Bio
Esmeralda Melgoza, PhD, MPH, CHES is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Her research examines and addresses health inequities in the prehospital setting, with a focus on the Latine/Hispanic population, older adults, and people with limited English proficiency. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Medical Care, Health Affairs Scholar, SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, and Frontiers in Public Health. Her dissertation research was funded by an R36 grant from the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Melgoza received her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a minor in Gerontology from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Dr. Melgoza is a former Senior Research Analyst at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and an alumna of the Yale Ciencia Academy at Yale University. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, mentoring underrepresented students in academia, hiking, and exploring new coffee shops and restaurants.
