Isabella is Crescendo is a bilingual Research Analyst who recently graduated from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health earning a Master’s in Health Science with a concentration in Mental Health. She was born in Colombia and immigrated at a young age to Miami, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Science and a double minor in Chemistry and French language and culture.
Her passion for minority community health led her to join Centro SOL, Hopkin’s Latino health equity center. During her time here she worked diligently with an interdisciplinary team to bring to life the mission of the center in promoting equity in health and opportunity for Latinos by advancing clinical care, research and education in active partnership with the community. Her research included the development and facilitation of an awarded NIH grant funded program to address maternal mental health among Latina immigrant mothers. Other projects included an R56 pediatric primary care suicide prevention program for Latino youth and R34, a program to address childhood overweight disparities among Latino children in immigrant families. Her work has further included Redcap survey development, translation of educational material, literature reviews, and facilitation of focus groups as well as qualitative interviews.
Isabella’s lived experiences and graduate work have led her to embody the core principle of conducting research with the community and not on the community through using evidence-based research to yield actionable change.