Ana María del Río-González, Derek Dangerfield II and Karen Collins join PCH faculty!
Ana María del Río-González earned her PhD in Applied Social Psychology in 2015 from The George Washington University. She is interested in understanding how multiple and interlocking identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender identity, and immigrant status) and the social processes associated with them (e.g., white supremacy, transphobia, and xenophobia) can shape health inequities. Her work on HIV prevention among Latina transgender women in the Washington DC metropolitan area has been funded by the Emory/DC CFAR Adelante program and CDC’s Minority AIDS/HIV Research Initiative. Dr. del Río-González received the Trans-Latinx DMV “Committed Ally Award” in 2021 and NIH’s “Sexual and Gender Minority Research – Early-Stage Investigator Award in 2022. Dr. Derek Dangerfield is a prevention scientist with expertise in latent variable modeling, qualitative methodology, and life course theoretical frameworks for sexual health promotion. His primary research promotes sexual health for Black gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men throughout the United States and has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research, and the NIH. Currently he is leading an NIH-sponsored multicomponent intervention to increase perceived HIV risk and PrEP initiation among Black sexual minority men. In the classroom, Dr. Dangerfield will examine concepts related to the role of misinformation and disinformation in U.S. sexual health disparities. Karen Kadela Collins, earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Saint Louis University in 2003. Over the past 20 years, she has immersed herself in academic research and practice across many disciplines, including social psychology and law, behavioral health, public health, and epidemiology. In September 2015, she joined George Washington University’s online Master of Public Health’s instructional team. She is currently a Course Director and Instructor for Planning and Implementing Health Promotion Programs and Fundamentals of Program Evaluation and is a Culminating Experience Advisor. Please join PCH in welcoming Drs. del Río-González, Dangerfield and Collins.