Mireia Triguero Roura, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science,
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Mireia Triguero Roura is a social scientist and postdoctoral research scientist in the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science at the Institute for Health at Rutgers. Her current research examines how criminalization and racial inequality shape population health, with a focus on substance use treatment access and outcomes in the United States. Trained as a mixed-methods researcher, she integrates causal inference, multilevel modeling, survey experiments, and qualitative content analysis to understand how policy and social structures reproduce racial inequities.

Dr. Triguero Roura earned her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, where her dissertation investigated how ancestry and race structure national belonging and public attitudes toward redistribution, work supported by a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Her work has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications and ongoing collaborative research in political sociology, racial inequality, and substance use epidemiology. She has presented her research at national and international conferences, including the American Sociological Association, the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and the Council on European Studies. Broadly, Dr. Triguero Roura aims to inform equitable public health and social policy by illuminating how racialized systems of punishment shape health and well-being.