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Margarita Alegría

Margarita Alegría

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
39106
World Ranking
6794
National Ranking
3587

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Rema Lapouse Award, American Public Health Association
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Margarita Alegría is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has established a substantial body of work concentrating on psychology, health professions, and social sciences. Their research spans clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, sociology and political science, and health.

The primary topics covered by their research include mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, migration, health and trauma, health disparities and outcomes, racial and ethnic identity research, child abuse and trauma, and health policy implementation science.

Their frequent coauthors include Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, Jenny Zhen-Duan, Kiara Álvarez, Irene Falgas-Bagué, and Sheri Lapatin Markle. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of studies and publications.

Margarita Alegría has published research in multiple well-regarded venues, notably:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Some of the recent scholarly papers include:

  • "Disparities in Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Conditions" (2022) published in PEDIATRICS
  • "Barriers to Mental Health Service Use and Predictors of Treatment Drop Out: Racial/Ethnic Variation in a Population-Based Study" (2020) published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • "Recent Advances on Social Determinants of Mental Health: Looking Fast Forward" (2023) published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Transforming Mental Health And Addiction Services" (2021) published in Health Affairs
  • "The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: transforming mental health implementation research" (2024) published in The Lancet Psychiatry

Their research outputs have received citations that reflect engagement from the academic community, with notable citation counts such as 121 for the 2022 PEDIATRICS paper and 74 for the 2023 American Journal of Psychiatry article.

Alegría has been recognized through awards including the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association in 2020 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of Mental Illness in Immigrant and Non-Immigrant U.S. Latino Groups

    Margarita Alegría;Glorisa Canino;Patrick E. Shrout;Meghan Woo

  • Disparity in depression treatment among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.

    Margarita Alegría;Pinka Chatterji;M.P.H. Kenneth Wells;Zhun Cao

  • Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites

    Margarita Alegría;Glorisa Canino;Ruth Ríos;Mildred Vera

  • Use of Mental Health-Related Services Among Immigrant and US-Born Asian Americans: Results From the National Latino and Asian American Study

    Jennifer Abe-Kim;David T. Takeuchi;Seunghye Hong;Nolan Zane

  • Prevalence of psychiatric disorders across Latino subgroups in the United States.

    Margarita Alegría;Norah Mulvaney-Day;Maria Torres;Antonio Polo

  • Considering context, place and culture: the National Latino and Asian American Study

    Margarita Alegria;David Takeuchi;Glorisa Canino;Naihua Duan

  • Mental health service use in the community and schools: Results from the four-community MECA study

    Philip J. Leaf;Margarita Alegria;Patricia Cohen;Sherryl H. Goodman

  • The DSM-IV rates of child and adolescent disorders in Puerto Rico: prevalence, correlates, service use, and the effects of impairment.

    Glorisa Canino;Patrick E. Shrout;Maritza Rubio-Stipec;Hector R. Bird

  • Prevalence and correlates of everyday discrimination among U.S. Latinos

    Debra Joy Perez;Lisa R. Fortuna;Margarita Alegria

  • Comparative prevalence, correlates of impairment, and service utilization for eating disorders across US ethnic groups: Implications for reducing ethnic disparities in health care access for eating disorders

    Luana Marques;Margarita Alegria;Margarita Alegria;Anne E. Becker;Chih-nan Chen

  • Social cohesion, social support, and health among Latinos in the United States

    Norah E. Mulvaney-Day;Margarita Alegría;William Sribney

  • Immigration-Related Factors and Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans

    David T. Takeuchi;Nolan Zane;Seunghye Hong;David H. Chae

  • Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

    Margarita Alegría;Amanda NeMoyer;Irene Falgàs Bagué;Ye Wang

  • Racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric mental health.

    Margarita Alegria;Melissa Vallas;Andres J. Pumariega

  • Acculturation and the lifetime risk of psychiatric and substance use disorders among Hispanics.

    Alexander N. Ortega;Robert Rosenheck;Margarita Alegría;Rani A. Desai

  • Depressive and disruptive disorders and mental health service utilization in children and adolescents.

    Ping Wu;Christina W. Hoven;Hector R. Bird;Robert E. Moore

  • Correlates of Past-Year Mental Health Service Use Among Latinos: Results From the National Latino and Asian American Study

    Margarita Alegría;Norah Mulvaney-Day;Meghan Woo;Maria Torres

  • Mental health and substance use disorders among Latino and Asian American lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults.

    Susan D. Cochran;Vickie M. Mays;Margarita Alegria;Alexander N. Ortega

  • Family Cohesion and Its Relationship to Psychological Distress Among Latino Groups

    Fernando I. Rivera;Peter J. Guarnaccia;Norah Mulvaney-Day;Julia Y. Lin

  • Cultural relevance and equivalence in the NLAAS instrument: Integrating etic and emic in the development of cross-cultural measures for a psychiatric epidemiology and services study of Latinos

    Margarita Alegria;Doryliz Vila;Meghan Woo;Glorisa Canino

Frequent Co-Authors

Glorisa Canino
Glorisa Canino University of Puerto Rico
Patrick E. Shrout
Patrick E. Shrout New York University
David T. Takeuchi
David T. Takeuchi University of Washington
Hector R. Bird
Hector R. Bird Columbia University
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Jennifer Greif Green
Jennifer Greif Green Boston University
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Nancy A. Sampson
Nancy A. Sampson Harvard University
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas G. McGuire
Thomas G. McGuire Harvard University

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