Dr. Alegría is the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mongan Institute, and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the improvement of health care services delivery for diverse racial and ethnic populations, conceptual and methodological issues with multicultural populations, and ways to bring the community’s perspective into the design and implementation of health services. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of three National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research studies: The Impact of Medicaid Plans on Access to and Quality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment, Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care and Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders. In October 2011, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in acknowledgement of her scientific contributions to her field. She has also been a recipient of notable awards, such as the Health Disparities Innovation Award by the National Institutes of Minority Health (2008) and most recently, the Steven Banks Award by the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (2019). She obtained her B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown University in 1978 and her Ph.D. from Temple University in 1989.