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Anna-Michelle McSorley, MPH, PhD
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Scholar, Advocate, & Educator

Committed to health equity and social justice

A Call to Increase Health Data Availability in US Territories—Not Too Small to Count

Peer-Reviewed

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In this Viewpoint article, we highlight gaps in health data availability for U.S. territories and call for an increase in the

availability of these data through the implementation of three key proposed strategies.

United States Federal Policies Contributing to Health and Health Care Inequities in Puerto Rico

Peer-Reviewed

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In this analytic essay, we demonstrate how disperate FEMA disaster response, lack of parity in Medicaid funding, and limited political power contribute to health inequities in Puerto Rico.

Gaps in U.S. Public Health Monitoring and Surveillance Systems in Puerto Rico

Peer-reviewed

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In this original research article, we present the results of a data curation study that revealed significant gaps in the coverage of Puerto Rico within federal public health monitoring and surveillance systems.

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Doctora Anna-Michelle McSorley (she/ella) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice, and Public Health in the School of Global Public Health at New York University..

Dra. McSorley is a Latina-identifying public health scholar, educator, and advocate committed to health equity and social justice. Using interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and mixed methodologies from her training in community health, political science, and public health advocacy, she examines how policies and political processes work for or against the health and well-being of racial and ethnic minority communities in the U.S. She focuses on advancing health equity among Latino/a/@/x/e populations, with a particular emphasis on Puerto Rican communities living in the States and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. In solidarity, her work has expanded to include an examination of the public health policies and systems that shape health for the residents of all five inhabited U.S. territories.

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