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Maria Rosario Araneta is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Community Partnerships at UCSD School of Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. She received her BA in Biology from UC San Diego, her MPH in Epidemiology from Yale University, and her PhD in Epidemiology, with a focus on Perinatal Epidemiology, also from Yale. Araneta has received numerous accolades, including the American Diabetes Association’s Vivian Fonseca Nagendran Family Diabetes Research Award in 2014. She has authored and led approximately nine publications in 'Diabetes Care' and has served on significant advisory councils, such as the NIH Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities from 2015 to 2019. Her primary research interests encompass maternal and pediatric health, HIV/AIDS, ethnic health disparities, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. She is a co-principal investigator for the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study and has led studies focused on diabetes within Filipino communities. Araneta has also taught Epidemiology courses for the UCSD CREST/MAS program and contributed significantly to medical education initiatives in Ethiopia.
UCSD School of Medicine • La Jolla, CA, USA
UCSD School of Medicine • La Jolla, CA, USA
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).