Building Community Capacity to Heal Our Communities of Color Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST / 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
Join us over Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf–oqDsqGNZrFjpBEii5aqNEdHjSsDVM
Speaker: Margarita Alegría, PhD
Dr. Margarita Alegría, the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Alegría is currently the PI of four National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research studies: the International Latino Research Partnership; Effects of Social Context, Culture and Minority Status on Depression and Anxiety; Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders; and Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Disorders. She is also the PI of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) project: Effectiveness of DECIDE in Patient-Provider Communication, Therapeutic Alliance & Care Continuation. Dr. Alegría has published over 200 papers, editorials, intervention training manuals, and several book chapters, on topics such as improvement of healthcare services delivery for diverse racial and ethnic populations, conceptual and methodological issues with multicultural populations, and ways to bring the community’s perspective into the design and implementation of health services.
As an acknowledgment of her contributions to her field, Dr. Alegría has been widely recognized and cited. Among her awards are the Mental Health Section Award of the American Public Health Association, 2003; the Health Disparities Innovation Award from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2008; and the Award of Excellence from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse in 2011. In October 2011, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Alegría was selected as El Planeta’s (Massachusetts’s largest circulating Spanish-language newspaper) 2013’s Powermeter 100 most influential people for the Hispanic community in Massachusetts. More recently, Dr. Alegría received the Cynthia Lucero Latino Mental Health Award from William James College and Steven Banks Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
The aims of the DNC Speaker Series are to highlight research on prevention science and public health that is led by researchers from underrepresented groups and primarily conduct research with groups that are understudied (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, individuals who identify as a sexual minority, individuals with disabilities). The presentation series will also aim to create a forum for the guest speaker(s) to share career/professional reflections as a researcher from an underrepresented group(s) and to promote discussions of diversity and inclusion in professions related to prevention science and public health.
Questions: Jennifer Lewis, SPR Executive Director, jenniferlewis@preventionresearch.org.