Traumatic Brain Injury Among Hispanic/Latinx Children & Adolescents; Defining the Problem and Developing Solutions. - Health Policy Grand Rounds

"Using the CDC Public Health Approach framework, I will describe 10 years of research in defining the problem of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) among Latinx youth, identifying risk and protective factors for disability after a TBI and co-developing interventions with Latinx caregivers and providers. Through the talk I will describe research strategies that have facilitated this work as well as barriers to community engaged research among Latinx and immigrant populations."

Nathalia Jimenez, MD, MPH, is Professor and Vice Chair for Equity Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the UW School for Public Health. She is a pediatric anesthesiologist and principal investigator at Seattle Children’s Research institute. Her research focus on health disparities and patient outcomes in Hispanic/Latinx children.  Her NIH funded work have identified barriers and facilitators to access to care among Hispanic/Latinx children, and development and evaluation of culturally and linguistically concordant programs to bridge care between hospitals and community services. She is currently funded by an R01 from NICHD to test the efficacy of a behavioral bilingual program, in four different states, to bridge services for families of Latinx children with traumatic brain injury.