Jose Reyes Hurtado
Dr. Hurtado is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the California State University, Long Beach. His work focuses on advocacy in optimizing human service organizations’ (HSOs) performance. His research trajectory is to improve the management and performance of HSOs and, ultimately, to improve the quality of health care services provided to marginalized and underserved communities. He completed his PhD and MSW at the University of Southern California, and completed his undergraduate education at the California State University, Dominguez Hills.
2023 – PhD, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. University of Southern California.
Doctoral Advisors: Julie Cederbaum, Ph.D. (Chair), John Blosnich, Ph.D., and Nicole Esparza, Ph.D.
Dissertation: A Descriptive Study of Advocacy as a Strategy in Designing Human Service Organizations
2010 – MSW, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. University of Southern California.
2005 – BA, Department of Sociology. California State University, Dominguez Hills. Honors.
BA, Department of Political Science. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Research on the role of advocacy on improving the management and performance of human service organizations (HSOs), and the effects of managerialism on HSO performance. Focus areas include: Organizational behavior; Patient/client, organizational, and policy advocacy; Organizational performance; Organizational capacity and program evaluation; Culturally responsive evaluation.
