Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz

Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD, MPH is Department Chair and Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Rodriguez-Diaz is a native of Puerto Rico, a Spanish-speaker, and an experienced bilingual-bicultural researcher with a background in community health and expertise in HIV socio-behavioral research among Hispanic/Latino populations. In the last 15 years, Dr. Rodriguez-Diaz has developed collaborations with community-based organizations (CBOs), primary health care services, and governmental agencies that have provided to implement at least 13 funded projects. These projects include NIH-funded HIV studies to develop and test HIV prevention and care interventions with Latino adolescents and Latino sexual minority men. He has led recent research on HIV among sexual and gender minority groups and incarcerated populations in Puerto Rico. He is currently conducting research to improve access to PrEP for justice-involved Latino populations. He is also leading several implementation science projects to increase PrEP uptake among Latinxs in the Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.  Building on his training in community health education, Dr. Rodriguez-Diaz is currently collaborating on several translational and intervention studies to reduce health inequity, particularly among populations at disproportional risk for HIV infection or disease progression.