Max Jordan Nguemeni, MD, MS

I am a general internist and health equity researcher committed to improving the quality of care and health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities. My research program pursues two overarching goals. First, I explore dynamic processes that produce racial health inequities. Second, my work evaluates various interventions that could help mitigate health inequities. I have taken a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach through my work, integrating theories and methods from social and quantitative sciences. I have conducted and participated in the execution of cross-sectional studies, longitudinal studies, focus groups, interview-based studies, policy document analyses, community-based studies, and intervention-based studies to get a deep understanding of processes that shape health inequality. I have produced research that explores these mechanisms and potential solutions in a few domains: the quality of care for cardiovascular complications of substance use, the quality of pain and opioid use disorder (OUD) care in the general population and among pregnant patients, the impact of environmental exposures on perinatal health outcomes, and factors that influence physician workforce diversity along the training spectrum. Disseminating my work beyond traditional channels is essential, and I hope to inform policies at various levels. For example, my work on access to buprenorphine for OUD led me to participate in a listening session convened by SAMHSA on the use of high-dose buprenorphine for OUD, which ultimately informed the FDA’s recommendation to change the buprenorphine label to improve access to higher doses.

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