Richard Guy Parker (born 1956)^[1] is a professor of sociomedical sciences and of anthropology, arts and sciences, at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where he received an award for teaching excellence in 2004.^[2] He serves as director of the university's Center for the Study of Culture, Politics, and Health.^[2]

Parker received a bachelor's degree (BA, 1980), a master's degree (MA, 1981), and a doctorate (PhD, 1988) from the University of California.^[2]

Parker is editor-in-chief of the public health journal Global Public Health.^[3]

Works

• Parker, Richard G.; Sommer, Marni (2011). Routledge handbook of global public health. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415778480. OCLC 649795921. (edited book)
• Aggleton, Peter; Parker, Richard G. (2010). Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415468640. OCLC 428770798. (edited book)
• Parker, Richard G. (2009). Bodies, pleasures, and passions: sexual culture in contemporary Brazil (2nd ed.). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0826516756. OCLC 436613604. (original edition 1991, OCLC 21870583)
• Parker, Richard G.; Aggleton, Peter (2002). HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination a conceptual framework and implications for action. Vol. 57. [Rio de Janeiro]: ABIA. pp. 13–24. doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00304-0. ISBN 978-8588684058. OCLC 60854872. PMID 12753813. ((cite book)): |journal= ignored (help)
• Parker, Richard (2001). "Sexuality, Culture, and Power in HIV/AIDS Research". Annual Review of Anthropology. 30: 163–179. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.163. JSTOR 3069213.
• Parker, Richard G.; Barbosa, Regina Maria; Aggleton, Peter (2000). Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520218369. OCLC 716452577. (edited book)
• Parker, Richard Guy (1999). Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1136669958. OCLC 38765158.
• Parker, Richard G.; Barbosa, Regina Maria (1996). Sexualidades brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Relume Dumará. ISBN 978-8573160895. OCLC 36806818. (Portuguese)
• Parker, Richard G.; Gagnon, John H. (1995). Conceiving sexuality: approaches to sex research in a postmodern world. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415909273. OCLC 30544272. (edited book)