Lorenda Belone
RWJF Center for Health Policy Fellow
Ms. Lorenda Belone is Navajo and from the reservation community of Mexican Spring, NM. She is a Health Communication Ph.D. Candidate within the University of New Mexico Department of Communication and Journalism and is a Research Scientist with the Center for Participatory Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Ms. Lorenda Belone is Navajo and from the reservation community of Mexican Spring, NM. She is a Health Communication Ph.D. Candidate within the University of New Mexico Department of Communication and Journalism and is a Research Scientist with the Center for Participatory Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She received her M.P.H. from UNM with an epidemiology concentration where she gained valuable research experience and knowledge while being mentored by Drs. Nina Wallerstein and John Oetzel. She has been trained in Community Based Participatory Research and has over nine years of CBPR experience with working with both Native American Pueblo and Navajo communities. She currently works on the Family Listening Project, a translational research project adapting an intergenerational family intervention trial that brings inquiry into culturally specific communication concepts in the model. Her research area of interest focuses on the role of health communication strategies for translational research that involves the community as participants in a two way mutual learning situation to improve community health, particularly tribal communities of the Southwest.
