Angie Jimenez

Angie Jimenez (she/her/ella) serves as a research program coordinator in the Institute for Health & Humanity within the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Angie works in the Multicultural and Latinx Health Equity Research Program, where she coordinates research studies focusing on culturally tailored and targeted assessments and interventions with Hispanics/Latinxs, Asians, and underserved communities. She coordinates a community-engaged research study focused on investigating the feasibility and acceptability of a telehealth intervention for Puerto Rican men, as it relates to eating habits, physical activity, sedentary time, and clinically meaningful weight loss. She also works with trainees that are part of the Multicultural Health, Obesity and Cancer Health Equity Research Scholars Program, focused on offering mentorship and training in multicultural approaches to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging focused on obesity, cancer, cardiometabolic disease and behavioral health research.

Angie is a first-generation college graduate. She received her BS in Human Biology from Alverno College. She completed an internship with Partners in Hope at the Community Warehouse as an assistant program developer, where she worked closely with formerly incarcerated individuals as they re-enter the community, offering resources and mental health services. Angie also completed an internship with Wisconsin Area Health Education Centers (AHEC). Prior to joining the Institute for Health & Humanity, Angie was a research program assistant at the Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS) within MCW. At CAPS, her work focused on multiple research studies addressing diabetic kidney disease risk on African Americans with unmet needs in Milwaukee.

She is passionate for public health and science and is determined to focus her work on ways that will benefit underserved populations.