Marilyn Aguirre-Molina

She taught courses in Health Equity and Social Justice and Program Planning and Funding. Specifically, her applied research activities centered on the impact of policies, poverty and racism on urban poor populations, with the focus on policy development to address the social determinants of health. She conducted research on birth outcomes among women in the South Bronx, where infant mortality rates are among the highest in New York City. Aguirre-Molina edited several books on Latino health, among them the seminal, “Health Issues in the Latino Community” (with C. Molina & R. Zambrana, 2001). She was commissioned by the UN Population Fund to study AIDS poverty and gender inequality in Latin America and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study primary and preventive care among Latino Populations. Before arriving at CUNY, Aguirre-Molina was professor of population and family health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Before returning to academia, she served as executive vice president at the California Endowment, and senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She served on numerous national boards and committees, including the APHA, NIH-NIAAA, and the IOM Study Section. As a Kellogg Foundation fellow, she studied the impact of political economy on health systems. She served on the NY State Health Foundation Advisory Board and was a founding director of the CUNY Institute for Health Equity, housed at Lehman College.