Diego Leal

Diego F. Leal is an associate professor in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated with the Binational Migration Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. 

 

Dr. Leal is broadly interested on the social network aspects of relational inequalities, particularly as they manifest in the emergence and evolution of international migration dynamics and minority health outcomes. On those two fronts, he is currently working on analyzing the enforced disappearance of international migrants and asylum seekers carried out by the U.S. government on U.S. soil and on the relationship between social networks and adolescent health behaviors, with a focus on depression and the use of nicotine products.

 

Dr. Leal uses a variety of methods, from interviews and focus groups to inferential network analysis and agent-based computational models. His work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Sociological Methods & Research, and several other outlets.

 

Among others, Dr. Leal currently is the Principal Investigator (jointly with Dr. James Thrasher) in a 5-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) 'R01' grant to study peer adolescent networks and nicotine products use in the U.S. and Mexico. Dr. Leal has been awarded over $2.9 million in research grants as a Principal Investigator.

 

For the most up-to-date information on Dr. Leal's research, please visit: www.diegoleal.info 

 

El doctor Diego F. Leal nació y creció en Bogotá, Colombia. Para más información en español sobre sus investigaciones, puedes contactarlo al correo: dflc@arizona.edu. o ir a su página web: www.diegoleal.info