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Address
60 Haven Avenue, B-2, Rm. 211
New York, NY 10032
Phone:212-304-5232
Fax: 212-304-7024
Email:[email protected]
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Latino Fellowship Director, Latino Fellowship Program, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Assistant Pofessor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
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Project Director, Finding Common Ground project
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| Dr. Romero’s research interests include domestic reproductive-health and poverty policy; factors influencing contraceptive decision-making; and, Latino health issues. As Project Director for the Finding Common Ground project she has directed a collaborative research project, involving Columbia University and Boston Medical Center, investigating the potential impact of welfare reform policies on the health of poor women and children. These activities have involved quantitative and qualitative research methods at the national, state, community, and clinical levels. In addition, she worked on a related project specifically focusing on the impact of these policies on native and immigrant Hispanic women. She currently is PI of a pilot study investigating the relevance of the “family cap” (or child exclusion) policy for poor women in New Jersey, and is conducting separate larger-scale analyses of the family cap and its relation to women’s reproductive choices. Dr. Romero also is an investigator with the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities (CHUM), a multidisciplinary project supported by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is on the Board or otherwise actively involved with several outside organizations/projects, including: the Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP); the NYC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS); the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); and, the American Public Health Association, Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health section. Dr. Romero’s doctoral research pertained to contraceptive decision-making among Hispanic and African-American women in large, urban settings.
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