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Erualdo Romero González
Dr. Erualdo Romero González is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He completed his undergraduate work at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles with a double major in Psychology and Chicano Studies, and a minor in Alcohol and Drug Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning (Community Health Planning emphasis) from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. His doctoral research was a comparative case study of two community-based organizations and examined the distribution of decision-making power between residents and organizational staff in ethnic minority working class neighborhoods. His interdisciplinary training in urban planning, community health, and qualitative methods has focused his research around the community setting.
Dr. González’s research interests concern theorizing about participatory processes for collective action and the socio-political phenomena regarding community-based organizations, especially in lower-income immigrant neighborhoods and communities of color.. His main area of applied research is divided in two areas: 1) community-based programs and participatory models of research for social change; and 2) community health promotion programs, specifically how they may be best planned, tracked, and evaluated.
His past research projects include: 1) a participatory action research project for environmental health in Southeast Los Angeles, California; 2) the evaluation of a cancer control coalition in the Korean and Chinese communities of Orange County, California; and 3) community health evaluations, such as the Paso del Norte Foundation’s Healthy Communities Initiative of nine communities in El Paso, New Mexico, and Cuidad Juarez (Chihuahua, Mexico), the California Wellness Foundation’s Children and Youth Community Health Initiative in California, and the St. Joseph’s Health System Foundation’s Community Building Initiative. These initiatives examined youth and adult participation in decision-making, community organizing strategies, multi-sector collaboration, asset mapping, and community health indicators.
Dr. González is also involved in community leadership roles. He is a board member of El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana and a member of the Orange County United Way Somos Familia Leadership Council. He is also a graduate of the Orange County United Way’s Multi-Ethnic Leadership Institute and involved with the Loyola Marymount University Mexican American Alumni Association scholarship committee.
