R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, PhD

As a bilingual developmental psychologist and community-engaged researcher, my research aims to reduce disparities in Latine children’s mental health, health, and academic achievement by understanding how social stressors influence Latine and immigrant caregivers and child well-being so as to inform intervention, policy, and practice. A second line of research investigates the impact of early interventions on parent and child outcomes, focusing on the child-, family-, and neighborhood-level factors that may moderate the association between intervention participation and later outcomes. 

My research interests are very much influenced by my upbringing in a Mexican immigrant household and community. My research has been published in numerous journals including Pediatrics, Social Science & Medicine, SSM-Mental Health, Prevention Science, Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, and Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. I earned a PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University and hold a BA in human biology from Stanford University.