jeanne miranda, Ph.D.

Investigator Development Core

Address
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Box 957082
Suite 300
UCLA Wilshire Center
10920 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7082

Phone
(310) 794-3710

Fax
(310) 794-3724

Email
mirandaj@ucla.edu

Biography
Dr. Miranda is Assistant Director of the Health Services Research Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.  She is a mental health services researcher who has focused her work on providing mental health care to low-income and minority communities.  She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kansas and completed post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Miranda's major research contributions have been in evaluating the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority communities.  She conducted a trial of treatment of depression in impoverished minority patients at San Francisco General Hospital.  Traditional care for depression was contrasted with traditional care supplemented by case management. Case management offered additional benefits for Latino patients but were not beneficial for African American and white participants.  Her most recent NIMH-funded trial is a study of care for depression in low-income, minority women screened through county entitlement programs.  She is an investigator in two UCLA centers focusing on improving disparities in health care for ethnic minorities.  She directs community cores and an innovative research core focusing on translating lifestyle interventions (diet and exercise) for low-income and minority communities.  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 August 2001, and she was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005.