Staff

Rosa Marcano
Research Technician II, SF State

 

Rosa Marcano, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, completed her BA in Social Psychology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1979. In 1982, she came to San Francisco to learn English and to pursue a Master Degree in Psychology, which she completed in 1985 from Antioch University West.

Since 1985, Rosa has worked as a Field Director in many multicultural health research projects (cancer, AIDS, smoking cessation, access to maternity care, etc.) for local universities such as UC Berkeley, UCSF, USF, as well as for private research firms. She has collaborated in designing questionnaires and interviews, writing protocols for data collection, pre-testing measurement instruments, and conducting focus groups in Spanish and English. Rosa has also overseen sampling procedures and organized and coordinated all aspects of data collection, including hiring, training and supervising large culturally diverse staff of interviewers.

As a result of her involvement in research projects with minority populations, Rosa started to translate into Spanish in an effort to sensitize and maximize the accuracy of the academic data collection in a language different than English. One of Rosa’s main concerns is how to implement research results into community improvements. Rosa’s current areas of interest are on stress, elderly, and SES in minorities, especially in the Spanish community.