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Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD
Assistant Vice President, Community Partnrshps&Diversity, Assistant Vice President Community Partnrshps&Diversity Loma Linda University
Associate Professor, Global Health School of Public Health

Publications Scholarly Journals--Published

Aja, G., Modeste, N., Lee, J., Montgomery, S., Belliard, J. Perceived church-based needs and assets for HIV/AIDS prevention in an urban Nigerian community. (2010) Journal of Religion and Health. 49(1), 50-61. ( 9/2010 )

Blanchard, L., Hanssmann, C., Strauss, R., Belliard, J., Krichbaum, K., Waters, E., and Seifer, S. Faculty development models for community-engaged scholarship. (2009). Metropolitan Universities Journal. 20(2), 47-65. ( 10/2009 )

Belliard, J., Dyjack, D. Applying Kotter’s model of change to sustainable Community Engaged Scholarship at a School of Public Health. (2009). Metropolitan Universities Journal. 20(2), 119-138. ( 10/2009 )

Sethi, S., Belliard, J. Participatory health assessment in Haiti: practical tools for community empowerment. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research Education and Action. (submitted). ( 8/2009 )

Jamison, B., Gaede, D., Mataya, R., Belliard, J. Reflections on Public Health and Service-Learning. (2008). Academic Exchange Quarterly. 12(3),4134-4138. ( 10/2008 )

Kiesser, M. McFadden, J., Belliard, J. An interdisciplinary view of medical pluralism among Mexican-Americans. (2006). Journal of Interprofessional Care. 20(3), 223-234. ( 10/2006 )

Belliard, J., & Ramirez, J. Medical pluralism in the life of a Mexican immigrant woman," (2005). Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 27(3), 267-285. ( 8/2005 )

This case study reflects on the variety of approaches to health care in a pluralistic immigrant urban enclave in Southern California. In-depth interviews were conducted with a Mexican immigrant woman in San Bernardino, California to explore and understand her health worldview and the strategies she uses in deciding among the diverse healthcare options available to protect and maintain her family?s health. Kleinman?s typology of health sectors (professional, folk, and popular) is applied to the popular healing practices of the key informant and her own health-seeking behaviors. These expose the conflict between a professional community that relies on categories and binary comparisons, and the existence of multiple, simultaneous healthcare sectors. While the literature on traditional healers focuses on the folk sector and its visible healing structures, activities like curanderismo, research on the role and importance of lay healing practices is limited. This case study highlights the paradoxical world of health and illness in a pluralistic medical setting and how those who reside in an environment where medical syncretism exists apparently see their options very differently from their professional healthcare providers.

Belliard, J., Dyjack, D. (2004). Putting the public into the public health curriculum: A case study. Public Health Reports. 119(4) 452-454. ( 10/2004 )

Books and Chapters

Belliard, J., Dyjack, D., Anderson, B. Learning through academic-community partnerships. Quarterly for the National Society for Experiential Education. (Summer, 2005). ( 10/2005 )

Woods ,D., Montgomery, S., Belliard, J., Ramirez, J., and Wilson, C. (2004). Culture, black men, and prostate cancer: What is reality? Cancer Control Journal. 11(6), 388-396. ( 10/2004 )