Andy Moralez

E. Andy Moralez, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado Denver in Health and Behavioral Science and his MPH from New Mexico State University specializing in community health education. He also served as a faculty member at the Southern New Mexico Family Residency Program in New Mexico, and as a Research Project Lead with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Dr. Moralez's research collaborations focus on the intersection of public health and...See more

E. Andy Moralez, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado Denver in Health and Behavioral Science and his MPH from New Mexico State University specializing in community health education. He also served as a faculty member at the Southern New Mexico Family Residency Program in New Mexico, and as a Research Project Lead with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Dr. Moralez's research collaborations focus on the intersection of public health and clinical medicine, working in interprofessional groups (e.g., medical anthropologists, social workers, and clinical psychologists) to improve patient care and community health. This included his doctoral research, which examined the impact of chronic illness severity on depression outcomes in primary care settings among low-income, complex patients. His most recent clinical-based research focused on training family medicine residents in communication strategies to discuss chronic pain and treatment management and integrate social determinants of health into the residency curriculum. He has also served as a program evaluator for various public health and clinical interventions.His recent work has focused on developing and implementing supplemental public health education outside the classroom to promote students' collaboration with community partners. Dr. Moralez has published in public health and medical education journals, including Frontiers in Public Health, the Journal of Cancer Prevention, the Journal of Education and Health Promotion, and the American Board of Family Medicine Journal. See less