Nursing Perspectives: Bridging Mental Health Disparities in Safety-Net and Underserved Communities
Experiences from a Public Health Nurse
The GW Nursing Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion invites you to Nursing Perspectives, a webinar series featuring diverse voices from practicing nurses.
For this installment, speaker Laura Mata López, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, presents Bridging Mental Health Disparities in Safety-Net and Underserved Communities: Experiences from a Public Health Nurse. She will share her experience as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner working with primarily Latinx undocumented patients in California.
About The Speaker
Laura Mata López received her BSN and MSN degrees from Boston College and has a background in Public Health Nursing. In the past five years, she has been practicing as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in a medically-underserved county in California. In this work, she has performed clinical and leadership administrative duties focused on improving mental health access and utilization among Latino(a) Immigrant families across the lifespan in the integrated primary care public health setting. She is a second year PhD student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and her research focuses on exploring the relationship between migration-related traumatic experiences and mental health outcomes among Latinx immigrants, and to identify protective communal resources that nurture the cultural resilience of this population.