Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D.

Professor of Health Services Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences 10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90024-6505 Tel: (310) 794-3710 Fax: (310) 794-3724 email: mirandaj@ucla.edu

Biographical Information

Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She is a mental health services researcher who has focused her work on providing mental health care to low-income and minority communities. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Kansas and completed post-doctoral training at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Miranda's major research contributions have been in evaluating the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority communities. She conducted a trial of treatment of depression in impoverished minority patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Traditional care for depression was contrasted with traditional care supplemented by case management. Case management offered additional benefits for Latino patients but were not beneficial for African American and white participants. She has also studied the impact of care for depression in low-income, minority women screened through county entitlement programs. This study found that short term care for depression is effective for impoverished women, but outreach is necessary to engage these women in care. Dr. Miranda is an investigator in three UCLA centers focusing on improving disparities in health care for ethnic minorities. She directs community cores and an innovative research core focusing on translating lifestyle interventions (diet and exercise) for low-income and minority communities. She was the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, published August 2001. She is currently working to develop an evidence-based intervention to support adoptive families. She became a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2005.

Selected Publications

1. Miranda J, Duan N, Sherbourne C, Schoenbaum M, Lagomasino I, Jackson-Triche M, Wells KB. Can Quality Improvements Interventions Improve Care and Outcomes for Depressed Minorities? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Health Services Research, 38(2):613-630, 2003

2. Miranda J, Chung JY, Green BL, Krupnick J, Siddique J, Revicki DA, Belin T. Treating Depression in Predominantly Low-Income Young Minority Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of American Medical Association, 290(1):57-65, 2003

3. Miranda J, Azocar F, Organista K, Dwyer E, Arean P. Treatment of Depression among Impoverished Primary Care Patients from Ethnic Minority Groups Disadvantaged Medical Patients. Psychiatric Services, 54(2):219-25, 2003

4. Miranda, J., Schoenbaum, M., Sherbourne, C., Duan, N., & Wells, K. The effects of primary care depression treatment on minority patients' clinical status and employment. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61(8):827-34, 2004

5. Miranda J., & Cooper L.A. Disparities in Care for Depression Among Primary Care Patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19(2):120-126(7), 2004

6. Miranda J, Siddique J, Belin TR, Kohn-Wood LP. Depression Prevalence in Disadvantaged Young Black Women: African and Caribbean Immigrants Compared to US-born African Americans. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatry Epidemiology, 40:253-258, 2005

7. Miranda J, Green BL, Krupnick JL, Chung J, Siddique J, Belin T, Revicki D. One-year Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial Treating Depression in Low-Income Minority Women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Vol. 62(7), 815-835 (2006)

8. Cook, B., McGuire, T., Miranda, J. Measuring Trends in Mental Health Care Disparities, 2000-2004. Psychiatric Services. Vol.58 (12), 1533-1540, 2007

9. Nadeen, E., Lange, J., Edge, D., Fongwa, M., Miranda, J., Does Stigma Keep Poor Young Immigrant and U.S.-born Black and Latina Women from Seeking Mental Health Care? Psychiatric Services. 2007; 58 (12):1547

10. Stockdale, S., Lagomasino, I., Siddique, J., McGuire, T., Miranda, J. (2008) Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Detection and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Among Psychiatric and Primary Health Care Visits, 1995-2005. Medical Care. In press.