Andrea Thoumi
Area Lead, Community Health and Equity and Faculty Director, Health Equity Education at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Executive Team Member for LATIN19
Andrea combines expertise in health policy, health financing, health equity, and community health. She aims to address health inequities by generating and translating evidence to change policy and clinical practice while centering community perspectives. She focuses her research on identifying health policies that mitigate systemic barriers that Latiné populations experience. Other Duke appointments include as a Core Faculty Member and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-Margolis and as a Consulting Associate at the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She serves as an Executive Team Member at the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19) in North Carolina and as Vice Chair for AcademyHealth’s Health Equity Interest Group. She holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and BA in Community Health and International Relations from Tufts University.
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In the early months of the pandemic, over 75% of patients coming into the ER identified as Hispanic, Latino or Latinx/e, even though Latinos represent only about 15 percent of Durham’s population, and 10
(now 11) percent of North Carolina’s state population.
Andrea Thoumi
Area Lead, Community Health and Equity and Faculty Director, Health Equity Education at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Executive Team Member for LATIN19
Andrea combines expertise in health policy, health financing, health equity, and community health. She aims to address health inequities by generating and translating evidence to change policy and clinical practice while centering community perspectives. She focuses her research on identifying health policies that mitigate systemic barriers that Latiné populations experience. Other Duke appointments include as a Core Faculty Member and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-Margolis and as a Consulting Associate at the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She serves as an Executive Team Member at the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19) in North Carolina and as Vice Chair for AcademyHealth’s Health Equity Interest Group. She holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and BA in Community Health and International Relations from Tufts University.
In the early months of the pandemic, over 75% of patients coming into the ER identified as Hispanic, Latino or Latinx/e, even though Latinos represent only about 15 percent of Durham’s population, and 10 (now 11) percent of North Carolina’s state population.
Watch full interview