Hector P. Rodriguez
Dr. Hector P. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and a faculty affiliate of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. His research focuses on the organizational determinants of health care quality and the determinants of racial, ethnic, and linguistic disparities in health and health care quality. In particular, his research has focused on patients’ experiences of ambulatory care and public opinion related to health care reform.
Dr. Rodriguez is also involved in multiple state efforts to further refine patient experience measures, to calibrate the measures to important outcomes of care and to test interventions designed to advance patient-centered care and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care quality. He received his Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego.
Project Title: The Influence of Utilization and Care Site Factors on Latino
Patients’ Experiences of Chronic Illness Care
Project Databases: Pew Hispanic Center’s survey of Hispanics in the United States
Recent and Pending Publications
"Quality of Care among Latinos with diabetes: A national study of patient, care site, and regional factors." Submitted for Publication.