Michele Allen, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research

Expertise

Health disparities research

Education

MD, University of Minnesota
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ramsey Family and Community Medicine Residency (formerly in St. Paul)

Bio

Allen completed a fellowship in primary care research and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, prior to joining department faculty and the Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research in 2006. She is active in health disparities research and scholarship and serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals.

Contact Information

717 Delaware St SE, Ste 166
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-625-4760
miallen@umn.edu

Current Grants

2010-15, NIH, investigator, "Family-Skills Training to Prevent Tobacco and Other Substance Use in Latino Youth"

2009-14, CDC, co-investigator, MN-PRC core research project (title TBD)

2011-12, UMN CTSI, primary investigator, “Development of a Teacher-focused Substance Use Prevention and Resiliency Promotion Intervention for Somali, Latino, and Hmong Youth”

Recent Publications

Warren JR, Sloan P, Allen ML, Okuyemi KS. Exploring children's secondhand smoke exposure with early child care providers. Am J Prev Med. 2010;39(6S1):S44-7.

Culhane-Pera K, Allen ML, Call K, et al. Improving health through community-based participatory action research. Giving immigrants and refugees a voice. Minnesota Medicine. 2010;93(4):54-7.

Allen ML, Call K, Pergament S, Culhane-Pera K. Facilitating research faculty participation in CBPR: Development of a model based on key informant interviews. Clinical and Translational Science. 2010;3(5):233-8.

Allen ML, Call K, Pergament S, Culhane-Pera K. A capacity building program to promote CBPR partnerships between academic researchers and community members. Clinical and Translational Science. 2010;4(6):428-33.

Allen R, Allen ML, Hurtado GA. Voices of Latino immigrant parents: Lessons learned through collaborative development of a parent education program to prevent substance use by Latino teens. National Council on Family Relations – Report, Family Focus on Immigration/Migration. 2009;54(3):29-31.