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Daniel Palazuelos, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Part-time

Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH is a community health implementer-educator who holds positions at Harvard Medical School (HMS), the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Partners In Health (PIH). He started his career in global health equity by living and working with community health workers (CHWs) in impoverished communities in Chiapas, Mexico, and these grassroots experiences have deeply influenced his approach to addressing the biggest challenges in global health. He worked over two decades to launch Compañeros En Salud - México (CES, PIH's program in Mexico), the Financing Alliance for Health (FAH, which helps governments design and fund ambitious, affordable, and at-scale community health programs), and the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC, an advocacy, research and organizing initiative led by many of the most innovative implementers in community health). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as the Technical Lead for the PIH-US Public Health Accompaniment Unit's work supporting migrant workers in Immokalee, Florida. Building on this US-domestic focus, he is currently working with the Office for Community-Centered Medical Education (OCCME) at HMS to support Boston-based community organizations and the students looking to partner with those organizations.

Now as a clinician-educator in the Hospital Medicine Unit at BWH in Boston, the Director of Community Health Systems at PIH, a strategist for the PIH project in Mexico, a mentor, course director, and OCCME director at HMS, a residency assistant program director at BWH, and board member for CHIC, FAH and CES, his unified goal is to assure that our finest clinicians are trained to understand the community perspective, and our health care system strengthening efforts are aligned to the real needs of people living in the poorest and most difficult circumstances.

National Prevalence of Diabetes and Barriers to Care Among U.S. Farmworkers and Association With Migrant Worker Status.
Authors: Authors: Olson RM, Nolan CP, Limaye N, Osei M, Palazuelos D.
Diabetes Care
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Adoption of mHealth Technologies by Community Health Workers to Improve the Use of Maternal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Protocol for a Mixed Method Systematic Review.
Authors: Authors: Kachimanga C, Divala TH, Ket JCF, Kulinkina AV, Zaniku HR, Murkherjee J, Palazuelos D, Abejirinde IO, Akker TVD.
JMIR Res Protoc
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Breaking the silence on gendered harassment and assault of community health workers: an analysis of ethnographic studies.
Authors: Authors: Closser S, Sultan M, Tikkanen R, Singh S, Majidulla A, Maes K, Gerber S, Rosenthal A, Palazuelos D, Tesfaye Y, Finley E, Abesha R, Keeling A, Justice J.
BMJ Glob Health
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Integrating multi-national teams: over a decade of lessons learned in Chiapas with Partners in Health-Mexico.
Authors: Authors: Palazuelos D, Flores H, Macias V.
Front Public Health
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Characteristics of Global Health Careers among Graduates of a Global Health Equity Residency Training Program in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Matias WR, Cuneo CN, Richterman A, Beckett AG, Farrar AE, Rhatigan JJ, Palazuelos D.
Ann Glob Health
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Lessons from an eight-country community health data harmonization collaborative.
Authors: Authors: Ballard M, Olsen HE, Whidden C, Ressler D, Metz L, Millear A, Palazuelos D, Choudhury N, Munyaneza F, Diane R, Lue K, Bobozi PÉ, Raut A, Ramarson A, Andrianomenjanahary M, Finnegan K, Westgate C, Omwanda W, Wang L, Citrin D, Rogers A, Aron MB, Christiansen M, Watsemba A, Adamjee R, Yembrick A.
Glob Health Action
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Continuity of community-based healthcare provision during COVID-19: a multicountry interrupted time series analysis.
Authors: Authors: Ballard M, Olsen HE, Millear A, Yang J, Whidden C, Yembrick A, Thakura D, Nuwasiima A, Christiansen M, Ressler DJ, Omwanda WO, Lassala D, Palazuelos D, Westgate C, Munyaneza F.
BMJ Open
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COVID-19 Pandemic Response in a Migrant Farmworker Community: Excess Mortality, Testing Access and Contact Tracing in Immokalee, Florida.
Authors: Authors: Limaye N, Ninesling B, Marcelin F, Nolan C, Sobba W, Hing M, Ptaszek E, Léandre F, Palazuelos D.
Ann Glob Health
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The Immokalee Community Health Coalition: Operationalizing Trust.
Authors: Authors: Murtagh C, Asbed G, Ptaszek E, Leandre F, Monacello V, Hing M, Pedretti J, Marcelin F, Chávez GR, Perkins J, DeYoe R, Palazuelos D.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
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A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in Neno District, Malawi.
Authors: Authors: Wroe EB, Nhlema B, Dunbar EL, Kulinkina AV, Kachimanga C, Aron M, Dullie L, Makungwa H, Chabwera B, Phiri B, Nazimera L, Ndarama EPL, Michaelis A, McBain R, Brown C, Palazuelos D, Lilford R, Watson SI.
BMJ Glob Health
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