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HIV DISPARITIES: REDUCING RISK AND DEVELOPING
COMMUNITIES THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Featuring Dr. Scott Rhodes
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy
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April 29, 2016 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | 112 HPER
ABOUT DR. RHODES
Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, CHES, is a public health
scientist, whose research focuses on the integration of
community development and health promotion and
disease prevention interventions in both rural and urban
communities. Specifically, his research explores sexual
health; HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD)
prevention; and health disparities among vulnerable
communities, including substance use and obesity. Dr.
Rhodes has extensive experience working with Latino
communities; urban African American adolescents;
persons living with HIV and AIDS; men of color; selfidentified gay and bisexual men; and men who have sex
with men (MSM).
Dr. Rhodes has experience in quantitative and qualitative
data collection and analysis techniques; the design,
implementation, and evaluation of prevention
interventions, community capacity development, and
environmental and policy change; community-based
participatory research (CBPR); the application of
behavioral theory; photovoice as a methodology of
participatory action research (PAR); lay health advisor
approaches; the exploration of sociocultural
determinants of health; and internet research, including
data collection, intervention delivery, and evaluation.
Sponsored by the Midlands Sexual Health Research
Collaborative with the support of the College of
Education and Office of Research and Creative
Activity