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  • Miguel Reina Ortiz, MD, PhD, CPH, FAIM, FASTMH

Miguel Reina Ortiz, MD, PhD, CPH, FAIM, FASTMH

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Doctoral Program in Global Health Leadership (DrPH)

Miguel Reina Ortiz
Pronouns:
He/his/him
Phone:
317-278-0761
Email:
mreina@iu.edu
Departments:
Community and Global Health
Additional Appointments:
Affiliated Faculty Member, IU Center for Global Health Equity, IU Indianapolis
Affiliate Member, Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), Emory University
Chair, Global Health Subcommittee, Scientific Program Committee, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
Adjunct Faculty, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)
Degrees:
MD, Medicine and Surgery,
PhD, Public Health, Global Communicable Diseases,
MPH, Public Health,
MD, Microbiology,

Resume/CV

Health Sciences Building, RG
1050 Wishard Blvd
Indianapolis, IN
46202
Research interests:

Behavioral Economics
Community Health Needs Assessments
Emergency Preparedness
Global Health
Global Health Diplomacy
Infectious Disease
Public Health Surveillance

Biography

Global health scientist and practitioner with focus on global health diplomacy and global health security-related topics. His leadership experience includes appointed, merit-based, and elected positions both within and outside academia.

Research content expertise includes the application of behavioral economics, informed by community-engaged research, for the development infectious disease prevention and control strategies. His research expertise also includes the survey of post-disaster and post-pandemic health outcomes, including infectious disease dynamics. As such, his research contributes to the broader field of Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (i.e., pandemic preparedness, resilience, mitigation, response and recovery).

Research methods expertise includes quantitative and qualitative approaches. In addition, use of GIS applied to Health and development of Epidemic Compartmental Models.

Dr. Reina Ortiz's professional experience ranges from clinical care in international settings, to leadership positions in overseas healthcare units and global health professional organizations. In addition, he has served in the coordination, supervision, and collaboration of interdisciplinary teams at the international level. Experience also includes leading multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary projects, requiring compliance with university, state, federal, and host country regulations.

Dr. Reina Ortiz's previous academic, research and scholarly activities have been conducted in (and/or in collaboration with colleagues in) global settings, including Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Panama, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua in Latin America; United States and Canada in North America; Israel, India, Nepal, and Japan in Asia; Kenya in Africa; and Australia in Oceania, among others.

Current Projects

  • Track PCC (Comagine Health/IU Team)

Selected Publications

  1. Financial Incentives, Not Behavioral Nudges, Led to Optimized HIV Testing among Pregnant Women in a High-Burden Urban Population in Ecuador. 

  2. Using Incentives and Nudging to Improve Non-Targeted HIV Testing in Ecuador: A Randomized Trial. 

  3. A holistic approach to redefining Nepal's health-care system. 

  4. Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Japanese university students (years II-IV). 

  5. Developing Global Health Diplomacy-related Skills Using a COVID-19-like Epidemic Simulation as a Learning Strategy. 

  6. Post-earthquake Zika virus surge: Disaster and public health threat amid climatic conduciveness. 

  7. HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge and Behavior among School-attending Afro-Descendant Youths in Ecuador. 

  8. A tailored telehealth group tobacco cessation treatment program for people with HIV: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 

  9. Effects of chronic ascariasis and trichuriasis on cytokine production and gene expression in human blood: a cross-sectional study. 

  10. Syphilis and HIV/Syphilis Co-infection Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in Ecuador. 
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