 Scholarship/Fellow Recipients
2007 Recipients
Kenneth Martinez, Psy. D.
Mental Health Resource Specialist, Technical Assistance Partnership
American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
Title: Latinos/Hispanos: A Potential Explosion? or An Explosion of Potential!
Luis A. Vargas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry,
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, NM
Title: Treating Latinos: A Clinician’s Perspective on Issues of Research & Policy
2006 Recipients
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine and Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities
University of California, Davis
Title: Reducing Mental Health Disparities in Latinos: Connecting the Dots
2005 Recipients Click Here for Symposium Information
Luis Fernando Duque
National School of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Title: Lessons from the Early Child Aggression Prevention Program in Medellin, Colombia
Yolanda Torres de Galvis
Director of Mental Health Research, Health Sciences Institute, CES, Medellín, Colombia
Title: Factors Associated with Drug Use among Pre-Teens and Adolescents in Medellín, Colombia
2004 Recipients
Additional funding for scholarships was provided by the Children's Board of Hillsborough County.
Ana Lucía Montemayor Marín - M.A.
Director, Psychoeducational Research Center, Marte R. Gómez Federated School, Adolfo López Mateos Medical and Cultural Center, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Title: Migration and its Impact on Families and Students in Tamaulipas, Mexico
Carmen López Stewart - M.D.
Ministry of Health, Division of Government Health Regulation, Santiago, Chile
Title: From Research to Action: Project Implementation for the Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment of Children’s Mental Health Problems in Schools
Victoria Gabrielle Lidchi - Ph.D.
Center for Integrated Studies of Children, Adolescents and Health,
Consultant and Coordinator, Project ISPCAN (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title: The Use of Systemic Principles to Maximize Resources and Promote the Creation of Child Protective Networks
Natalie Roxana Loncharich Vera - Ph.D.
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Academic Secretary for the Postgraduate School Víctor Alzamora Castro and Associate Professor, Medical Faculty, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Title: Discourses of Street Children Engaged in Prostitution in Peru [PDF 33KB]
Irene Rizzini - Ph.D.
Director, International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI),
Director, Childwatch International
Professor of Social Work, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Brazil: Reflections on "at-risk" children in low income communities in Rio de Janeiro [PDF 28KB]
Fernando Peñaranda Correa
Coordinator Social Programs, International Center for Research and Human Development (CINDE), Antioquia, Colombia
Title: Effectiveness Initiatives: The Case of PROMESA, Colombia- [PDF 27KB]
Sandra Isabel Fuentes Polar - Ph.D.
Collaborative for Children and Families – REDINFA, Lima, Peru
Title: Migration and its Impact on Families and Students in Tamaulipas, Mexico
2003 Recipients
Additional funding for scholarships was provided by the USF Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information Exchange.
Ana Lucía Montemayor Marín - Mexico
Title: Family and School Performance Among High School Children
in Tamaulipas, Mexico
Jorge Trujillo Bautista - Mexico
Title: Looking at Our Children on their Eyes: Project 40-A Comprehensive
Fight Against Extreme Poverty in Tamaulipas, Mexico
Jorge Iván López Jaramillo - Colombia
Title: Application
of the Sociogram Methodology to Community Prevention- In
Spanish [PDF 565KB]
Sabine Romero Bergdolt - Chile
Title: Active Fatherhood: Empowering Fathers in Raising their
Children (Presentation
Paper - PDF, 339KB In
Spanish) and (Presentation
Slides - PDF, 508KB In
Spanish)
Previous Recipients
Additional funding for scholarships was provided by the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information Exchange.
Manuel Calviño - Cuba
Glorisa Canino - Puerto Rico
Alejandra Jimþnez Castro - Chile
Luis Fernando Duque - Colombia
Jorge Iván López Jaramillo - Colombia
Violeta Paguaga - Nicaragua
Roberth Puertas Ruíz - Ecuador
Miguel Angel Ruz - Chile
Fernando Sánchez - Republica Dominicana
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