Diana Romero Associate Professor	Office:  BC714W Email: diana.romero@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-5073 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
Domestic reproductive-health and poverty policy; factors influencing contraceptive decision-making; and, Latino health issues. As Project Director for the Finding Common Ground project directed a project investigating the potential impact of welfare reform policies on the health of poor women and children, involving quantitative and qualitative research methods at the national, state, community, and clinical levels. This was followed by a project focusing on the impact of these policies on native and immigrant Hispanic women. Recently, studied the welfare “family cap” policy among women in NJ, and is currently conducting larger-scale analyses of the policy and its relation to reproductive behaviors utilizing the NSFG dataset, as well as state key-informant interviews and data collection. Serve as an investigator on a project focusing on the health of urban minority communities supported by NCMHD. Actively involved with the following organizations: Reproductive Health Technologies Project; NYC PRAMS; Center for Health and Gender Equity; American Public Health Association, its NY affiliate, the Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health section, and the Latino Caucus.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Urban Health Promotion; Doctoral Research Seminar

Selected Publications:
Romero D, Fortune-Greeley 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;23(1). In press.
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. 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)
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, Chavkin W, Wise PH, Smith L, Wood P. Welfare to Work? Impact on Maternal Health on Employment. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(3):1462-1468.

Education:
BA, Biology, New York University
MA, Scientific and Environmental Reporting, New York University
MA, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
MPhil, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
PhD, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University