Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis. He is also Founding Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the UC Davis Health System. Dr. Aguilar-Gaxiola has nearly 30 years of experience working in the mental health field as a researcher, clinician, professor, and advocate. He is the on-site Principal Investigator of the Mexican American Prevalence and Services Survey (MAPSS), the largest mental health study conducted in the U.S. on Mexican Americans. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association) and also a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He holds several World Health Organization (WHO) advisory, board, and consulting positions, and is the Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (WMH) Consortium. He is also a Steering Committee and Research Scientist member of the National Hispanic Network on Drug Abuse (NHSNDA), a member of the National Latino Healthcare Task Force, and a member of the California Policy Institutes on Health Statewide Advisory Committee.
Research Interest
Clinical community ppsychology, Translational research
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