Elva Arredondo, PhD

Dr. Arredondo is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Core Investigator in the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH) at San Diego State University. She is a bilingual/bicultural native of Mexico with over 18 years of research experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating community-based programs that improve the health of ethnic minority and socially/economically disadvantaged communities. Since attaining her doctoral degree in 2003, she has served as PI, Co-PI or subcontract PI of 16 grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others. Her research focuses on developing evidence-based multi-level interventions to reduce chronic diseases among Latino and other underserved communities. This research has results in over 100 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and scientific entries. Currently, she’s also the Principal Investigator of the SDSU/UCSD Cancer Center Partnership which aims to identify effective, sustainable, and disseminable methods to prevent and control cancer in the U.S. Latino/Hispanic population (U54CA132384). Dr. Arredondo earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Washington, Seattle and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University.  She completed her clinical internship in behavioral medicine from the University of California, San Diego.