{"id":227878,"date":"2023-07-06T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=227878"},"modified":"2023-07-07T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:27:43","slug":"sph-to-welcome-carlos-rodriguez-diaz-as-chair-of-community-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2023\/sph-to-welcome-carlos-rodriguez-diaz-as-chair-of-community-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"SPH to Welcome Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz as Chair of Community Health Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin sphnews-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz standing with one hand in his pocket\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-424x636.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-755x1133.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-667x1000.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2023\/07\/gw_carlos_rodriguez-diaz_standing_2022-1-1200x1800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">All News<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSPH to Welcome Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz as Chair of Community Health Sciences\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Rodriguez-Diaz is currently professor and vice chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. He will join SPH on September 1.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">July 6, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/authors\/megan-jones\/\">Megan Jones<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carlos-rodriguez-diaz-b2146741\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz<\/a> recently accepted the role of new chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the School of Public Health. He will join the SPH community on September 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodriguez-Diaz is currently professor and vice chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (GWSPH). He is also director of GWSPH\u2019s Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health in the Caribbean and Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in a small town in Puerto Rico, Rodriguez-Diaz earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health degrees at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and worked as a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(23)00054-5\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">health educator<\/a> in the Puerto Rican prison system&nbsp;before completing his doctoral training in public health and community health education at Walden University in Minnesota. He returned to the UPR for post-graduate training in HIV and global health research in 2010, and subsequently joined the faculty there, working as an assistant professor at the UPR Graduate School of Public Health for six years before joining GW in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodriguez-Diaz&#8217;s 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 a number of funded projects aimed at improving HIV prevention services, including interventions to enhance continuity of care for&nbsp;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&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1047279720302672\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most cited studies<\/a>&nbsp;about COVID-19 infection and death risk among the US Latinx population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his teaching and research activities, Rodriguez-Diaz co-chairs the <a href=\"https:\/\/dccfar.gwu.edu\/latinaxo-sig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Latino\/a\/x Special Interest Group<\/a> at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research and sits on the Board of Directors of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NMAC<\/a>, a national organization fighting racial disparities in the HIV epidemic response. He also serves as president of Board of Directors of <a href=\"http:\/\/coaipr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coai, Inc.<\/a>, a community-based organization providing health services to LGBTQ populations in Puerto Rico, and as president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality<\/a>, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that Professor Rodriguez-Diaz will be joining us as chair of Community Health Sciences,&#8221; says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/sandro-galea\/\">Dean Sandro Galea<\/a>. &#8220;His focus on the&nbsp;social determinants of health, health equity, and community-based participatory research approaches put him on the leading edge of scholarship in the field. I am excited to work with him over the coming years as the department grows and thrives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz recently accepted the role of new chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the School of Public Health. He will join the SPH community on September 1. 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