Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; and The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health
Rodrigo Aguayo-Romero (they/them) obtained their doctoral degree in the Clinical/Community Psychology program at George Washington University. They are completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transgender Health Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with affiliations at Harvard Medical School and the Fenway Institute. Their research focuses on risk behaviors and health disparities faced by gender, sexual, ethno-racial, and socioeconomically disadvantaged minorities impacted by HIV and AIDS. Their research examines health disparities impacting transgender people of color and Latino MSM using intersectionality and syndemics frameworks.
Representative Publications
- Parchem, B., Aguayo-Romero, R.A., Calabrese, S.K., Poppen, P.J., & Zea, M.C. (2020). Perceptions of power and sexual pleasure associated with sexual behaviour profiles among Latino sexual minority men. Culture, Health, and Sexuality.
- Barnett, A.P., del Rio-Gonzalez,A.M., Parchem, B., Pinho, V., Aguayo-Romero, R.A., Nakamura, N., Calabrese, S.K., Poppen, P.J., & Zea, M.C. (2019). Content analysis of psychological research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people of color in the United States: 1969 – 2018. American Psychologist, 74(8), 898-911.
- Aguayo-Romero RA, Alizaga NM, & Glickman C (2016, April).The dynamics of intersectionality and gender affirmation on HIV risk among transgender IPV survivors. Psychology and AIDS Exchange Newsletter.
- Aguayo-Romero RA, Reisen CA, Zea MC, Bianchi F, & Poppen PJ (2015). Gender affirmation and body modification among transgender persons in Bogotá, Colombia. International Journal of Transgenderism, 16(2), 103-15.
- Reisen C, Zea MC, Bianchi F, Poppen PJ, del Río AM, Aguayo-Romero RA, Pérez C (2014). HIV testing among MSM in Bogotá, Colombia: The role of structural and individual characteristics. AIDS Education and Prevention, 26(4), 328-44.
Contact