Jamal Martin, PhD MPH
Professor[1] of Africana Studies and Public Health
J E Jamal Martin, PhD MPH
Email: drjamal@unm.edu
Telephone: + 1 (505)277 5455
Room Number: MVH 4018
Profile
As a theoretical epidemiologist I joined Africana Studies (AFST) in 2010. Since then, I have worked primarily with a focus on the ‘African Condition’, including culture and consciousness in health and disease prevention and control. Within the spheres of public health and prevention medicine I also have a burgeoning interest in overcoming population health inequities facing dislocated Black families within the Global African Community. Equally important, I favor the value of critical discourse analysis and meta theoretical African concepts about consciousness and ways of knowing including abstract health justice approaches for freedom and health literacy. My scholarship for the teaching and learning of AFST was deeply influenced and sustained by 18th, 19th, and 20th century perspectives from Peoples of African descent about Pan-African thought and praxis. In particularly the editors and writers of the Negro World and “the problems related to the color line.” Thus, AFST augments my continuing work within public, international, and global health. My core administrative, professional, technical, and clinical experiences support global learning while working locally on opportunities for capacity building in applied health and human development. Emphasizing critical thinking within interpretations of transdisciplinary human sciences and education; my synthesis justifies the values for relearning to be human which remains a fundamental characteristic of AFST.
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching
AFST Introduction to Africana Studies
AFST Africana Philosophy and Research Methods
AFST Race Racism and Globalization
Other diverse constructs under National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) e.g., Africana Studies Curriculum Model emphasizing foundational (transdisciplinary and meta theory); the intersectionality of sociological, cultural, psychological, historical studies about people of African descent; and research for development and praxis of African consciousness in culture and community mental health.
Graduate/Professional Lectures (academic medicine)
Undergraduate medical education seminars in public health equity, social determinants of health, global epidemiology, mental health, and hygiene. Additionally, public health law and ethics, public health practice and epidemiology.
Research
Research interests:
My initial AFST research arose with the historiography about the African-Iberian Peninsula, including knowledge production and transmission from Timbuktu to New Spain and beyond. The later emergence and expansion of Pan African research history and activism led to examinations of ‘African Deep Thought’ to suss pathologies of power and structural violence out of the ‘Pan European Academy’. For example, how does one address the metaphysical alienation and chaotic falsification of scientific racism in STEM and Health Sciences professional education?
Other themes include promising ways of reducing conflicts about the radical Black international and intellectual tradition in geopolitics. By using action research to reduce and eliminate problems associated with cultural, biological, and intellectual superiority under oppression and injustice. My current metatheoretical research seeks to further thinking and actions about the primary prevention of psychopathology through Afro-futurism in public health services and systems (PHSS) and public health legal (PHL) scholarship.
Publications
Journal of Hospital Emergency Medicine
Journal of Cancer Research
Journal of Race, Policy, and Law
Dissertation Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience in Health Promotion: Violence Prevention Agenda Settings – LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co.
Textbook Chapter Vital Elements in the Deconstruction of Whiteness and Eurocentrism in Higher Education Work Settings in Dismantling White Supremacy in Higher Education - Routledge Academic Press
Book Review Anti-blackness in Journal of Anthropological Research
Professional Conference Presentations
American Association of Colleges and Universities
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
American Public Health Association
Critical Race Studies and Education Association
Diopian Institute for Advanced Studies
National Council for Black Studies
Education
Doctorate – University of New Mexico, 2002
Master’s – University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1987
Baccalaureate – Hawaii Pacific University, 1985
[1] North American informal characterization plus allegiance to specialized fields
