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Dr. Gloria Coronado has a community appointment in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health as a Professor in the Health Systems Management and Policy programs, primarily Health Systems & Policy. In this role, Professor Coronado’s work includes collaborating on research with primary SPH faculty members, and mentoring or advising PhD students in HSP.

An experienced epidemiologist, Professor Coronado champions affordable, long-term solutions to health disparities issues. She currently serves as the Mitch Greenlick Endowed Distinguished Investigator in Health Disparities Research at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. She completed her training at Stanford University and the University of Washington.

Professor Coronado’s research has focused on understanding and addressing disparities in the occurrence and burden of disease in underserved populations, with a special emphasis on testing cancer prevention intervention in underserved and Medicaid-enrolled populations. She has developed several innovative and cost-effective interventions to improve rates of participation in cancer screening among patients served by community health centers. Her innovative work has led to successful partnerships with large health plans, state institutions, and clinics serving migrants and the uninsured.

She currently directs or co-directs three programs that use systems-based approaches to raise the rates of colorectal cancer screening in health plans and clinics in Washington, Oregon and California. Over the course of her career, Professor Coronado has served as the PI, co-I or co-PI on over 35 federally funded grants worth over $80 million in direct costs; she has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Education, Degrees

B.A., Stanford University, 1994
M.S., University of Washington, 1998
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001