Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda
PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Season 11 - Episode 04
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Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-GuardaPhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda is an Associate Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. Her research addresses the intersection of violence, substance abuse, HIV, and mental health through developing, testing, and scaling multi-level interventions to address common social and structural drivers of these conditions. She uses a syndemic orientation, mixed methods, and community-engaged strategies to influence practice and policy changes to promote health equity and social justice for Latinos, other racial and ethnic minoritized groups, and communities affected by trauma. She is currently the principal investigator of two research studies, which are developing a community-academic research partnership to address gun violence prevention among Latino youth and an NIH-funded study conducting a community randomized trial of a community health worker intervention addressing stress, resilience, and syndemic outcomes among Latino immigrant families. Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda has had a longstanding commitment to diversifying the nursing workforce and improving the capacity of healthcare providers and scientists to address health equity. She is currently co-leading an NINR-funded T32 entitled “Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care Addressing the Social Determinants of Health,” which includes a strong partnership with minority serving institutions. She also leads various local and national initiatives addressing violence, mental health, and health equity including serving on the Board of Directors for El Futuro (the Future), a local community-based mental health organization serving Latino and immigrant communities and co-leading the Health Equity Core for the National Institutes of Health Collaboratory of Pragmatic Clinical Trials.
