Biography

Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, professor in and chair of the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. His work focuses on intervention research and health promotion using authentic, innovative, and sound approaches to community engagement, community-based participatory research (CBPR), community development, and empowerment. His research explores sexual health, health disparities, and immigration policy. Dr. Rhodes has extensive experience working with Latino communities and other communities of color; persons with HIV; gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM); and transgender persons. He has develop and tested more than 10 HIV prevention studies that have been found efficacious. He has >160 published and in-press peer-reviewed papers and >30 book chapters, most of which detail and describe research using community-engaged approaches. He also edited a book entitled: Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement (Springer 2014) and is currently co-editing a book on Latina/o health with Dr. Airín Martínez (Arizona State University) to be published by Springer 2018.