adler became a nurse during her first sabbatical to broaden her skill set in medical anthropology and to become a more effective researcher with real world impact. For more than a decade, Dr. Adler has connected her nursing practice to her anthropological scholarship to advance translational science, serving as site PI and co-investigator on several federal grants, allowing her to contribute to the literature on psychosocial oncology, psychiatry, men's mental health, research methods, and veteran's health.