Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

677 Huntington Avenue
Kresge Building 7th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Research

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia has a doctoral degree in public policy and demography. She joined the HSPH faculty in 1998. Her research interests include the effect of social determinants (e.g. residential segregation, immigrant integration) on health disparities, especially along racial and ethnic lines, and the role of non-health policies (e.g. housing policies, immigrant policies) in reducing those disparities.

Education

Ph.D., 1996, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
MPA-URP, 1990, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ