One Billion
People live with disabilities worldwide.Advancing Research and Innovation for Aging and Disability (ARIAD)
A CU Denver Research and
Creative Work Grand Challenge
Creative Work Grand Challenge
The Goal
The ARIAD team aims to cultivate a powerful collaborative network of academic experts, community stakeholders, and local, national, and international industry advisors and partners to address the grand challenge of aging and aging into disability facing our world today. Funding and research support is provided by CU Denver in order to lay the foundation for building CU Denver’s reputation as a leader in research and creative work.The Challenge
Society is Aging
By 2030, one out of every five Americans will be at or above retirement ageDemand Fuels Innovation
One in two older adults will experience disability as they age.Team Members
Patricia Valverde PhD
Assistant Professor
Public Health
- Department of Community & Behavioral Health
Email Address:patricia.valverde@cuanschutz.edu
Primary Phone:3037240628
Mailing Address:
- CU Anschutz
Anschutz Medical Campus Building 406
12477 East 19th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
Dr. Valverde is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at CU Denver. She has extensive experience with developing, leading, managing, and training staff with public health practices related to intervention studies and programs utilizing health navigators, community health workers, and other non-licensed public health professionals to improve community health. Her experience with nicotine and tobacco began with the implementation of a tobacco cessation intervention within a large Head Start facility to assist parents and staff in accessing and using available tobacco cessation resources. After this project, she became trained as a tobacco cessation specialist and has provided coaching to tobacco users at academic hospitals and Veterans Administration facilities. She co-led a project to survey low-income residents on their tobacco use and daily and life stressors. More recently, she led a pilot project to survey and conduct qualitative interviews of Latinx and other adolescents related to vaping patterns and also test lung function. She is appointed to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Tobacco Review Committee, which is tasked with tobacco control strategic planning and the distribution of tobacco and nicotine tax revenues of approximately $23M annually. She has managed large, multi-year randomized clinical trials and survey and qualitative research projects that require multi-disciplinary teams, community support, and engagement.
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