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Margarita Alegría, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Margarita Alegría is Chief of the Disparities Research Unit, part of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also The Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr Lehnert Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In October 2011, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

 

Awards

  • Carl Taube Award, American Public Health Association
  • Health Disparities Innovation Award, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
  • Rema Lapouse Award for Achievement in Epidemiology, Mental Health, and Applied Public Health Statistics, American Public Health Association
  • Simon Bolivar Award, American Psychiatry Association