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Barajas-Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Early Childhood Health and Development CEHD in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

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Barajas-Gonzalez is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Prevention Research, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the National Latino Psychological Association.

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A second line of research investigates the impact of early interventions on parent and child outcomes, focusing on the child-, family-, and teacher-level factors that may moderate the association between early intervention participation and later outcomes.

She is also a co-investigator of a RCT of ParentCorps, a population-level family-centered, school-based intervention that aims to strengthen family engagement and attenuate the adverse effects of poverty on child development.

Barajas-Gonzalez earned a PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University and hold a BA in human biology from Stanford University.

As a bilingual and bicultural developmental psychologist, she is interested in the prevention of mental health problems and the promotion of academic achievement and health in children from immigrant and ethnic minority populations.

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Lopez, Lisa M; Barajas-Gonzalez, R Gabriela; Diaz, Guadalupe; Moreno, Franklin; Coll, Cynthia Garcia Addressing Inequities in Education: Considerations for Latinx Children and Youth in the Era of COVID-19.

To this end, her work focuses on understanding the influence of poverty, discrimination, immigration threat and associated social stressors on caregiver mental health, family functioning, and child wellbeing.

Barajas-Gonzalez's research interests are very much influenced by her upbringing in a Mexican immigrant household and community.