Professor HumbertoGonzalez is a Senior Research Professor (Profesor-Investigador Titular C) at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Western Regional Unit, Mexico. His research focuses on the relationships between health, environment and society, with particular emphasis on pesticide exposure, environmental justice, agroecology and socio-environmental inequalities in agricultural territories.
For more than four decades, he has conducted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in rural Mexico, especially in regions characterised by intensive agriculture. He has coordinated major research projects funded by CONAHCYT/SECIHTI on childhood exposure to pesticides and its potential health impacts. His work combines biomonitoring, ethnographic research and participatory approaches with farming communities, schools and civil society organisations.
Professor Gonzalez has contributed to the development of conceptual frameworks linking environmental contamination with historical, territorial and structural processes affecting vulnerable populations. He has published on environmental health, agroecological transitions and rural transformations, collaborating with researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions in Mexico and abroad.
In addition to his research activities, he has supervised graduate students, contributed to doctoral programme development and participated in national academic evaluation committees. His current i
Professor HumbertoGonzalez is a Senior Research Professor (Profesor-Investigador Titular C) at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Western Regional Unit, Mexico. His research focuses on the relationships between health, environment and society, with particular emphasis on pesticide exposure, environmental justice, agroecology and socio-environmental inequalities in agricultural territories.
For more than four decades, he has conducted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in rural Mexico, especially in regions characterised by intensive agriculture. He has coordinated major research projects funded by CONAHCYT/SECIHTI on childhood exposure to pesticides and its potential health impacts. His work combines biomonitoring, ethnographic research and participatory approaches with farming communities, schools and civil society organisations.
Professor Gonzalez has contributed to the development of conceptual frameworks linking environmental contamination with historical, territorial and structural processes affecting vulnerable populations. He has published on environmental health, agroecological transitions and rural transformations, collaborating with researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions in Mexico and abroad.
In addition to his research activities, he has supervised graduate students, contributed to doctoral programme development and participated in national academic evaluation committees. His current i