Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Centre for Reducing Wellbeing Disparities, is the receiver of two national awards for his contributions to science and behavioral well being research.
The Countrywide Hispanic Science Network (NHSN) lately honored Aguilar-Gaxiola with the 2021 Nationwide Award of Excellence in Analysis by a Senior Investigator. The award is presented to a researcher who has created “consistent contributions to the area of drug abuse that are culturally progressive, demonstrate some of the unique features of drug abuse among the Hispanics, and/or have impacted the greater field of drug abuse exploration,” between other requirements.
NHSN is a nationwide and intercontinental group that strives to make important innovations in the area of drug abuse research, which include addressing wellness disparities with an emphasis on advancing health and fitness fairness for Hispanics.
In addition, Aguilar-Gaxiola past month been given the 2021 Lifetime Award for the Improvement of Latino Behavioral Wellness from the Nationwide Latino Behavioral Wellness Affiliation (NLBHA).
Aguilar-Gaxiola been given the award through the NLBHA’s annual convention, a digital function at which he was a keynote speaker. The NLBHA is an organization that promotes a unified nationwide voice for Latino populations in the behavioral wellbeing arena and raises consciousness of the disparities that exist in regions of obtain, utilization, practice-centered investigate and adequately trained personnel.
“I’m deeply honored and humbled by the really important recognition by my peers from two renowned nationwide Hispanic/Latino corporations that eventually aim on achieving overall health fairness mainly, whilst not solely, for Latinos,” Aguilar-Gaxiola mentioned. “Both strive to maximize a diverse behavioral health analysis and exercise workforce that responds to the unmet health and behavioral wellness needs of traditionally underserved populations this kind of as Latinos.”
Aguilar-Gaxiola, a professor of inner medication, has invested a long time studying psychological and material use diseases across numerous populations and in many countries. He holds an M.D. and Ph.D. in scientific-community psychology and did a postdoctoral fellowship in medical and overall health products and services exploration.
Aguilar-Gaxiola founded the Center for Lessening Wellness Disparities in 2005 and is director of the local community engagement method of the UC Davis Overall health Scientific Translational Science Center.