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Alinne Barrera, PhD is a California licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in working with Spanish-speaking and Latinx communities. Her scholarly work is focused on depression prevention, intervention adaptations, and the use of technology to deliver maternal mental health resources. As a trainee, she built a strong foundation in the detection and treatment of major depression using standardized measures and evidence-based interventions. During the past 15 years Dr. Barrera has dedicated her research program to adapting and empirically testing internet and SMS versions of the Mothers and Babies Course/Curso Mam谩s y Beb茅s, a prevention of postpartum depression intervention recently recognized by the US Prevention Services Task Force. She is committed to working with clinicians and trainees who aim to reduce mental health disparities, especially among new mothers. Dr. Barrera is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at Palo Alto University and serves as Associate Director at the Institute for International Internet Interventions for Health (i4Health). She is a 2020 Mom Board Member and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Latinx Psychology. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, her doctoral degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Violeta J. Rodriguez’s research is focused on understanding the mechanisms that contribute to, maintain and/or exacerbate health disparities among minoritized youth and their families.  By focusing on both youth and their parents, she explores how the intricate association between parenting and health inequities can either mitigate or exacerbate these disparities, particularly in understudied and underserved populations (e.g., Global South countries, racially and ethnically minoritized people, immigrant families, Spanish-speaking caregivers and youth, LGBTQIA+ families, families disproportionately affected by chronic illness). 
She is committed to improving assessment methods used to evaluate health outcomes and predictors (e.g., parenting) in parents and youth, ensuring their validity across different cultural (cross-cultural and multicultural), research, and clinical contexts. Through the development of culturally sensitive and contextually appropriate assessment tools, she aims to improve the accuracy of how we assess various factors (e.g., parenting) in research and interventions. She is interested in the translation of evidence-based health promotion strategies and interventions into underserved settings to promote health equity using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles, and informed by implementation science frameworks (e.g., MOST, CFIR).
Education
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia
MS, Psychology, University of Georgia
MSEd, Research, Measurement and Evaluation, University of Miami
BA, Psychology, Florida International University
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