Oscar Jiménez-Solomon, CPSP Doctoral Research Assistant

Oscar Jiménez-Solomon is a Pre-Doctoral Poverty Research Fellow at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy. As part of his doctoral research, he is examining how income poverty, material hardship, and psychological distress reinforce one another. Jiménez-Solomon is also Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, where he conducts a study to test the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a peer-led intervention to reduce financial hardship and suicide risk. His experience includes serving as Director of Economic Development at the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Officer of Research at the Mailman School of Public Health, International Consultant at the United Nations Population Fund, and Research Associate at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has co-authored peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, reports, and training manuals,  in the United States and Latin America. Jiménez-Solomon holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University.