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A health economist and social demographer, Dr. Perreira a Professor of Social Medicine and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center. During her tenure in Social Medicine, she has served as an Associate Director for the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award; co-director of the RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center Community Engagement Core; and as the academic co-lead of the Hispanic/Latinx Community Response Team for the North Carolina Community Engagement Alliance (NC CEAL) against Covid-19.
Dr. Perreira has nearly 30-years of experience studying maternal and child health, Hispanic/Latino population health, access to health care, and interventions to improve health and access to health care. Her work utilizes mixed-methods combining population-based surveys with qualitative interviews of patients, health care providers, and health care administrators. Previous work in policy analysis and implementation science includes studies of the implementation of state Medicaid managed care programs, the implementation of the ACA and outreach strategies to immigrant populations, the health consequences of state policies restricting access to health and human services, health care infrastructure reforms in Puerto Rico, and Covid-19 vaccine uptake and testing strategies developed by community-based organizations.
Dr. Perreira has studied a wide range of health outcomes (e.g. anxiety, depression, obesity, diabetes) and has well-established expertise on the recruitment and retention of Hispanic/Latinx and immigrant population samples, and on mixed-methods research. In her research, she utilizes qualitative interview, focus group, and survey-based data from studies that she has designed or co-designed. These studies include Latino Adolescent Migration, Health, and Adaptation Project (LAMHA), Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation (SIAA), the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth) and Stress, Gender, and Minority Status in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (SGM SOL). Dr. Perreira is currently a Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) for an R01 funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) focusing on Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD).
Prior to joining the faculty of UNC School of Medicine, Dr. Perreira served as the Associate Dean of the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) and Professor of Public Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in policy analysis, research design, immigration policy, and health policy. In addition, she has served as a policy analyst/implementation scientist for FHI 360, the Migration Policy Institute, the Rand Corporation, the Urban Institute, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Aging/Geriatrics, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Clinical Trials, Health Equity, Health Services, Implementation Science, Mental illness, Population-based, Rural Health, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Social Determinants of Health, Women's Health |