The MIRA Latino Study brings together a team of investigators from across the country with a long history of collaboration:
Alex Ortega, PhD, MPH (PI)
Dean and Professor of Public Health, Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Affiliate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, PhD, MPP (PI)
Professor of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Faculty Research Director, UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute
Senior Fellow, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP (Co-I)
Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Principal Investigator, CHIS
Professor and Wasserman Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, PhD, MPH (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Public Health, UC Merced
Affiliate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Jim Stimpson, PhD (Co-I)
Professor of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Fernando Wilson, PhD (Co-I)
Director and Endowed Chair, Matheson Center for Health Care Studies, and Professor, University of Utah
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, PhD (Researcher/Co-Study Coordinator)
Research Scientist, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Rosa-Elena Garcia, MPH (Researcher)
Associate Survey Director, RAND
Clara Barajas, MPH (Researcher/Co-Study Coordinator)
PhD candidate, Drexel University