NIMHD DSS: Drs. Miguel Marino and John Heintzman

Presentation Objectives

• Latino health and health care inequities are persistent across numerous health conditions; understanding and improving these inequities requires a comprehensive and multi-level approach.
• Primary care is a crucial, underutilized, and widely accessed setting to study health care disparities in Latino patients and provides a comprehensive window into many aspects of health and disease.
• Studying Latino health equity in primary care allows an in-depth study of numerous pressing factors: care system performance, community and system strengths, social determinants of health, the study of disaggregated Latino groups, and innovations for the future.

Dr. Miguel Marino is an associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He is co-director of the Primary Care Latino Equity Research (PRIMER) Center. His research focuses on developing and implementing statistical methodology to address complexities associated with using electronic health records to study health equity and changes in health policy among low-income disadvantaged populations seeking care in primary care clinics.

Dr. John Heintzman is a board-certified family physician, health equity researcher, and practicing community health center clinician. He is an associate professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon and co-director of the Primary Care Latino Equity Research (PRIMER) Center. He started his research career formally with a Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2012 for delivering preventive services to Latino immigrants in Oregon community health centers, and this portfolio has continued as he has partnered with Dr. Miguel Marino on multiple NIH-funded projects in Latino primary care equity in health center settings.

Seminar Logistics

• The seminar will be videocast and available on this page and in the NIH Video archives after the presentation.
• Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request.

• Individuals who need reasonable accommodation to participate should contact Edgar Dews (phone: 301-402-1366) at least five business days before the event.