Dr. Cindy Patton, Professor Emeritus, received her PhD in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1992.  Dr. Patton joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in May of 2003 as Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health. She is an Associate Member in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.  Dr. Patton has worked in health research for four decades.  She has published work in the areas of: social study of medicine (especially AIDS); social movement theory; gender studies; and media studies.

PhD (Communications), University of Massachusetts
MTS (Master of Theological Studies, Applied Theology, Women's Studies), Harvard University
BA (Anthropology & Economics), Appalachian State University

Social study of medicine health, especially social aspects of AIDS; bioethics; the history of sexuality; continental theory; research design, especially mixed methods; and Taiwan studies.

Books

• 
  University of Minnesota Press. Cindy Patton (editor) 2010
• . (co-edited with Helen Loshny) Youngstown, New York: Teneo Press, 2008.
• , University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology, Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni (eds) with contributing editors Wimal Dissanayake, Ping-hui Liao, Toby Miller, Cindy Patton, Dominic Pettman, Della Pollock, & J. Macgregor Wise, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
•  "Theory Out of Bounds" Series, Minneapolis , MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
•  (co-edited with Benigno Sanchez-Eppler) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

• Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University, 1999-2002
• Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Emory University, 1997, 1998
• Using a System Analytic Approach to Living (SynAL) with Chronic Diseases
  Scott Lear (Health Sceinces), Miriam Rosin (Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology), Nadine Schuurman (Geography), and Andrew Wister (Gerontology).
• Community Health Solutions Institute with Scott Lear and Andrew Wister
• Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health with Marina Morrow
• SSHRC Accidental Community
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton
  Collaboration: Mary Stuart Petty, Susan Cadell
  Institutions of Co-Investigators: St Paul's Hospital
  2005 -2008
• MSFHR Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
  Senior Scholar Award in Population Health
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton (丁香园AV) 
  2005-2007
• CRC Canada Research Chairs
  Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Community, Culture and Health
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton (丁香园AV)
  2003-2008
• SSHRC Public Access Homelessness Research Library
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton (丁香园AV)
  Co-Investigators: Lynn Copeland (丁香园AV - Dean of Libraries)
  2006-2007
• SSHRC - Pilot Tools Project 
  Tools to Analyze Health
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton (丁香园AV) 
  2006-2007
• CIHR
  A mixed-method approach for analyzing and reducing health disparities that are embedded in social and behavioral practices
  Principal Investigator: Cindy Patton
  Co-Investigator: Marky Tyndall, Carl Schwartz (UBC)
  2006-2007 
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
  INTEGRATE: Inderdisciplinary Team Generating Research on Complex Patients to Develop Innovative Solutions
  Joint Investigator: Cindy Patton
  Collaboration: Adeera Levin (St Paul's Hosp/UBC)
  2006-2007