The daughter of former farmworkers and sharecroppers, Dr. Patricia Yvonne Miranda-Hartsuff is a health equity policy scholar with over 18 years of experience with community-based participatory methods and expertise in the measurement of population-based health disparities. She has underscored the importance of the intersectionality of gender, race, class and immigration in evaluating health disparities, and has added the critical assessment of the implementation of health in all policies and sociopolitical context to the discourse on health inequity and as a lens to examine important conditions that affect vulnerable populations.

Dr. Miranda joined Wayne State University in August 2020 as tenured Associate Professor of Public Health. Formerly, Dr. Miranda was tenured Associate Professor of Health Policy & Administration and Demography at Penn State (University Park, PA), and W. K. Kellogg Foundation Health Scholar at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX), the top cancer center in the United States. She has been trained by the World Health Organization in the use of the health in all policies approach, and is a graduate of the inaugural 2015-2016 cohort for Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) program, designed to produce doctoral-trained evaluators from diverse backgrounds who are committed to advancing equity and social justice for children and families. Dr. Miranda serves as an evaluator for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Racial Equity Anchors and Alumni Portfolios, as well as an evaluator for the Cross Porfolio Trends project out of the Office of the President. She specializes in culturally responsive and equitable approaches to policy, systems, and cost-inclusive evaluation (e.g. social return on investment, cost-effectiveness/cost-benefit).

Additionally, Dr. Miranda-Hartsuff serves as vice president and director of Uphold, a non-profit organization that enables non-profit and community-based organizations working in youth and community empowerment to recreate and implement measurable programs, and works with community organizations to improve program evaluation, impact assessment, and sustainability. She formerly served as the Scientific Program Chair for the Latino Caucus of the American Public Health Association, where she administered annual requests for abstracts and scientific reviews for presentation.