Prevention and Health Behavior
Faculty and Staff
Maria Esther Romero is a Research Coordinator in the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior. Ms. Romero joined the Institute for Prevention Research of Weill Cornell Medical College in 1994. She currently creates and maintains the Division’s databases, documents and files related to the different areas of field study; conducts staff development training; and assists with the coordination of field activities, the design of evaluation tools, in the submission of IRB protocols, and in the recruitment of research participants. Her responsibilities have also included serving as the Managing Editor of Prevention Science and helping the new Editor and Managing Editor of the publication during a six-month transition period. Before coming to WCMC she worked as a Child Interviewer at the Family Resources & Housing Dynamics Project, a five-year federally funded grant at New York University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Community Psychology Department. Throughout the years she has enjoyed using vacation time to work in orphanages, youth homes, and nurseries in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Florida, and NYC.
