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Alice Cepeda, PhD
Community Engagement and Dissemination Co-leader / Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work


BIO

 

Dr. Alice Cepeda serves on the IAS Steering Committee & Co-Leader of the IAS Community Engagement & Dissemination research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal. IAS acknowledges that addiction service delivery is a complex phenomenon that requires scientific rigor to support evidence-based activities along the entire spectrum of service from prevention to sustaining recovery. The Institute is committed to counteracting racism and health equity through concerted community engagement efforts led by this group.

Dr. Cepeda is an associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. She was previously in the Department of Sociology and the Associate Director of the Center for Drug and Social Policy Research at the University of Houston. Dr. Cepeda received her doctoral degree from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Nowotny, K. M., Valdez, A., & Cepeda, A. (2023). Syndemic Profiles for HIV, Hepatitis C, and Sextually Transmitted Infections Among Mexican American Women Formerly Affiliated with Youth Street Gangs. AIDS and behavior, 27(2), 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03773-8. PMCID: PMC9286305

     

  • Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., Frankeberger, J., & Nowotny, K. M.  (2022). The opioid epidemic among the Latino population in California. Drug and alcohol dependence reports, 2, 100029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100029. PMCID: PMC9948808.

     

  • Cepeda, A., Nowotny, K.M., Frankeberger, J., Ramirez, E., Purdue, T., Valdez, A., Rodriguez, V.E. (2020). Examination of Multilevel Domains of Minority Stress: Implications for Drug Use and Mental and Physical Health among Latina Women who have sex with Women and Men. PLOS One, 15(3): e0230437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230437. PMCID: PMC7098621.

     

  • Cepeda, A., Nowotny, K.M., Frankeberger, J., Saint Onge, J.M., Valdez, A. (2018) Biological Risk and Infection Profiles of Young Adult Male Mexican American Gang Members. Public Health Reports.

  • Nowotny, K.M., Frankeberger, J., Rodriguez, V., Valdez, A.,  Cepeda, A. (2018) Mexican American Women Living in a Disadvantaged Community. Behavioral Medicine.

  • Cepeda, A., Frankeberger, J., Bailey, J.L., Nowotny, K.M., Natera-Rey, G., Valdez, A. (2016) HIV and STI Knowledge, Testing, and Risk Among Adult Crack Users in Mexico City: Baseline Findings from a Feasibility Study. AIDS Care.