Hidalgo briefed journalists in July 2024: How to Cover the “Summer Wave” of COVID-19. 

Bertha Hidalgo, an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Epidemiology, holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses health disparities related to COVID-19, cardiometabolic diseases, and science communication, with a special focus on Latino populations and genomics.

Hidalgo has a highly productive record of peer-reviewed research in relevant research areas with publications as lead or co-lead author in high-impact journals including Nature, Scientific Reports, Diabetes, American Journal of Public Health, with over 100 publications in total as lead, co-author or senior author. She has attained research funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and internal funding from UAB. Dr. Hidalgo is the past chair of the Minority Affairs committee and currently on the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology, as well as a member on the NHLBI Board of External Experts. Dr. Hidalgo is also recipient of the 2019 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Early Career Achievement Award. Most recently,

Hidalgo was awarded funding for the American Heart Association Institute for Cardiovascular Precision Medicine grant opportunity to increase prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in millennial women within underrepresented ethnic and racial groups, and principal investigator of an NIH-funded study to understand the epigenetic signatures of risk for preeclampsia.