Irina Todorova

Ph.D., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Health Psychology
Director, Health Psychology Research Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Boston, MA;
President-elect, European Health Psychology Society;
Executive Committee member, Central and East European Society of Behavioral Medicine;
Consulting editor, Health Psychology Review;
Research Scientist, Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Contact Information
(978) 821-2420 Irina_Todorova@post.harvard.edu
www.healthpsych-bg.org
www.ischp2007.org
www.ehps.net

Research Interests
Psychosocial aspects of health and well-being,  gender and health; health disparities; migration and health; social change in Eastern Europe and implications for health

Current Projects
Stress and health/health disparities in the Puerto Rican population in the Boston area; politics of reproductive health and reproductive technologies in Bulgaria; psychosocial and health systems aspects of cervical cancer screening and screening disparities in Bulgaria and Romania; health and behavior in school-aged children – an international WHO affiliated study.

Selected Publications
Panayotova, Y., Todorova, I., (In press) Cultural meanings of the infertility treatment procedures and new reproductive technologies: Women’s voices from Bulgaria, In: Eds. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli & Marcia C. Inhorn,  Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, Berghahn Books

Suarez-Orozco, C, Suarez-Orozco, M. &Todorova, I. (In press) Moving stories: Educational pathways of immigrant youth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Todorova, I., Baban, A., Balabanova, D., Panayotova, Y., & Bradley, J. (2006) Providers’ constructions of women’s role in cervical cancer screening in Eastern Europe. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 776-787.

Todorova, I. & Todorov, V. (2006) Gender and Psychosocial Aspects of Health in Bulgaria, Cognition, Brain, Behavior (Cognitie, Creier, Comportament), X, 1, 31-51.

Todorova, I. Kotzeva, T. (2006) Contextual shifts in Bulgarian women’s identity in the face of infertility. Psychology & Health, 21 (1), 123-141.

Kotzeva, T., & Todorova, I. (2005) The social construction of infertility in Bulgarian society. Sotsioogicheski problemi, 3-4, 215-243. (In Bulgarian)

Kotzeva, T., Todorova, I. (1994). The Bulgarian woman: Traditional images and changing realities.  Pernik, Krakra Press.