Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Jesus Ramirez-Valles is Professor and Director of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. His research interests include health education and health promotion; community organizing; sociology of health, race, gender, sexual orientation; HIV/AIDS; and aging and health. A former Associate Editor for Health Education & Behavior, Dr. Ramirez-Valles is the Editor-in-Chief of Health Promotion Practice. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others, and has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. He is the author (with J. Compañeros) of the award-winning Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS (University of Illinois Press, 2011).