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Arelis Moore De Peralta

Assistant Professor
College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
Clemson University
United States of America

Biography

Arelis Moore de Peralta (MEd, MPH, MD, Dominican Republic; PhD, Clemson) is an assistant professor with an inter-disciplinary joint appointment between the Department of Languages and Department of Youth, Family and Community Studies (YFCS). Dr. Moore is also the faculty advisor for first year graduate students in the inter-disciplinary doctoral program on International Family and Community Studies. Prior, she was the director of the Center for Community Services (CCS), an activity of CU/IFNL located in Simpsonville, SC, and the center’s Café Cultura, a Hispanic family outreach and support program within the center. Dr. Moore’s doctoral dissertation research was on “Health Beliefs and Socio-Cultural Factors that Predict Cervical Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Hispanic Women in Seven Cities in the Upstate of South Carolina.” She volunteers with the American Cancer Society, Best Chance Network, and with cancer prevention efforts among Hispanic women in Greenville, SC. Dr. Moore received the Vera Paster Award in October 2009, which was given by the American Orthopsychiatric Association in recognition of her work with Latino immigrants, and she received the Kimbrough-Melton Parents Award in April 2010. Café Cultura was honored with a Yellow Rose Award by the Hispanic American Women’s Association in 2010. Dr. Moore formerly was a faculty member in the School of Medicine at the Ibero-American University (UNIBE) in Santo Domingo. A public health specialist, she is an epidemiologist who coordinated disease preventive and control programs in the Ministry of Public Health in the Dominican Republic and for the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO). She also participated in the Caribbean health surveillance programs of the Centers for Disease Control.

Research Interest

Community Health and Well-being; Community-Based Participatory Research; Behavioral Health; Buidling Healthier Communities; Chronic Diseases Prevention and Control; Cervical Cancer; Hispanic/Latino families

Publications

  • Moore de Peralta, A., Holaday, B., (2016). Impact of Economic Trends and Disparities on South Carolina Children’s Health and Well-being: An Analysis Of the 2015 KIDS COUNT Profile. Accepted for publication in SC Nursing Magazine.

  • Gillispie, M., Mobley, C., Gibson, L.M., & Moore de Peralta, A. (2016). Perceptions of and Preferences for a Mobile Health Clinic for Underserved Populations: Results of Five Focus Groups. Accepted for publication in GHS Proceedings.

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