We're excited to have Dr. Ilana Mittman speak at our 2011 MPhS Kickoff Meeting!

Ilana Suez Mittman, PhD, MS, CGC

Dr. Ilana Mittman describes herself as "a citizen of the world, with cultural roots that cross continents and with an admiration for the enormous opportunity that human diversity affords." She received a Masters degree in genetic counseling from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Department of Health Policy and Management, concentrating on Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Mittman is the recipient of a five-year W.K. Kellogg Foundation pre-doctoral Fellowship in Health Policy Research, focusing on health care disparities.

Dr. Mittman is a Research Associate with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center to Reduce Cancer Disparities. In this role, she oversees the implantation of a five-year NCI grant to reduce cancer disparities within the National Community Network Programs (CNP). The project uses cancer screening information to underserved communities in Maryland. Prior to taking this post, Dr. Mittman was the Director of Health Policy Research for the Sullivan Alliance to Transform America's Health Professions. In that role, she helped guide national efforts to diversify the health professions through forming state collaboratives and networking with professional societies, health professions and schools, and other stakeholders. Dr. Mittman received her doctorate in health policy and management in 2005 from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a Kellogg Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Health Policy Research. Following her graduation from Hopkins, Dr. Mittman joined the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, where she directed a project to increase diversity in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and dentistry in the state of Maryland and worked with local hospitals and academic health centers to increase cultural and linguistic responsiveness among health professionals.

Dr. Mittman's expertise includes diversity, inclusion and equity, access to services, health disparities and minority health issues, minority recruitment and retention, cultural competency, equity in human genome research, social research and health policy and community-based participatory research.