Mia Hernandez, B.A.

About Mia

Mia is a first-year MSPH student in the Social and Behavioral Interventions program in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is also pursuing a certificate in Maternal and Child Health. Her previous research examined the intersection of unstable housing and mental health among transgender women, and she is now conducting a review of mental health policy in Bogotá, Colombia to support cross-sector collaboration and inform efforts to integrate mental health into public policy.

Her future research interests focus on women’s sexual and reproductive health, particularly how social and structural determinants shape access to care and health outcomes. She aims to use community-engaged approaches to expand access to quality sexual and reproductive health services in rural and Indigenous communities across Latin America.

Research Interests

• Sexual and reproductive health
• Maternal and child health
• Mental health policy and systems
• Structural and social determinants of health
• Community-engaged research in Latin America
• Health inequities in underserved populations