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Nallely Mora

Research Assistant Professor, Program Director, Master of Public Health

Nallely Mora, MD, MPH, PMP, is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. Her academic and practice-based research focuses on cross-collaborative clinical and population-level initiatives to improve patient outcomes, advance population health, and reduce health disparities. She specializes in community-based participatory research and health equity, applying implementation science and evaluation methods to design, adapt, and sustain evidence-based interventions across diverse community and healthcare settings. 

Education

  • Bachelor's degree, Instituto Thomas Jefferson, Estado de Mexico
  • MD, Anáhuac University
  • Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Residency Program, Universidad La Salle, A.C. 
  • Fellowship in Rhinology and Sinus Surgery, American British Cowdray Hospital, Mexico City
  • MPH in Epidemiology and Statistics, Loyola University Chicago

What's it like to teach at Parkinson?

Teaching at Parkinson allows me to provide students with the intellectual tools to understand the array of social issues that intersect with health and well-being. As a diversity scholar, I want my students to understand and appreciate that individuals are part of social and cultural environments, and thus I stress the importance of understanding individual behaviors in a cultural and social context. My goal is for students to gain diverse perspectives and expand their worldviews in these arenas, to help them become critical thinkers.

What does your department's focus mean to you?

An important part of public health is to implement translational research at a community level to prevent chronic conditions that are a high burden to society, especially in under-resourced settings, locally and globally. Social inequalities and inequities exist around the world in many settings that shape health in different ways for individuals with the same conditions.

Why is this area of study important at this point in time?

Bringing evidence-based medicine to practice in real world and adapting it to specific local and cultural settings will help make a difference and achieve equity in health care.

Publications

  • Morrato, E. H., Bloom, M., Thomas, M., Rivera, M., & Mora, N. (2026). Building implementation science capacity: Adaptation of I-Corps™@ NCATS training for rapid fit-to-context discovery and designing for scale-up and sustainability. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 10(1), e56.
  • Khatib, R., Shields, M., Ozoani, O., Guzman, I., Glowacki, N., Ross, K.M., Mora, N., Lauffenburger, J. and Gordon, M., 2026. Feasibility of Implementing a Clinical Integration Package to Support Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study. Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes, p.e012252.
  • Khatib R, Guzman I, Glowacki N, Lauffenburger JC, Anderson M, Mora N. Adopting self-measured blood pressure monitoring in underserved primary care settings: a qualitative study using customer discovery and value proposition principles. BMC Prim Care. 2025 Oct 6;26(1):304. doi: 10.1186/s12875-025-03019-1. PMID: 41053548; PMCID: PMC12502478.
  • Mora N, Mehall M, Lennox LA, Pincus HA, Charron D, Morrato EH. A National Unmet Needs Assessment for CTSA-affiliated Electronic Health Record Data Networks: A Customer Discovery Approach.  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2024;8(1): e137. doi:10.1017/cts.2024.609
  • Smith, M.Y., Morrato, E.H., Mora, N. et al. The Reporting Recommendations Intended for Pharmaceutical Risk Minimization Evaluation Studies: Standards for Reporting of Implementation Studies Extension (RIMES-SE). Drug Saf (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-024-01417-5
  • Mora N, Arvanitakis Z, Thomas M, Kramer H, Morrato EH, Markossian TW. Applying Customer Discovery Method to a Chronic Disease Self-Management Mobile App: Qualitative Study. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Nov 13;7:e50334. doi: 10.2196/50334. PMID: 37955947; PMCID: PMC10682919.
  • Morrato EH, Lennox LA, Dearing JW, Coughlan AT, Gano ES, McFadden D, Mora N, Pincus HA, Firestein GS, Toto R, Reis SE. The Evolve to Next-Gen ACT Network: An evolving open-access, real-world data resource primed for real-world evidence research across the Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium. J Clin Transl Sci. 2023 Sep 29;7(1):e224. doi: 10.1017/cts.2023.617. PMID: 38028333; PMCID: PMC10643916
  • Balanean Alexandrina and Mora Nallely. The Feminization of HIV: A Retrospective Demographic and Health Surveys Study of Women’s Empowerment Factors in Southern Africa.The International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society, 2021: 11 (2): 19-40. doi:10.18848/2156-8960/CGP/v11i02/19-40.
  • Family-based lifestyle interventions: What makes them successful? A systematic literature review. Arnason, A; Langarica, N; Dugas, LR; Mora, N; Luke, A; Markossian, T Preventive medicine reports 2020 ;21
  • A Synthesis of Hepatitis C prevalence estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2000-2013 Mora,N.; Adams,W. H.; Kliethermes,S.; Dugas,L.; Balasubramanian,N.; Sandhu,J.; Nde,H.; Small,C.; Jose,J.; Scaglione,S.; Layden,J. E. BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 ;16(1):283-016-1584-1
  • High Frequency of Active HCV Infection Among Seropositive Cases in West Africa and Evidence for Multiple Transmission Pathways Layden,J. E.; Phillips,R. O.; Owusu-Ofori,S.; Sarfo,F. S.; Kliethermes,S.; Mora,N.; Owusu,D.; Nelson,K.; Opare-Sem,O.; Dugas,L.; Luke,A.; Shoham,D.; Forbi,J. C.; Khudyakov,Y. E.; Cooper,R. S. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2015 ;60(7):1033-1041
  • Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Frequent Opportunities for Exposure to Hepatitis C Virus in Ghana Forbi,J. C.; Layden,J. E.; Phillips,R. O.; Mora,N.; Xia,G. L.; Campo,D. S.; Purdy,M. A.; Dimitrova,Z. E.; Owusu,D. O.; Punkova,L. T.; Skums,P.; Owusu-Ofori,S.; Sarfo,F. S.; Vaughan,G.; Roh,H.; Opare-Sem,O. K.; Cooper,R. S.; Khudyakov,Y. E. PLoS ONE 2015 ;10(12):e0145530
  • Bisphenol A (BPA) Found in Humans and Water in Three Geographic Regions with Distinctly Different Levels of Economic Development Karalius,V. P.; Harbison,J. E.; Plange-Rhule,J.; van Breemen,R. B.; Li,G.; Huang,K.; Durazo-Arvizu,R. A.; Mora,N.; Dugas,L. R.; Vail,L.; Tuchman,N. C.; Forrester,T.; Luke,A. Environmental health insights 2014 ;8:1-3 11.
  • 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Supplementation and BMI change: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Nallely Mora JOURNAL OF OBESITY WEIGHT LOSS THER 2013 ;3(4):181 10.
  • Curvature inversion technique: a novel Tuboplastic technique for Patulous Eustachian tube--a preliminary report Nallely Mora OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD AND NECK SURGERY 2011 ;145(3):446-51 Classification System for Results in Eustachian Tube Surgery Nallely Mora Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2008 ;139(2S1):P74
  • Inferior Turbinate debriding technique: ten year results. Nallely Mora Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2008 ;138:170-175