{"id":69718,"date":"2025-01-13T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=69718"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:43:34","slug":"dolores-acevedo-garcia","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/dolores-acevedo-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Acevedo-Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is a professor of Human Behavior, Research, &amp; Policy and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/research-faculty\/centers\/iecohd\/\">Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity &amp; Healthy Development (IECOHD)<\/a>. Her research focuses on the social determinants (e.g. residential segregation, neighborhood inequality, immigrant adaptation) of racial\/ethnic inequities in health; the role of social policies (e.g. housing, anti-poverty, immigrant policies) in reducing those inequities; and the well-being of children with special needs. She received her BA in Public Administration from El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City) and her MPA-URP and PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in Demography from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Acevedo-Garcia uses a child\u2019s rights and health equity perspective, emphasizing that children&#8217;s lives have inherent value, and that society should invest in both ensuring their well-being during childhood and supporting their potential as adults.<\/p>\n<p>She is project director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversitydatakids.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversitydatakids.org<\/a>, a comprehensive research program and indicator database on racial\/ethnic equity in child opportunity and well-being across multiple sectors and geographies, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. diversitydatakids.org is recognized for its rigorous equity-focused data tools and research, including its flagship Child Opportunity Index and Policy Equity Assessments. The project collaborates with researchers, organizations, and policy agencies to improve children\u2019s equitable access to opportunity and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Acevedo-Garcia currently serves on the congressionally-mandated National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Federal Policy Impacts on Child Poverty. From 2017-2019, she served on the NASEM committee that produced the landmark report <em>A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82537,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/69718\/revisions\/82537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}