BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Provide the following information for the key personnel and other significant contributors in the order listed on Form Page 2. Follow this format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.
NAME Diana Romero		POSITION TITLE Associate Professor
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE (if applicable)		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Science	BA		06/1985	Biology
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Arts and Science	MA		02/1988	Science and Environmental Reporting
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences	MA MPhil PhD		01/1995 02/1997 05/2002	Sociomedical Sciences Sociomedical Sciences Sociomedical Sciences

A. Research and/or Professional Experience

Employment

09/87 - 04/91	Healthscan, Inc., Managing Editor/Project Director, Cedar Grove, NJ
04/91 - 05/92	Advanced Therapeutics Communications, Program Director, Secaucus, NJ
01/93 - 05/94	Columbia University Antenatal Nurse Training Project, Project Coordinator, New York, NY
05/93 - 10/95	Urban Health Institute at Harlem Hospital Center, Senior Research Assistant, New York, NY
09/94 - 12/94	Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Teaching Assistant, New York, NY
09/97 - 06/98	Marymount Manhattan College, Adjunct Professor, New York, NY
07/98 - 07/03	Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Project Director, Columbia University, New York, NY
07/02 - 8/07 09/07- Present	Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health (PT)
09/07- Present	Urban Public Health Program, Hunter College, Associate Professor, City University of New York, New York, NY

Honors

05/02	Marisa de Castro Benton Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the Sociomedical Sciences; Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
05/02	Jack Ellison Award for an outstanding paper in the Sociomedical Sciences published by a student in a peer-reviewed journal; Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
2005-06	Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2005	Dean’s Award for Innovation in the Curriculum (with Dr. Linda Cushman) to expand the course “Research Design and Data Collection” to better address relevant issues for students in the sexual health and forced migration tracks.

Professional Societies

Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, Advisory Committee Member (1999-2002)

Reproductive Health Technologies Project, Board Member (2001-present) and Secretary (2002-2004)

NYC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), Steering Committee Member (2000-present)

Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities (CHUM), Steering Committee Member (2003-present)

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Board Member (2004-present)

American Public Health Association

Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health section, Section Councilor (2004-present)

Latino Caucus, Member (2004-present)

Program Planning Committee, Member-At-Large (2006)

Abortion Task Force, Co-Chair (2006-present)

Public Health Association of New York City (PHANYC), Board Member (2006-present)

FDA Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Devices Panel, Advisory Committee Member (2006-2010)

B. Publications

Original research and theoretical treatises

Davidson AR, Kalmuss D, Cushman LF, Romero D, Heartwell S, Rulin M. Rates of Injectable Contraceptive Discontinuation and Subsequent Unintended Pregnancy Among Low-income Women. American Journal of Public Health. 1997;87:1532-1534.

Cushman L, Romero D, Kalmuss D, Davidson AR, Heartwell S, Rulin M. Condom Use Among Clinic Patients Using Norplant and Depo-Provera. Family Planning & Perspectives. 1998;30:240-243.

Wise PH, Chavkin W, Romero D. Assessing the Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Reproductive and Infant Health. American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89:1514-1521.

Smith L, Wise PH, Chavkin W, Romero D, Zuckerman B. Implications of Welfare Reform for Child Health: Emerging Challenges for Clinical Practice and Policy. Pediatrics. 2000;106(5):1-9.

Chavkin W, Draut T, Romero D, Wise PH. Sex, Reproduction and Welfare Reform. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. 2000;7(2):1-11.

Chavkin W, Romero D, Wise PH. State Welfare Reform Policies and Declines in Health Insurance. American Journal of Public Health. 2000;90:900-908.

Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise PH. The Impact of Welfare Reform Policies on Child Protective Services: A National Study. Journal of Social Issues. 2000;56(4):799-810.

Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise PH. State Welfare Reform Policies and Maternal and Child Health Services: A National Study. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2001;5(3):199-206.

Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise PH, Smith LA, Wood PR. Welfare to Work? Impact of Maternal Health on Employment. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92:1462-1468.

Wise PH, Wampler N, Romero D, Chavkin W. Chronic Illness Among Poor Children Enrolled in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(3):1458-1461.

Smith L, Romero D, Wood P, Wampler N, Chavkin W, Wise PH. Child Health Employment Barriers Among Welfare Recipients and Applicants with Chronically Ill Children. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(3):1453-1475.

Pati S, Romero D, Chavkin W. Changes in Utilization of Health Insurance and Food Assistance Programs in Medically Underserved Communities in the Era of Welfare Reform: An Urban Study. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(3):1441-1445.

Wood P, Smith L, Romero D, Bradshaw P, Wise P, Chavkin W. Children with Asthma: The Relationship Between Welfare Status, Health Insurance Status and Child Health. American Journal of Public Health. 2002; 92(3):1446-1452.

Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise P, Smith L. Low-Income Mothers’ Experience with Poor Health, Hardship, Work, and Violence: Implications for Policy. Violence Against Women. 2003;9(10):1231-1244.

Romero D. Children’s chronic illnesses and mothers’ health and employment. Focus. 2004;23(2):48-50. (University of Wisconsin—Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty)

Romero D. Penalizing Poor Women: Welfare Policies in the United States Penalize Larger Families While Denying the Means to Plan for Smaller Ones. Conscience. Winter 2005-2006;26(4):28-30.

Romero D, Fortune-Greely H, Verea JL, Salas-Lopez D. Meaning of the Family-Cap Policy for Poor Women: Contraceptive and Fertility Decision-Making. Journal of Health and Social Policy. 2007;26(4):28-30.

Romero D, Osorio G, Correa C, Thomas J. Social, Demographic, and Health-Related Factors Associated With Case Management Outcomes Among HIV/AIDS Patients. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Health Services Research.

Romero D, Chibber K, Rinki C, Mahato B, Glied S, Carrasquillo O. Poor Women’s Fertility and Reproductive Related Behaviors: An Analysis of Welfare Reform Using the NSFG. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Book chapters and editorials

Chavkin W, Wise PH, Romero D. Welfare, Women, and Children: It’s Time for Doctors to Speak Out. Journal of American Medical Women’s Association. 2002;57(1):3-4. Editorial.

Chavkin W, Romero D, Wise PH. What do sex and reproduction have to do with welfare? In Piven FF, Acker J, Hallock M, Morgen S, eds. Work, Welfare, and Politics. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press, 2002.

Romero D. Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Health of Latino Families. In Aguirre-Molina M, Molina C,

eds. Latina Health in the United States. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 2003. (591-612)

Books and pamphlets

Health Behavior Research in Minority Populations: Access, Design, and Implementation. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 1992. US Department of Health and Human Services publication NIH 92-2965. (Co-editor for 30-paper workshop proceedings)

Antenatal Nurse Training Project. Knowledge Into Action: Prenatal Nutrition, Successful Breastfeeding, Overcoming Cultural Barriers. Columbia University, NY; 1993. (Workbook and 2-part videotape kit)

C. Research Support

Current

NIH/NCMHD P60 MD000206 (Co-PI) 02/01/03-01/31/08

Title: Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities (CHUM) – EXPORT Center

Main activities (Research Core): Coordination of supported cross-discipline health services and disparities research activities.

Hewlett Foundation (Co-investigator) 07/01/05-06/30/08

Title: Population Program – Poor women’s reproductive-related behaviors in the context of welfare policies

Main activities: The specific aim of this study is to examine poor women’s reproductive-related behaviors in a national dataset to determine the potential effect of recent welfare policy changes.

Diversity Research Fellowship, Columbia University (PI) 04/01/07-03/31/08

Title: Fertility and Social Disadvantage Among Low-income Adults

Main activities: Secondary data analysis of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (male and female surveys) to explore how factors related to economic and other social disadvantage are associated with fertility and other family-formation decisions among low-income adults.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Initiative (PI) 05/15/07-05/14/08

Title: Health, Hardship, and Race/Ethnicity in Vulnerable Families

Main activities: Secondary, multilevel data analysis of the Fragile Families dataset examining the relationship of social factors and health to understand how they come together to create vulnerable populations; and, identify mechanisms through which health improvements can be made at individual, community, and policy levels—a multilevel approach to addressing poor health and social conditions. Five hypotheses have been specified that fall into 3 categories: physical/psychosocial health; racial/ethnic identity; health-care access and utilization.