Robert H. Feldman, Ph.D., FAAHB Professor SPH 2370 rfeldman@umd.edu 301.405.2519

Education

Post-Doctorate (NIH), Health Psychology, University of Connecticut Medical-Dental School
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Syracuse University
M.S., Social Psychology, Syracuse University
M.A., Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Mathematics, Brooklyn College-C.U.N.Y.

Courses Taught

HLTH 200: Introduction to Research in Community Health
HLTH 230: Introduction to Health Behavior
HLTH 391: Principles of Community Health I
HLTH 430: Health Education in the Workplace
HLTH 665: Health Behavior I
HLTH 666: Health Behavior II

Research Focus

• Smoking and smoking cessation in the Latino community
• Worksite smoking cessation in Costa Rica
• Preferences for health information and decision-making, age and Internet use

Selected Publications (within last 10 years)

Wallen, G.R., Feldman, R.H. and Anliker, J. (2002). Measuring acculturation among Central American women using a brief language use subscale. Journal of Immigrant Health, 4(2), 95-102.

Wallen, G.R., Feldman, R.H., and Anliker, J. (2002). Cognitive interviews conducted in Spanish: A method for enhancing a Hispanic infant feeding questionnaire. Hispanic Health Care International, 1 (2), 91-96.

Feldman, R.H. and Laura, R. (2004). The use of complementary and alternative medicine practices among Australian university students. Complementary Health Practice Review, 9 (3), 173-179.

Feldman, R.H., Christopher, B.W., Muniz, A.G. and Mejia, D.A. (2004). Integrating smoking cessation into worker training among Latino immigrant workers: Development of a program. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 14 (4), 349-355.

Smith-Cumberland, T. and Feldman, R.H. (2005). A survey about EMTs’ attitudes towards death. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 20 (3), 184-188.

Smith-Cumberland, T.L. and Feldman, R.H. (2006). EMTs’ attitudes’ toward death before and after a death education program. Prehospital Emergency Care, 10(1), 89-95.

Gryczynski, J, Feldman, R., Carter-Pokras, O., Kanamori, M., Chen, L, and Roth, S. (2010,). Contexts of tobacco use and perspectives on smoking cessation among urban American Indians. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(2), 544-558.

Carter-Pokras, O., Feldman, R.H., Kanamori, M., Rivera, I., Chen, L., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Nodora, J., and Noltenius, J. (2011). Barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation among Latino adults. Journal of the National Medical Association, 103, 423-431.

Pirutinsky, S., Rosmarin, D.H., Holt, C.L., Feldman, R.H., Caplan, L.S., Midlarsky, E., and Pargament, K.I. (2011). Does social support mediate the moderating effect of intrinsic religiosity on the relationship between physical health and depressive symptoms among Jews? Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 34, 489-496.

Recent Grants (within last 7 years)

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Exploring cultural, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing tobacco use among Asian Americans, Hispanics, African Americans and American Indians in Maryland, Co-Principal Investigator

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Tobacco control evaluation program, Co-Investigator

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH), Worker education and training response to bio-terrorism, Co-Investigator

Career Highlights

• Professor, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park, 1990-present
• Affiliate Professor, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2010-present
• UNIBE International Professor of Psychology, Universidad de Iberoamérica (UNIBE), San José, Costa Rica, 2008-present
• Best Paper Award (with B. Xie and M. Wang) from the ACM iConference, 2011.
• Fellow, American Academy of Health Behavior, 2010.
• International Travel Award to conduct sabbatical research at the Universidad de Iberoamérica, San José, Costa Rica, 2007-2008.
• Visiting Scholar and Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2000-2001.
• Assistant Professor, Divisions of Health Education and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1978-79
• N.I.H. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health, University of Connecticut Medical-Dental School, Farmington, Connecticut, 1977-1978.
• Peace Corps Volunteer, High School Mathematics and Physics Teacher, Irrua, Ishan, Mid-West Nigeria (1966-67), Kisii, Kenya (1967-69)