Rate My Professor Jaime Miranda

Professor Miranda's research integrates epidemiological and health policy dimensions of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries, emphasizing obesity, hypertension, diabetes, mental health, public health, epidemiology, major global burdens of disease, health services and systems, and multimorbidity. His interdisciplinary research model has been highlighted by Nature as scarce worldwide, with his trajectory profiled in The Lancet in 2023. He has amassed over 77,000 citations on Google Scholar. Honors include election as Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2012, selection as one of 30 scientists under 40 redefining science in Latin America in 2014, and election as Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025. He has contributed significantly through leadership roles such as Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General's Independent Group of Scientists for the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (2020-2023), President of the Pan American Health Organization Advisory Committee on Health Research (2014-2016), member of the World Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on NCD-related Research and Innovation (2021-2025), Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2021-2024), Co-Chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Joint Technical Steering Committee (2012-2016), and Councillor for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Epidemiological Association (2011-2014).