William Vega
Expert in health, mental illness and substance abuse, especially in Latinos, older adults and children
Provost Professor and Executive Director, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, USC School of Social Work
Contact at: (213) 740-1887 or williaav@usc.edu
Expertise:
- mental health
- mental illness among Latinos
- Mexican American health
- immigrant health and health care
- substance abuse and treatment, including among teens
- aging and older adults
- health care access and disparities
- health care across ethnic groups
- cultural and linguistic barriers to quality health care
- Holds USC appointments in social work, preventive medicine, psychiatry and family medicine
- Served on numerous boards and task forces, including those for National Institutes of Health, U.S. Attorney General's Task Force on Methamphetamine, Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health, Committee on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Effectiveness, and the Institute of Medicine Health Disparities Roundtable
- Elected member, Institute of Medicine
- Member, advisory committees for National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
- Ranked in top half of 1 percent of the most highly cited researchers worldwide in social science literature over the past 20 years by ISI Web of Science, 2006
- Recipient, Society for Prevention Research's Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award and National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse's National Award of Excellence in Research by a Senior Scientist, 2002
- Has published more than 170 articles and chapters, in addition to several books
Foreign Languages:
Spanish
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