Monika Mitra, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Disability, Health and Employment Policy Unit, Center for Health Policy and Research
333 South Street
Shrewsbury, MA
USA 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.

Papers:
2060.0 Economic wellbeing and life satisfaction among working and non-working adults with disabilities 2061.0 Participatory research findings on measuring the quality of health care delivery for persons with disabilities 3303.1 Disparities in adverse preconception risk factors between women with and without disabilities 4160.0 An update on the effects of tobacco cessation services on smoking rates among Massachusetts Medicaid recipients 4170.0 Impact of the independent living philosophy and the recovery model on health care 4170.0 Intersection of race, ethnicity and disability: The merits of a fully inclusive and informed public health discourse