Associate professor of Social Work at the Univerity of Texas at El Paso
About
Eva M. Moya is a native of the US-Mexico border. Eva has a doctor of philosophy in interdisciplinary health sciences from the University of Texas at El Paso, a master of science degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin. With more than 35 years of professional experience in the US-Mexico border region, she is considered a specialist in border health.
Dr. Moya was named by Latino Leaders National Magazine in 1994 as one of the top 10 Latinas in health care. Eva has published a number of papers on health disparities and infectious disease in Mexico and the US-Mexico border region and coauthored several books. Her expertise includes sexual and reproductive health; homelessness; use of Photovoice method; community-engaged scholarship; tuberculosis and stigma; and intimate partner violence.
Eva served as director for the US Section of the US-Mexico Border Health Commission, the Border Vision Fronteriza Outreach Project with the University of Arizona, Centro San Vicente Social Services, and women’s health and youth sexuality education endeavors in Mexico. She directed the Border TB Photovoice Project and was the Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization coordinator for PCI, and the PIMSA Transborder TB and Stigma Project.
She is an associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Texas at El Paso. Eva conducted studies throughout the world during her tenure as a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and is active in Kellogg Fellowship Leadership Alliance board. Her research interests include: TB and stigma, women and migration, U.S.-Mexico border health, homelessness, HPV, and community-based participatory research approaches like the Photovoice method.
Current Work:
Dr. Moya is particularly interested in these three cross-cutting themes: Cross-cultural competency; social and behavioral health sciences and transnational social work studies. Her other interests are as follows:
(1) The amplification of community-based participatory research methods like Photovoice and narratives to provide insight and perspectives in social work, resilience, positive stigma and empowerment to inform practice and policy;
(2) The development and implementation of health-related interventions and practices to ameliorate stigma.
(3) Empowerment interventions to mitigate the emotional and physical impact of intimate partner violence on migrant, mobile populations' research.
(4) Homelessness and community engaged scholarship.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Homelessness, HPV, photovoice, intimate partner violence, US-Mexico border health
