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Job Descriptions

Co-Principal Investigator Patricia M. Juárez, will perform activities in coordination with Verónica Corella-Barud, CERM Assistant Director. Ms. Juárez has coordinated and served as a consultant in many environmental health studies. Currently, she has an active role along with Ms. Corella-Barud in the implementation of the HELP-for kids’ project in the San Elizario area. Also, she is the part time community coordinator for a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences-funded research of childhood lead poisoning in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. She also participated in a study assessing indoor home environments in Anthony, NM, co-designed community manuals and trainings, as well as comic books. In the past, she participated as a part-time research assistant to a binational cohort study that estimates incidence of H. pylori among U.S.-Mexico border children. She has extensive experience in performing focus groups, developing curricula, and managing participatory trainings with promotoras.

 

Consultants

Community Promotoras:  Promotoras are well known and trusted bilingual members of their community experienced in in-home health education topics such as immunizations, aids, Medicaid/Medicare and currently collaborating in the implementation of the “Healthy Home Environments for the Paso del Norte Region” project.