Candace W. Burton

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Dr. Candace W. Burton is an Associate Professor in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine, and her research focuses on stress and trauma, particularly in interpersonal relationships and in the context of health disparities. Dr. Burton is a trained qualitative and mixed methodologist, and has published on the social determinants of health, structural violence, the trauma of violence and abuse, and nursing education on vulnerable populations. She holds undergraduate degrees in Studies in Women and Gender and in Nursing from the University of Virginia, and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco.

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