Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD, MPHE, MCHES

Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz is professor and chair of community health sciences. His professional work focuses on engaging the social determinants of health to address health inequities among populations made vulnerable by factors such as incarceration status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and HIV status. He conducts community-based participatory research in Puerto Rico, the US, and the Caribbean region and has several funded projects to improve HIV prevention services, including interventions to enhance continuity of care for justice-involved people and primary care for Latinx and transgender populations. Rodriguez-Diaz has also conducted pandemic-related research; he is the first author of one of the most cited studies about COVID-19 infection and death risk among the US Latinx population.

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Rodriguez-Diaz sits on the Board of Directors of NMAC, a national organization fighting racial disparities in the HIV epidemic response. He also serves as president of Board of Directors of Coai, Inc., a community-based organization providing health services to LGBTQ populations in Puerto Rico, and as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, an international organization dedicated to advancing knowledge about sexuality.