Dr. Carol Baldwin is associate professor, Southwest Borderlands Scholar and Director of the Office of International Health, Scientific and Educational Affairs with the ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation. She is also an ASU Silver Sponsor member of the Arizona/Mexico Commission with a focus on the Health and Environment Committees.

Her mixed-methods research includes the bio-psycho-social and spiritual correlates of, and contributors to sleep disorders experienced by Latino/as across the lifespan; ways in which sleep disorders of Latino/as may impact other health problems, such as obesity, depression and cardiovascular disease; Latino folk practices used for sleep disorders and ways in which they can be incorporated into conventional care to foster adherence; antioxidant intake, inflammatory markers and sleep disorders; and culturally relevant interventions for sleep disorders and associated chronic conditions.

Dr. Baldwin has been a co-investigator on several NIH grants including the multi-center, multi-ethnic NHLBI Sleep Heart Health Study, which examines the cardiovascular consequences of sleep apnea, an NCI multi-center study of quality of life of persons with intestinal ostomies, and Veterans Administration studies of complementary and alternative medicine used by veterans, stroke risk among Mexican American veterans, and is the PI on an NIH-funded study to translate and validate a sleep measure for use with Spanish speaking patients. She has also served as an expert panelist with government organizations addressing stress effects associated with chemical exposures, and has published peer-reviewed articles on environmental illness. Dr. Baldwin recently implemented a 16-credit Graduate Certificate in International Health for Health Professionals to support culturally responsive health care delivery and promote health in developed and developing countries. A contribution to disseminating health information across the lifespan is the implementation of the bilingual (English/Spanish) Southwest Borderlands – Nursing web that contains health links and resources for Latino families, and information on Latino life, culture, health and research resources for faculty and students http://nursing.asu.edu/swb

Dr. Baldwin has been instrumental in forming a university agreement between ASU and the University of Guanajuato, Mexico that will foster faculty and student cultural, research and other collaborative exchanges.