JoAnn Foley-DeFiore | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

JoAnn Foley-DeFiore CV 2023.02.06

JoAnn Foley-DeFiore

Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Co-Chair, Sustainability Council

Summary Statement

I am interested in the cultural, environmental and social factors that influence individual and societal-level health; particularly how the arts, especially music, nature, social justice and inequality affect the health of individuals and their communities.

Department

Biobehavioral Health - BBH
Sustainability Council

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Education

University of Maryland, PhD, Sociology, 1995

Phone

814-865-2402

jxf39@psu.edu

Office Address

122 Biobehavioral Health Building
University Park, PA 16802

JoAnn Foley-DeFiore CV 2023.02.06

Responsibilities

Co-Chair, HHD Sustainability Council

Interests

environmental health
community and public health
sociology of race, gender, social class inequality
sociology of work and family

Professional Experience

JoAnn Foley has been teaching at the college level since 1994 and has taught classes ranging in size from 5 students to 170 students. The areas that she most loves to teach about revolve around culture, race/gender inequality, and work/family and their macro-level impacts on individual and community health. Her passion is teaching undergraduates; she is always interested in ways to better understand and educate this age group.

Publications

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