Faculty Profiles
Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo
Assistant Professor
Human Behavior in the Social Environment and Social Welfare Policy
Coordinator, Racism Course
Phone: 617-353-6637
humberto@bu.edu
Education
B.A. (ethnology) Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México
M.S.W. (social work) Simmons College School of Social Work
M.A. (social policy) Brandeis University
Ph.D. (social policy) Brandeis University
Courses Taught
HB735 Implications of Racism
WP700 Social Welfare Policy I
WP701 Social Welfare Policy II
Scholarly and Practice Interests
Dynamics of racism and other forms of oppression; substance abuse; health disparities; race/ethnicity
Selected Publications and Presentations
Reynoso-Vallejo, H. (in review). Does individual-level social capital influence illicit drug use? Findings from a national representative sample in the United States.
Reynoso, H. (2005). The relationship between social capital and substance abuse treatment utilization among drug using Puerto Rican women. Doctoral Dissertation, Brandeis University.
Weitzman, P., Chang, G, & Reynoso, H. (2004). Middle-aged and older Latino American women in the patient-doctor interaction. Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology. Sep;19(3).
Capitman J. & Reynoso H. (2004). Inclusion and Diversity.Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Community Partnerships for Older Adults.
Levkoff, S., Hinton W., Simmons, J., Lam, M., Hicks, M., Guo, Z., Hillygus, J., Dunigan, R., Lui, B., Reynoso, H, Levy, R., Fung, S., Kleinman, A. (1997). A qualitative analysis of dementia explanatory models across four ethnic groups. In Iqbal K., Winblad, B., Nishimua, T., Takeda, M., Wisniewski, H. M. (Eds.). Alzheimer’s Disease: biology, diagnosis and therapeutics. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Selected Presentations
Reynoso-Vallejo, H. (2006). Substance abuse treatment and social capital among drug using Puerto Rican women. 33rd International Congress of Schools of Social Work. Santiago, Chile
Reynoso-Vallejo, H. (2005). Social capital and drug abuse treatment utilization. 4th International Conference on Urban Health, Toronto, Canada.
Reynoso-Vallejo, H. (2005). Substance abuse treatment and social capital among
low income Latinas. 29th Conference of the Association for Medical Education and Research in substance Abuse. Bethesda, MD.
Reynoso-Vallejo, H. (2000). Culture and health literacy: Assessment of Latino-Americans in the US dealing with Dementia. Presentation at the World Alzheimer’s Congress, Washington, DC.
Awards and honors
Research training grant in substance abuse from the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), Brandeis University, 2000
Dean’s leadership award, Simmons College School of Social Work, 1998
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún National Award Honorable Mention, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Mexico, Thesis title: Alzheimer’s Disease in a Puerto Rican Family of Boston: The Perspective of Medical Anthropology, 1998
