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 Margarita Alegria, PhD, is the director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research (CMMHR) at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She is a professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and currently serves as the principal or co-principal investigator of three National Institutes of Health-funded research studies. Dr. Alegria's published work focuses on the improvement of health care 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. Dr. Alegria also conducts research that will contribute to an understanding of the factors influencing service disparities, and testing interventions aimed at reducing disparities for ethnic and racial minority groups. Her other work has highlighted the importance of contextual, social, and individual factors that intersect with nativity and are associated with the risk for behavioral health problems. In conducting this work, she has actively mentored numerous students and junior investigators. As a result of her contributions to her field, Dr. Alegria received the 2003 Mental Health Section Award of the American Public Health Association, the 2008 Carl Taube Award, from the American Public Health Association, the Health Disparities Innovation Award from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the 2009 Simon Bolivar Award from the American Psychiatry Association. In 2011 she received the Harold Amos Diversity Award from the Harvard Medical School Office of Diversity and Community Partnership.
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