Jeanne Miranda, PhD

Dr. Jeanne Miranda is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA. Her major research contributions have been in evaluating mental health care for low-income and minority women. She was the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity — A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, published in August 2001. She became a member of the Institute of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine, in 2005. Dr. Miranda is the 2008 recipient of the Emily Mumford Award for Contributions to Social Medicine from Columbia University.