University of Massachusetts Medical School
Center for Health Policy and Research
333 South Street
Shrewbury
MAUSA
01545
Biographical Sketch: Monika Mitra is a Research Scientist with the Disability, Health and Employment Policy Unit, at the Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Prior to joining University of Massachusetts, Dr. Mitra worked as Senior Epidemiologist with the Office on Health and Disability at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health where she played a vital role in the integration of disability in the Department of Public Health’s programmatic and surveillance initiatives. For more than a decade she has been researching health disparities between persons with disabilities and the general population and the epidemiology of secondary conditions among persons with disabilities. At the University of Massachusetts she is continuing her research on health, health-related quality of life, employment and disability.