Denisse Huerta is an assistant public administration analyst for the HEER (Health Economics and Evaluations Research) team at the Center. She assists project managers with program evaluations of various projects. Currently, she is part of the PRIME, WPC and HHP Evaluation teams.
Prior to joining the Center, Huerta was a research assistant at the UCLA Kaiser Center for Health Equity as an undergraduate before becoming a research assistant at the Center. She is originally from Los Angeles and studied Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Journal Article
Authors sought to assess the program's contributions to geriatric and gerontology education by examining the scientific productivity of 294 Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) scientists who received pilot funding from the program during the last complete grant cycle, 2018 to 2023.