Maichou Lor Editor

Glenn Martínez, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the Ohio State University, Ohio, USA. He has made significant contributions to the research surrounding Hispanic sociolinguistics and language policies in the United States. He has published extensively in the area of language policies in the health delivery system of the United States.

Pilar Ortega, MD, is Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is also a board-certified Emergency Physician. She has devoted much of her career to improving healthcare access for linguistically underrepresented people, and she is Founder and President of the National Association of Medical Spanish.

Maichou Lor, PhD, RN, is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Wisconsin, USA. Her research is concerned with determining how language barriers and health communications produce disparities in health outcomes of patients. She has published original research in the areas of nursing, public health, health communication, interpreter services, and health literacy.

A. Susana Ramirez, PhD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Public Health Communication at the University of California in Merced, California, USA. Working as an infomediologist, she focuses on improving health outcomes for rural Latino populations. She is a nationally recognized expert on media, inequality, and Latinx culture. She has been widely published in research journals and has made regular appearances on national news networks including NPR, ABC News, Univisión, and the Huffington Post.