Our Team
Directors
Maria Noboa De Garcia
Sr. Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
- Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center
Email Address:[email protected]
In her role as health promotion facilitator, Maria works in the Denver area and facilitates and implements for the RMPRC School Wellness Program. She works with preschoolers, elementary students, parents, and school staff in low-income preschools/elementary schools focusing on promoting nutrition education, physical activity, and overall health and wellness.
Previously, Maria worked at Vive Wellness Foundation where she served as a health coach facilitator for the “Transforming Your Wellbeing” program. In this role, Maria was responsible for preparing and facilitating workshops specifically designed for Vive’s leadership and instructors to develop strategies for improving mental and overall wellbeing. The ultimate goal of the program was to empower members of the Hispanic community to take control of their health, specifically mental and behavioral wellness.
Core directors and advisors
Maria Noboa De Garcia
Sr. Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
- Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center
Email Address:[email protected]
In her role as health promotion facilitator, Maria works in the Denver area and facilitates and implements for the RMPRC School Wellness Program. She works with preschoolers, elementary students, parents, and school staff in low-income preschools/elementary schools focusing on promoting nutrition education, physical activity, and overall health and wellness.
Previously, Maria worked at Vive Wellness Foundation where she served as a health coach facilitator for the “Transforming Your Wellbeing” program. In this role, Maria was responsible for preparing and facilitating workshops specifically designed for Vive’s leadership and instructors to develop strategies for improving mental and overall wellbeing. The ultimate goal of the program was to empower members of the Hispanic community to take control of their health, specifically mental and behavioral wellness.
Affiliated faculty
Maria Noboa De Garcia
Sr. Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
- Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center
Email Address:[email protected]
In her role as health promotion facilitator, Maria works in the Denver area and facilitates and implements for the RMPRC School Wellness Program. She works with preschoolers, elementary students, parents, and school staff in low-income preschools/elementary schools focusing on promoting nutrition education, physical activity, and overall health and wellness.
Previously, Maria worked at Vive Wellness Foundation where she served as a health coach facilitator for the “Transforming Your Wellbeing” program. In this role, Maria was responsible for preparing and facilitating workshops specifically designed for Vive’s leadership and instructors to develop strategies for improving mental and overall wellbeing. The ultimate goal of the program was to empower members of the Hispanic community to take control of their health, specifically mental and behavioral wellness.
Center administration and project staff
Maria Noboa De Garcia
Sr. Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
- Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center
Email Address:[email protected]
In her role as health promotion facilitator, Maria works in the Denver area and facilitates and implements for the RMPRC School Wellness Program. She works with preschoolers, elementary students, parents, and school staff in low-income preschools/elementary schools focusing on promoting nutrition education, physical activity, and overall health and wellness.
Previously, Maria worked at Vive Wellness Foundation where she served as a health coach facilitator for the “Transforming Your Wellbeing” program. In this role, Maria was responsible for preparing and facilitating workshops specifically designed for Vive’s leadership and instructors to develop strategies for improving mental and overall wellbeing. The ultimate goal of the program was to empower members of the Hispanic community to take control of their health, specifically mental and behavioral wellness.
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Denver Team Member Highlight
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Charlotte Farewell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor - Research, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Tell me a little about your background and previous experience.
I am an Assistant Professor with the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center and Director of the Population Mental Health and Well-being concentration at the Colorado School of Public Health. After receiving my MPH from the Tulane School of Global Health and Tropical Medicine with a focus on maternal and child health.
Why did you decide to work at CU and with the RMPRC?
I started working with the RMPRC as a Professional Research Assistant because of their focus on community-based participatory research and well-being promotion.
What are you currently working on?
I am now a Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator on intervention projects which seek to promote the well-being of low-resourced populations (e.g., pregnant and postpartum individuals, early care and education caregivers). I am currently PI of a training grant funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (Mothers Optimizing Resources Everyday (MORE)) where the primary research objective is to integrate advanced analytical modeling with qualitative data to inform the timing, duration, content and delivery modalities of a multi-level psychological capital intervention rooted in mindfulness-based best practices to promote perinatal well-being among specific low-resourced sub-groups. Her research experience, to date, is centered around three overarching goals: (1) to build expertise related to the analysis of developmental research questions using quantitative and qualitative methods, with specific focus on mental health (depression, stress, and anxiety) during sensitive periods (prenatal, postpartum, early childhood), (2) to investigate non-pharmacological methods (e.g. mindfulness and positive psychology interventions) that can be targeted and/or mobilized to optimize population mental health and resilience, and (3) to advance research in the field of dissemination science to identify core constructs that are most critical to enhance the uptake of evidence-based behavioral interventions into community and clinical settings. She enjoys collaborating with, and learning from, the excellent interdisciplinary researchers at the RMPRC, using mixed methods to investigate novel research questions, and partnering with local, national, and international communities.