I have a general background in International Development Studies, focusing on gender studies, integrated technological innovations, and community health worker issues. My graduate studies on diffusion of innovation applied to national campaigns (TRUTH, anti-tobacco campaign, VERB, the physical activity campaign, Pink Ribbon breast cancer campaign, Warriors Wounded, etc.) led me to be interested in social marketing and public health.
I have a 20-year experience in global health projects, from conservation to development, in Latin America. The projects consisted of capacity building of vulnerable organizations such as women, indigenous, and farm workers, besides funding integrated components including small economic activities, waste management, and natural resource technical assistance programming.
For the last eleven years, I have studied health-related adult learning and literacy. I started developing training modules on emergency preparedness; the main audience was community health workers/promotores (CHW) that were bilingual and adult learners, many of whom did not have a formal education. My contribution has been to provide cultural competence and to present the modules in objective learning matrices to the Certification Agency in the Texas Department of Health Services; these matrices blended the cultural competencies standards and adult education instructional strategies. The teaching engagement techniques included case studies, experiential examples, and visual material; these teaching strategies were designed to engage this specific audience.
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