Email

ag3@bcm.edu

Addresses

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy (Office)

One Baylor Plaza
Suite 310D
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

MPH from Harvard University T.H Chan School of Public Health

03/2020 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

Global Health, Maternal and Child Health

BA from Rice University

05/2013 - Houston, Texas United States

Kinesiology, Global Health Technologies

PhD from Harvard University

05/2027 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

Health Policy (Political Analysis)

Honors & Awards

Fulbright Scholarship

English Teaching Assistant Award grantee to Madrid, Spain

Fulbright U.S. Student Program (09/2013 - 06/2014)

Health Policy Research Scholar

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (09/2023 - 07/2027)

Professional Interests

• Health Policy
• Public Health
• Health Equity
• Hispanic/Latino Health

Professional Statement

Amanda M. Gutierrez, MPH is a public health researcher focused on improving access to quality health care for medically underserved populations. Currently, she is a Health Policy PhD candidate in Political Analysis at Harvard University. Her areas of expertise include access to care, public health policy, and health equity, with a focus on Hispanic/Latino populations. She has worked internationally in Central and South America around improving health education and care access as well as conducting health systems research, and has over ten years of experience researching the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic technologies. Her current research includes a policy-focused qualitative study exploring stakeholders' views nationwide on how to improve engagement of US Hispanic/Latino communities with genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk. She also conducts research on improving language access in health care for limited English proficient populations in the US. She is interested in policy translation and the intersection of empirical health research and public policy. She received her BA from Rice University in 2013 and her MPH in global health with a specialization in maternal and child health from Harvard University in 2020.

Selected Publications

• Gutierrez AM, Hofstetter JD, Dishner EL, Chiao E, Rai D, McGuire AL "A Right to Privacy and Confidentiality: Ethical Medical Care for Patients in United States Immigration Detention." Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 2020 Apr;48(1):161-168. Pubmed PMID: 32342781
• Gutierrez AM, Statham EE, Robinson JO, Slashinski MJ, Scollon S, Bergstrom KL, Street RL, Parsons DW, Plon SE, McGuire AL "Agents of Empathy: How Medical Interpreters Bridge Sociocultural Gaps in Genomic Sequencing Disclosures with Spanish-Speaking Families." Patient Education and Counseling. 2018 Dec 10;S0738-3991(18):31016-4. Pubmed PMID: 30581014
• Gutierrez AM, Robinson JO, Statham EE, Scollon S, Bergstrom KL, Slashinski MJ, Parsons DW, Plon SE, McGuire AL, Street RL "Portero versus Portador: Spanish Interpretation of Genomic Terminology during Whole Exome Sequencing Results Disclosure." Personalized Medicine. 2017;14(6):503-514. Pubmed PMID: 29749861
• Gutierrez AM, Robinson JO, Outram S, Smith HS, Kraft S, Donohue K, Biesecker B, Brothers K, Chen F, Hailu B, Hindorff L, Hoban H, Hsu R, Knight S, Koenig B, Lewis K, Lich KH, O’Daniel J, Sasaki SO, Tomlinson G, Waltz M, Wilfond B, Ackerman S, Majumder MA "Examining Access to Care in Clinical Genomic Research and Medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2021;5(1):e193. Pubmed PMID: 34888063

Projects

Considerations for Equitable Engagement of Hispanic/Latino Populations with Hereditary Cancer Risk Testing

NIH National Cancer Institute (09/2020 - 03/2022)

Texas KidsCanSeq: Evaluating utility and improving implementation of genomic sequencing for pediatric cancer patients in the diverse population and healthcare settings of Texas

National Human Genome Research Institute

BASIC3: Baylor Advancing Sequencing in Childhood Cancer Care

National Human Genome Research Institute

Funding

A Case Study on Latinx Community Perspectives about Creating a Cancer Genomic Variant Commons - #3R01CA237118-02S1

(09/01/2020 - 03/31/2022) Grant funding from NIH National Cancer Institute

Role: Post-Master's Trainee (PIs: Drs. Robert Cook-Deegan & Amy McGuire). The purpose of this study is to identify challenges and potential policy solutions related to access to genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk among Hispanic/Latino populations in the US.

Intellectual Property

Design Patent #8535277 (Approved)

A small low-cost clip that prevents overdosing when using an oral syringe to dispense liquid oral medication.

Co Inventors: Maria Oden, Julia Lukomnik, Cindy Dinh, Carlos Amaro

Languages

Spanish