Current Research

• Founder/Director, Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy  Center
• REACH Center of Excellence for Eliminating Disease. CDC. Principal Investigator, September 2007-September 2012.
• REACH Action Community, CDC . Subcontract. September 2007-September 2012.
• Public Education . Illinois Department of Public Health. Principal Investigator, July 2007-June 2008.
• Barriers to Access to Care . Illinois Department of Public Health. Principal Investigator, July 2007-June 2008.
• Chicago Community Trust Fellowship . Studying health care reforms/universal health care systems; cultural competency in the delivery of health and human services, and the management and control of chronic diseases (e.g., diabetes, asthma, cancer, cardiovascular conditions) in about 10 Latin America countries in an attempt to identify best/promising practices to transfer to the Chicago area. Principal Investigator, July 2007 to August 2008.
• National Consumer Network for Genetics Education. March of Dimes. Co-Principal Investigator, June 2007-May 2010.
• Improving the Safety and Health of Minority Worker. TKC. Integration Services, LLC. Principal Investigator, April 2007-April 2008.
• Hispanic Community Health Study (HCHS) . National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Co-Principal Investigator of the Chicago Field Center (10% FTE), (Daviglus, M., PI, Northwestern University, Dept of Preventive Medicine). September 2006-March 2013.
• Building Better Bones. Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Principal Investigator. July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007.
• Latino Needs Assessment. Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Principal Investigator, May 1, 2006-December 31, 2006.
• Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Principal Investigator, April 1, 2006-September 30, 2006.
• Work Safety and Health Disparities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Several Small Awards. Principal Investigator, May 2004 - present.
• Southeast Chicago Diabetes Community Action Coalition- Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH). (CDC). Principal Investigator, September 1999 - present.

Teaching

• Participatory Action Research
• Health care system and Policies
• Social Welfare Policies and Services
• Human Services Organizations and Administration
• Health Social Work
• Diversity in Multicultural society

Selected Recent Publications

Book Chapters

Mullner, R., & Giachello, A.L. (2005) Asthma. In S. Oboler & D.J. González (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas , 1 (pp. 133-135). Oxford , NY : Oxford University Press.

Mullner, R., & Giachello, A.L. (2005) Health. In S. Oboler & D.J. González (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas , 2 (pp. 265-272). Oxford , NY : Oxford University Press.

Mullner, R., & Giachello, A.L. (2005) Health Care Access. In S. Oboler & D.J. González (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas, 2 . (pp. 276-281). Oxford , NY : Oxford University Press.

Giachello, A.L., Rodríguez, G., & Sayad, J. (2001). From data to social action: A case study of community-university partnership for environmental justice. In M. Sullivan & J.G. Kelly (Eds.), Collaborative research: University and community partnership (pp. 191-216). Washington , DC : American Public Health Association. (Refereed).

Giachello, A.L. (2001). The reproductive years: The health of Latinas. In M. Aguirre-Molina, C. Molina & R.E. Zambrana (Eds.), Health issues in the Latino community (pp. 107-156). San Francisco , CA : Jossey-Bass.

Giachello, A.L. (1998). Hispanic/Latino women's health. In L.A. Wallis, et al. (Eds.), Textbook of women's health (pp. 69-76). Philadelphia , PA : Lippincott-Raven.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

Ramirez, A., Gallion, K., Suarez, L., Giachello, A.L. , Marti, J., Medrano, M., Perez-Stable, E., Talavera, G., & Trapido, E. (2005). A national agenda for Latino cancer prevention and control. Cancer, 103(11), 2209-2215.

Torres, B., Hickson, M., Allen, M.P., Giachello, A.L ., Ramos-Hernández, C.R., & Partida, Y. (2004). Effective communication to prevent infectious disease in women. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10(11), November 2004, available from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no11/04-0623_13.htm

Giachello, A.L., Arrom, J.O., Davis , M. Sayad, J.V., Ramirez, D., Chandana, N. & Ramos, C. (2003). Reducing diabetes health disparities through community-based participatory action research: The Chicago Southeast diabetes community action coalition. Public Health Reports, 118 (4), 309-323.

Lipton, R.B., Losey, L.M., Giachello, A.L ., Mendez, J. & Girotti, M.H. (1998). Attitudes and issues in treating Latino patients with type 2 diabetes: Views of healthcare providers. The Diabetes Educator, 24 (1), 67-71.

Giachello, A.L., & Belgrave, F. (1997). Task group VI: Health care systems and behavior. Journal of Gender, Culture and Health, 2 (2), 163-174.

Giachello, A.L. (1997). The health status of Latinas in the United States. Psychline Inter ­ -Transdisciplinary Journal of Mental Health, 2 (1), 6-10.

Giachello, A.L. (1996). Guest Editor. Special edition on Latino Health Outcomes Research, Journal of Medical Systems, 20(5) October. 

Affiliations, Associations, & Consultations 

Editorial Reviews

Ad Hoc Reviewer for:

• Journal of the American Medical Association
• Journal of the American Public Health Association
• Journal of General Internal Medicine
• Journal of Ethnicity and Disease Review Board
• Sage Publications
• Hispanic Book Series Publication
• American Psychological Association
• Assisted in the edition of some sessions of Special Editions on minority research