Francine C. Gachupin, PhD, MPH

Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Psychology
Professor, American Indian Studies
Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP
Professor, Public Health
Member of the Graduate Faculty

The late Francine C. Gachupin was a tribal member of the Pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico. She studied primarily chronic diseases and related behavioral risk factors. Much of her training was at the National Institutes of Health and most of her work occurred at four separate tribal based epidemiology centers Portland Area, Aberdeen Area, Albuquerque Area and Navajo Area. She worked with two tribal comprehensive cancer control programs in the Northern Plains and the Pacific Northwest.

Degree(s)

  • PhD: Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1998
  • MPH: Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1994
  • MA: Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991