Farrah Jacquez

University of Cincinnati

Biographical Abstracts

Farrah Jacquez, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and assistant vice president in the Office of Research at the University of Cincinnati. For more than two decades, she has advanced community-engaged scholarship through research, institutional leadership, and field-building initiatives that strengthen partnerships between communities and academic institutions. Her research focuses on improving health and well-being through participatory approaches, particularly with immigrant and refugee communities. She has secured funding from National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, AmeriCorps, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support community-partnered research and leadership development initiatives.

Jacquez is co-director of community and stakeholder engagement for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training, Cincinnati’s NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award-funded program, where she integrates community engagement into translational research infrastructure, evaluation, and training. She serves on the Board of Directors of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, co-founded and co-edits the Journal of Participatory Research Methods, an open-access journal dedicated to advancing the methods and practice of participatory research, and co-edited the five-volume book series Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research. Her contributions have helped create new platforms for disseminating community-engaged scholarship and strengthening the field’s methodological foundation. She received the Ernest A. Lynton Award for Early Career Community-Engaged Scholarship and the Governor’s Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan Award in recognition of her contributions to engaged research and community partnerships.

Areas of Expertise

• Immigrant health
• Participatory research methods
• Translational science
• Social connection
• Latino health