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Aida Luz Maisonet Giachello is an educator and a writer and uses research to address social justice issues in the areas of health and human services. She was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has a bachelors' degree in social sciences from the University of Puerto Rico; a masters' degree in social services administration from the University of Chicago, specializing in community organizing, planning and social policy; and a Ph.D. in medical sociology, also from the University of Chicago, specializing in Hispanic/Latino/minority health.
In 1993, she established the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC), where she conducted health disparities research on diabetes, asthma, cancer, injury prevention, occupational health, maternal and child health with a cross-cultural focus; trained Latino/minority undergraduate, pre- and post-doctorate, junior faculty and junior investigators in research methodologies; and engaged in pol
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A framed quote in Dr. Aida Luz Maisonet Giachello's Chicago office states: "If you have faith even as tiny as a mustard seed, all things are possible." This sentiment eloquently describes Giachello's own life journey, from an impoverished childhood in Puerto Rico to the corridors of academic excellence at the University of Chicago—and ultimately to the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There, Giachello works tirelessly to collect and analyze data—and to use that data to enact policies that promote good health, prevent disease, and control chronic illnesses. Although some progress has been made, much remains to be done. "The poor, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and women are still not getting [adequate] access to health care," says the 64-year-old grandmother of five.
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