UMass Boston

Couples and Family Therapy

Environmental Justice and Disaster Resilience

Qualitative Research

Family Health

EdD

MPH

Cameron, E., Bacigalupe, G., Tateo, L. (2025). Environmental justice is a pressing topic for global psychology. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation.

Chainé, S.M., Bacigalupe, G., Robles García, R., Lopez Fuentes, A.L., & Romero, V. (Preprint October 11, 2024). Perpetrating-victimizing intimate violence: Self-harm-suicide thoughts and behaviors, mental health, and alcohol use among Mexican youths during COVID-19.  Discover Social Science and Health.

Chainé, S.M., Bacigalupe, G., Robles García, R., Salcedo Gomez, M., Lopez Fuentes, A.L., Treviño Santa Cruz, C.L., Imaz Gispert, M.A., Lira Chávez, I.A., & Rangel Gómez, M.G. (2024, June 26). Intimate violence: Alcohol and drug use, and mental health during COVID-19 among young Mexican adults. Revista Internacional De Investigación En Adicciones, 10(1), 1–16.

Bacigalupe, G., Gibb, C., Greene, D. et. al. (2023, December 18). Sustaining the research and the researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A dose of the collective method as a strategy. The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies (AJDTS), 27(1), 27-37 ISSN: 1174-4707.

Cameron, E., Tateo, L., & Bacigalupe, G (2023, April 2023). Call for papers: “Environmental justice and psychology: Alternative ideas on environmental issues” International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation 12.2 (2023): 132–133.

Chainé, S.M., Bacigalupe, G., Robles García, R., Montoya, A.L., Felix Romero, V., Imaz Gispert, M.A. (July 31, 2023). Interpersonal and intimate violence in Mexican youth: Drug use, depression, anxiety, and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(15), 6484.

Gonzalez, R., Ramirez-Santana, M., Moya, P.S., Bringa, E.M., Bacigalupe, G., Ramirez, M., & Kiwi, M. (June 15, 2023). Model based on COVID-19 evidence to predict and improve pandemic control. PLoS ONE 18(6): e0286747.

Gonzalez, R., & Bacigalupe, G. (2021), March 27). COVID-19 y el desastre regional [COVID-19: a regional disaster.]. CIPER Académico.

Iwama, A.Y., Araos, F., Anbleyth-Evans, J., Marchezini, V., Ruiz-Luna, A., Ther, F., Bacigalupe, G., & Perkins P.E. (2021, March 3). Multiple knowledge systems and participatory actions in slow-onset effects of climate change: insights and perspectives in Latin America and Caribbean. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 31- 42.

Plocha, A., Bacigalupe, G. (2020, October 9). How do parentally bereaved emerging adults define resilience? It’s a process. Journal of College Counseling, 23 (3), 247-261.

Bacigalupe, G., Gonzalez, R.J., Cuadrado, C., Sandoval, V., & Farias, R. (2020, July). O desastre chegou ao Chile: A falida estratégia do COVID-19. O dia que o Ministro da Saúde renunciou [The disaster arrived in Chile: The failed COVID-19 strategy. The day the Minister of Health resigned.] Dados – Revista de Ciências Sociais

Watson, M., Bacigalupe, G., Daneshpour, M., Han, W.J., & Parra-Cardona, R. (2020, June 26). COVID-19 interconnectedness: Health inequity, the climate crisis, and collective trauma. Family Process, 59 (3).

Ojeda, L., Bacigalupe, G., Pino, A. (2019, June 1). Coproducción después de un incendio forestal urbano: Reconstrucción posterior a un desastre de un asentamiento informal en Chile. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización, 90 (1), 205-234.

Cubelos, G., Valenzuela, B., Kularathna, S., Iliopoulos, N., Quiroz, M., Yavar, R., Henríquez, P., Bacigalupe, G., Onuki, M., Mikami, T., Cienfuegos, R., Aranguiz, R., & Esteban, M. (2019, June 26). Assessing tsunami awareness in remote coastal towns in Northern Chile through community mapping. Geosciences, 9(7), 297. doi:10.3390/geosciences9070279

Tironi, M., Bacigalupe, G. Knowles, S. Dickinson, S., Gil, M., Kelly, S., Ludwig, J., Moesch, J., Molina, F., Palma, K., Siddiqi, A., & Waldmueller, J. (2019, February 12). Figuring disasters, an experiment on thinking disruptions as methods. Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, doi:10.1080/21693293.2019.1567013

Atallah, D., Bacigalupe, G., & Repetto, P. (2019, January 23). Centering at the margins: Critical community resilience praxis for global mental health equity research. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0022167818825305

Bacigalupe´s research asks the question of how citizen participation is enabled by and builds community resilience for disaster reduction through technology innovations and education in situated contexts, the impact of emerging media adoption on families. He has published and presented on the role of emerging digital technologies and vulnerable populations including online patient communities, transnational families and couples,& political and family violence, family health and disparities (celiac disease, chronic pain, and medication strategies and literacy), e-health, social technologies and disaster risk reduction.

An abstract plastic artist, with an artist certification issued by the City of Boston and member of the Fort Points Art Collaborative. His work has been showcased at the 2018 exhibition: Liminal Territory and the Cartographies of Bodies and Territories January of 2019 at the PUC Innovation Center, the UC Campus San Joaquín Library, and the Casa Central Hall. He is a winner of the 2018 and 2019 Artifica Awards. His book catalog Cartographies of Bodies and Territories was published in 2019. He is preparing an exhibition and a new book named Uncertain Cartographies, Spring of 2020. His paintings have been included in a book cover and the American Psychologist and a report published by the Mauricio Gastón Institute. He directed the COVID-19 Latinx Art Project with two UMASS Boston students, an art research project to support artistic expressions related to the pandemic, racism, and the Latinx experience. His most recent exhibition in 2022 is the Quarantine Series.

Gonzalo  was president of the American Family Therapy Academy (2014-2016). He was recipient of the American Psychological Association Carolyn Attneave Diversity Award; and the Massachusetts Association of Marital and Family Therapy Award in Recognition of Exceptional Contribution to the Profession of Family Therapy; APA fellow of the Society of Family Psychology, International Psychology, and Quantitative and Qualitative Methods divisions, and editorial board member of Family Process, Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, Qualitative Research in Psychology, and Revista Psykhe.

Professor Bacigalupe was co-principal investigator of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Pilot research project Influence and evidence: Understanding consumer choices in preventive care and faculty in the Health Equity Scholars Program of the UMass Center for Health Equity Intervention Research (CHEIR), an NIMHHD P-60 5 years grant for a joint effort of the UMASS Medical School and UMass Boston. For several years he was associate research professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UMASS Medical School. In conjunction with the Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation (o+Berri) and the Population Health Management Research Team at Kronikgune, Bacigalupe evaluated the role of healthcare virtual communities of practice and the role of social networks in supporting patients with chronic illness. He collaborated with the Deusto Stress and Resilience Research Team and the Basque Prescribe Healthy Life (PVS) research team and its primary health practice outcome based implementation research.  A passionate advocate of patient participation, his work was featured in the 2014 Stanford MedX Conference. At Harvard, Gonzalo was research coordinator of a project that intended to expand the participation of patients of color in clinical trials (Phase 3).  Until 2020, Bacigalupe was principal investigator at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), leading an education and citizen government research projects and led a community cartography participatory action research initiative that employ drones to strengthen disaster risk reduction among vulnerable communities in Chile.