Recent Publications
Multiple Imputation for Response Biases in NLAAS Due to Survey Instruments (with Xiao-Li Meng, Jingchen Liu and Margarita Alegria) 2006 Proceedings of the
American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association
Power-Shrinkage and Trimming: Two Ways to Mitigate Excessive Weights (with Nanhua Duan, Xiao-Li Meng and Margarita Alegria) 2006 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association
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Margarita Alegria, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research and a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Alegria researches mental health services for Latinos and other ethnic populations. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Advanced Center for Mental Health Disparities, and the Latino arm of the National Latino and Asian American Study, as well as the Co-Principal Investigator of the CHA-UPR Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training (EXPORT) Center. Her published works focus on mental health services research, conceptual and methodological issues with minority populations, risk behaviors, and disparities in service delivery. Dr. Alegria received her Ph.D. from Temple University.
Nicholas Carson MD,FRCPC is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Research Associate at the CMMHR. His research interests are in mental health service use of ethnic minority youth, effects of mass media, and psychopharmacology. He is currently conducting a mental health chart review of Haitian youth. He received his M.D. from McGill University and did his psychiatric training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Cambridge Health Alliance.
Chih-nan Chen, Ph.D. is a Research Analyst at the Center. He received a Master of Economics from National Taiwan University in 1999, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Boston University. Dr. Chen´s fields of research include Bayesian data analysis and multiple imputation.
Benjamin Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H.is a Research Fellow at the CMMHR and an instructor at the Harvard Medical School. His research interests are in improving methods for measuring disparities, and applying these methods to understanding the mechanisms underlying mental health and substance abuse treatment disparities, the association between acculturation and mental health, and geographic differences in mental health service use disparities. He received a Ph.D. in Health Policy at Harvard University concentrating in Evaluative Science and Statistics, a MPH from UNC-Chapel Hill in the department of Health Behavior and Health Education, and a BA in psychology from Swarthmore College.
Tara Earl, Ph.D. is a Research Associate with the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research and a Post Doctoral Fellow in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has an interest in examining the effects of race and ethnicity on mental health service utilization and accessibility. Currently, Dr. Earl is examining the diagnostic and assessment process for persons of African and Caribbean descent through the Advanced Center for Mental Health Disparities. Her research background includes work relating to sibling caregiving practices, public managed care systems, and disparities in mental health treatment. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin.
Julia Lin, Ph.D., is the Research Statistician of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research. Her research interests are causal models and mental disorders. She completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania where she was an NIMH pre-doctoral trainee. In her dissertation work she developed Bayesian hierarchical latent class models for looking at the effects of intervention on outcomes accounting for subject non-adherence to treatment randomization in longitudinal studies using the principal stratification framework.
Norah Mulvaney-Day, Ph.D., a Research Associate at the Center, is a mental health services researcher and social policy analyst. She has a background in community-based research, participatory research and health care systems analysis. Her research at the Center has included pilot testing a cultural competency assessment tool at different levels of the hospital system, and a participatory systems enhancement project to improve special education services for disruptive children in a public school setting. She received her Ph.D. in mental health policy from Brandeis University. 
Ora Nakash, Ph.D.,is a Research Associate at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research and an Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include studying the effects of immigration, gender inequality and poverty on mental health. Dr. Nakash is a Clinical Psychologist who is also a staff psychologist at the Program for Psychotherapy at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Nakash was born in Israel and is fluent in Hebrew and English. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston University.