Michelle Y. Martin Romero, PhD

Michelle Y. Martin Romero, PhD, is an assistant professor of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her doctoral degree in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University in 2018. She completed postdoctoral training as an NIH T32 fellow with the Carolina Consortium on Human Development of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2018–2020). At the heart of Martin Romero’s research lies the objective to understand resilience and resistance processes as they relate to cardiometabolic health disparities in the context of racism and resulting racial-ethnic stress and trauma among racially-ethnically minoritized individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. Undergirding this objective is the goal to better support racially-ethnically minoritized communities as they navigate ever-present and complex systems of oppression that ultimately deteriorate health and quality of life.