Julia G. Borovay, Dr.P.H., is a lecturer in the USC Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research [HP]. She teaches three HP courses: Cultural Competency; Culture, Lifestyle, and Health; and Eastern Medicine and Modern Health. Her..
Julia G. Borovay, Dr.P.H., is a lecturer in the USC Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research [HP]. She teaches three HP courses: Cultural Competency; Culture, Lifestyle, and Health; and Eastern Medicine and Modern Health. Her research interests are in the areas of cultural competence in health care; health belief models, and patient compliance with recommended medical treatment plans. She was formerly project director for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services pediatric HIV/AIDS surveillance project and for the perinatal hepatitis B prevention program. She recently participated for five years as research ethnographer for a CDC-sponsored intervention study of parental efficacy in a recruited population of low-income mothers through the UCLA Department of Pediatrics and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International. Dr. Borovay received her M.A. in anthropology at CSU, Chico, and a graduate degree in linguistics from the University of California, Davis. She earned her doctorate in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Julia G. Borovay, Dr.P.H.
Part-time lecturer
Academic Background:
M.A. Anthropology; CSUC, 1982
T.E.S.O.L. (Linguistics) U.C. Davis, 1984
Dr.P.H., UCLA, 1993.
August 2008
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Global Studies
