Noe C. Crespo
Pronouns: He/Him
Professor
Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
SDSU
Bio
Dr. Crespo’s research focuses on reducing health disparities and conducting multi-level community- and family-based interventions to prevent chronic disease among Latinos and underserved populations. He has experience conducting multi-level and large-scale interventions to promote physical activity and healthy eating. Dr. Crespo also studies the health consequences of sedentary behavior and conducts behavioral interventions to reduce sedentary behavior in worksites. More recently, he has conducted research to develop and test effective strategies to prevent COVID-19, increase testing for COVID-19 and increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among underserved communities. His research has been conducted in collaboration with several organizations including schools, worksites, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and parks & recreation centers. He has served as PI and co-I on several large-scale obesity prevention randomized controlled trials. Currently, he is PI of three NIH R01 projects aimed at evaluating behavioral interventions to prevent household and community spread of COVID-19 among Latino patients, a clinical/community intervention to promote COVID-19 vaccines among Latinos in San Diego and a binational multi-level trial to promote fitness, reduce obesity and improve diet among Latino parents and children is San Diego and in Mexicali. He is also the PI of an NIMHD-funded T32 pre-doctoral training program called ALIADOS, focused on Latino health and multi-level interventions.
Education
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, T32 in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, University of California San Diego
- PhD Public health (Health Behavior), San Diego State University/University of California San Diego (2009)
- MPH (Epidemiology/Biostatistics), University of Southern California (2005)
- MS Exercise Physiology, California State University Los Angeles (2003)
- BS Exercise Science, California State University Los Angeles (2003)
Areas of Specialization
- Chronic Disease Prevention
- Health Disparities, Minority Health, Health Equity
- Cardiovascular Health, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Diet, Fitness, Obesity, Type II Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, COVID-19
- Community and Multilevel Interventions (schools, worksites, occupational health, clinics, parks & recreation centers)
- COVID-19 testing, prevention, vaccine uptake
- Border health