Her research focuses on health disparities, including oral health disparities, and the ways in which social and environmental factors affect health risk behaviors, such as tobacco use. Dr. Gonzalez’s research also focuses on the ways in which health behaviors differ between first, second, and third generation Latinos. Dr. Gonzalez received her PhD in Sociology from Stanford University, and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco at the Center for Tobacco Control, Research, and Education.