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Julie Armin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Alvernon Admin Offices, Rm. 226K
Tucson, AZ 85724

(520) 626-4166
jarmin@arizona.edu

Selected Publications

Abbate, K. J.†, Hingle, M. D., Armin, J., Giacobbi, P., Jr., & Gordon, J. S. (2017). Recruiting Women to a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Trial: Low- and No-Cost Strategies. JMIR Res Protoc, 6(11), e219. doi:10.2196/resprot.7356
 
Armin, J., Johnson, T., Hingle, M., Giacobbi, P., Jr., & Gordon, J. S. (2017). Development of a Multi-Behavioral mHealth App for Women Smokers. J Health Commun, 22(2), 153-162. doi:10.1080/10810730.2016.1256454
 
LaGrandeur, W.†, Armin, J., Howe, C. L., & Ali-Akbarian, L. (2018). Survivorship care plan outcomes for primary care physicians, cancer survivors, and systems: a scoping review. J Cancer Surviv, 12(3), 334-347. doi:10.1007/s11764-017-0673-5
 
Marshall, C. A., Curran, M. A., Brownmiller, G., Solarte, A., Armin, J., Hamann, H. A., . . . Weihs, K. L. (2018). Oregon's Familias en Accion replicates benefits for underserved cancer co-survivors through Un Abrazo Para la Familia. Psychooncology, 27(10), 2405-2411. doi:10.1002/pon.4841
 
Armin, J. S. (2019). Administrative (in)Visibility of Patient Structural Vulnerability and the Hierarchy of Moral Distress among Health Care Staff. Med Anthropol Q, 33(2), 191-206. doi:10.1111/maq.12500
 
Armin, J. S., Marshall, C. A., & Kroeger, S. (2019). Exploring the Experiences of University Students with a History of Cancer: A Pilot Study. J Cancer Educ. doi:10.1007/s13187-019-01627-x
 
Gordon, J. S., Giacobbi, P., Jr., Armin, J. S., Nair, U. S., Bell, M. L., & Povis, G. (2019). Testing the feasibility of a guided imagery tobacco cessation intervention delivered by a telephone quitline: Study protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun, 16, 100437. doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100437
 
Pettit, J. M., Ryan, A. M., Armin, J., & Weiss, B. D. (2019). Medical-Legal Partnerships to Enhance Residency Training in Advance Care Planning. Fam Med, 51(4), 353-357. doi:10.22454/FamMed.2019.392574
 
Samtani, G,† Bassford T, Williamson H, Armin J**(in press) Social and Behavioral Research Needs Regarding Cancer Survivorship in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
 
Gordon, J. S., Bell, M. L., Armin, J. S., Nair, U. S., & Giacobbi, P. R. (2020). A Telephone-based Guided Imagery Tobacco Cessation Intervention:  Results of a Randomized Feasibility Trial. Translational Behavioral Medicine.
 
Marshall, C. A., Curran, M. A., Trejo, J., Gonzalez, A. A., Armin, J., Hamann, H. A., Badger, T., & Garcia, F. A. (2020). The evolution of Un Abrazo Para La Familia: implications for survivors of cancer. Journal of Cancer Education.
 
Armin, J, Nair U, Giacobbi P, Povis G, Barazza Y, Gordon J (In Press) Developing a Guided Imagery Telephone-Based Tobacco Cessation Program for a Randomized Controlled Trial. Tobacco Use Insights.
 
WORKS IN PROGRESS (UNDER REVIEW)
Hartl K, Pettit J, Armin J, Collins W, Elliott T, Grivois-Shah R. Innovations in Resident Scheduling: Building a Foundation for Ambulatory Skills. Family Medicine.
 
Williamson H, Armin J, Nasimi B, Stakely E, Harmon D, Meyers J. Community-Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities of Indigenous Women with Disabilities. Annals of International Occupational Therapy.
 
Lee M, Peart J, Armin J, Williamson H. A Systematic Review of Facilitators and Barriers to Pap Testing in Women with Disabilities and Serious Mental Illnesses: Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice.
 
OTHER SCHOLARLY PRODUCTS
Armin, Julie (2013) Book Review, Arizona: A History by Thomas E. Sheridan. Arizona Anthropologist 23:33-36.
 
Armin, Julie (2018) Book Review, Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer by S.D. Gottlieb. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
 
Armin, Julie, Heather Williamson, Julie Baldwin, and Jennifer Etcitty. Improving Shared Decision Making Regarding Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening for Native American Women with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities, Annual Tribal Cancer Collaborative Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, May 1, 2018.
 
Armin, Julie, Heather Williamson, Dana Russell, & Tara Chico-Jarillo. Adapting a Cancer Screening Education Program for Hopi Women with Disabilities. National Indian Health Board Webinar, July 18, 2019.
 
 
† Mentee
 

Sponsored Research Through MSRP

Mary Nguyen, (MSRP 2021): "Evaluating the Cancer-related Needs of People who Identify as Living with Serious Mental Issues."
 

NIH High School Student Research Program

Lilian German, Willcox High School, (Willcox, AZ), 2020
Nhan Pham, Sonoran Science Academy, 2020

Degrees

  • University of California at Berkeley, 1993 (A.B. English-Literature)
  • San Francisco State University, 2006 (M.A. Anthropology)
  • University of Arizona, 2015 (Ph.D. Anthropology)

Awards

  • The Florence Hemley Schneider Prize in Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, 2012
  • Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Scholarship Award, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2013
  • Featured “Woman in Medicine” during Women in Medicine Month by UA Women in Academic Medicine, 2019

Research Interests

Intersectionality and health
Cancer disparities
Access to cancer care for historically marginalized populations
Community-based research
Participatory action research
Implementation research