Richard Guy Parker (born 1956) 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. He serves as director of the university's Center for the Study of Culture, Politics, and Health.
Parker received a bachelor's degree (BA, 1980), a master's degree (MA, 1981), and a doctorate (PhD, 1988) from the University of California.
Parker is editor-in-chief of the public health journal Global Public Health.
Parker, Richard G.; Sommer, Marni (2011). Routledge handbook of global public health. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 0415778484. OCLC 649795921. (edited book)
Aggleton, Peter; Parker, Richard G. (2010). Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415468647. 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 0826516750. 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. [Rio de Janeiro]: ABIA. ISBN 8588684055. OCLC 60854872.
Parker, Richard (2001). "Sexuality, Culture, and Power in HIV/AIDS Research". Annual Review of Anthropology. 30: 163–179. 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 1136669957. OCLC 38765158.
Parker, Richard G.; Barbosa, Regina Maria (1996). Sexualidades brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Relume Dumará. ISBN 8573160896. OCLC 36806818. (Portuguese)
Parker, Richard G.; Gagnon, John H. (1995). Conceiving sexuality: approaches to sex research in a postmodern world. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415909279. OCLC 30544272. (edited book)
