Jennifer Schultz De La Rosa
- Assistant Research Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Contact
- (520) 626-7864
- AHSC, Rm. 4320
- TUCSON, AZ 85724-5052
- jschult1@arizona.edu
Biography
Jennifer Schultz De La Rosa, PhD, is a medical sociologist and data scientist specializing in treatment quality and utilization, workforce development, stigma, and health equity in the interrelated areas of chronic pain, substance use, and mental illness. Dr. De La Rosa is the Director of Strategy at the University of Arizona Health Sciences’ Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction. She is the Principal Investigator of PeerWORKS and the Director of Evaluation for Project FUTRE, HRSA-funded collaborations with the Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Workforce Development Program (College of Medicine- Tucson). These two programs train, certify, and place opioid-impacted individuals and family members in community provider roles, providing support to people with similar lived experiences. Dr. De La Rosa also directs evaluation of AzCANN, an Arizona Department of Health Services contract providing interprofessional and general public education events on safer adult use of cannabis.Degrees
- Ph.D. Sociology
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- M.A. Sociology
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- B.A. Sociology, Spanish
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States
Awards
- FY 2023 Fellow, University of Arizona Academic Leadership Institute
- University of Arizona Office of Learning and Organizational Development, Fall 2022
- Certficate of Recognition "Helping people with lived experience improve their quality of life, through research and committment"
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine -- Tucson, Fall 2019
- Lead Tucson, Class of 2019
- Lead Tucson, formerly Greater Tucson Leadership, Fall 2019
Interests
Teaching
Co-Director of Pain and Society, FCM 304Bachelor's of Science in Medicine
Research
Chronic Pain, Anxiety/Depression, and Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder, Network Analysis, Health Service Quality, Patient Centered Care, Emotional Regulation, Intertemporal Discounting and Delay Aversion, Impulsivity, Daily habits and rythms, Motivation, Goal Directed Persistence, Eveningness, Medicine, , Episodic Future Thinking, Integration of Self Across Past/Present Future, Reward Pathway Adaptation and Plasticity, Disentangling States and Traits, Situational and Contextual approaches, Lived Experience, Self-Determination and Empowerment, Learned Hopefulness,
Courses
2023-24 Courses
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Independent Study
PSIO 399 (Spring 2024)
2021-22 Courses
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Indigenous Health
AIS 437 (Spring 2022) -
Indigenous Health
CHS 437 (Spring 2022) -
Indigenous Health
SOC 437 (Spring 2022)
2020-21 Courses
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Indigenous Health
AIS 437 (Spring 2021) -
Indigenous Health
CHS 437 (Spring 2021) -
Indigenous Health
SOC 437 (Spring 2021)
2019-20 Courses
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Indigenous Health
AIS 437 (Spring 2020) -
Indigenous Health
CHS 437 (Spring 2020) -
Indigenous Health
SOC 437 (Spring 2020)
2018-19 Courses
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Indigenous Health
AIS 437 (Fall 2018) -
Indigenous Health
CHS 437 (Fall 2018) -
Indigenous Health
SOC 437 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Health Disparities in Society
CHS 401 (Spring 2018) -
Health Disparities in Society
SOC 401 (Spring 2018)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Brady, B. R., Taj, E., Yoder, A., Cameron, E., & De La Rosa, J. S. (2023). A Diagram of the Social-Ecological Conditions of Opioid Misuse and
Overdose. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20206950 - Schultz, J. (2023). Co-occurrence of chronic pain and anxiety/depression symptoms in U.S. adults: prevalence, functional impacts, and opportunities. Pain.
- Schultz, J. (2022). Gender, psychiatric disability, and dropout from peer support specialist training.. Psychological Services.
- Schultz, J. (2022). Reclaiming Indigenous Health in the US: Moving beyond the Social Determinants of Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
- Schultz, J. (2020). Predictors of Tobacco Cessation Among American Indian/Alaska Native Adults Enrolled in a State Quitline. Substance Use & Misuse.
- Schultz, J. (2019). Electronic Cigarette Policy Recommendations: A Scoping Review. American Journal of Health Behavior.
- Schultz, J. (2017). Anticipatory capacity in response to global change across an extreme elevation gradient in the Ica Basin, Peru. Regional Environmental Change.
- Schultz, J., & Schultz, J. (2017). Data as a Strategic Resource: Self-determination, Governance, and the Data Challenge for Indigenous Nations in the United States. International Indigenous Policy Journal.More infoData about Indigenous populations in the United States are inconsistent and irrelevant. Federal and state governments and researchers direct most collection, analysis, and use of data about U.S. Indigenous populations. Indigenous Peoples’ justified mistrust further complicates the collection and use of these data. Nonetheless, tribal leaders and communities depend on these data to inform decision making. Reliance on data that do not reflect tribal needs, priorities, and self-conceptions threatens tribal self-determination. Tribal data sovereignty through governance of data on Indigenous populations is long overdue. This article provides two case studies of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and their demographic and socioeconomic data initiatives to create locally and culturally relevant data for decision making.
- Schultz, J., & Schultz, J. (2014). The Strategic Power of Data: A Key Aspect of Sovereignty. International Indigenous Policy Journal.More infoThe lack of good data about U.S. American Indian and Alaska Native populations hinders tribes’ development activities, but it also highlights a space for sovereign action. In coming years, tribes will no doubt continue to advocate for better national data and at the same time increasingly implement their own “data agendas” by gathering high quality, culturally relevant information about their communities. With more meaningful data, tribal policymakers can make informed decisions about which policies and programs are right for the task at hand. Strategic data planning empowers tribes to tell their communities’ stories through their own data, and not that of others.
- Schultz, J. (2010). The strength of weak culture. Poetics.