Hortensia Amaro, PhD, is a distinguished professor at Northeastern University and Associate Vice Provost of Community Research and Dean’s Professor of Social Work and Preventative Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Amaro has produced over 100 scientific publications, focusing mainly on epidemiological and community-based studies of alcohol and drug use among adolescents and adults, along with development and resting of behavioral interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention, and substance abuse and mental health treatment for Latina and African American women and incarcerated men.
She has served on the editorial boards and advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the NIH, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Amaro established the Institute on Urban Health Research to converge interdisciplinary and community-based research focusing on ethnic health disparities and health in urban communities. This community research organization has partners on a local, regional, and national scale, examining health conditions that disproportionately affect urban and minority populations and includes substance abuse, mental illness, interpersonal violence, HIV risk behaviors, discrimination in health care, obesity and more.
Amaro is the recipient of the 1993 Award to Distinguished Contributors to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Reward. She has also founded three substance abuse treatment programs for women in Boston titled The MOM’s Project, the Entre Familia Residential Treatment Program, and MORE, an outpatient treatment program for women with co-occurring disorders. She is a founding member of the National Latino Psychological Association, formerly the National Hispanic Psychological Association, and past chair of the Committee on Concerns of Hispanic Women in APA’s Division on the Psychology of Women.
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