BeRCH Role

Dr. Javier Rosado, as co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the Bioecological Center for Rural Children’s Health (BeRCH), contributes significantly to the Administrative Core by coordinating research activities and facilitating communication among team members. Additionally, he co-directs the FIELDS Study (Farmworker Infants' Environmental and Life Development Study), where his responsibilities include overseeing participant recruitment, managing data collection, and ensuring the integration of chemical and non-chemical stressors in the research. Dr. Rosado also plays a crucial role in community engagement, fostering strong connections with the local population to support the study's objectives.

Personal Bio

Dr. Rosado is a Florida licensed psychologist with specialty in pediatric psychology, clinical health psychology and integrated care. He has vast experience working within Primary Care settings and serving children from Latino migrant farm-working families. Dr. Rosado is the Director of the FSU Center for Child Stress & Health – a partner in SAMHSA’S National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Rosado holds a PhD degree from The Florida State University in Counseling Psychology and Human Systems. During his doctoral education, he interned at the Yale University Medical School, where he completed a pre-doctoral Internship training program in Clinical and Community Psychology. He currently leads several multidisciplinary intervention programs around childhood and adolescent obesity as well as intervention programs to address toxic stress and early childhood trauma. Dr. Rosado’s work has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.