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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Associate Professor of Social Work
B.S., College of Human Services; M.S.W., M.S., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
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E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 851-1659
Office: Room 736
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Bio:
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos' research interests are related to the role of families in promoting Latino and African American adolescent health, with a special focus on preventing HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. Additional research interests include parent-adolescent communication, intervention research, HIV prevention, and alcohol and drug use. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has conducted research primarily in urban, resource-poor settings, such as the South Bronx, Harlem and Lower East Side communities of New York City. More recently, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has extended his focus to HIV-prevention among vulnerable populations in the Dominican Republic and in India.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has worked at a number of New York City based social service agencies serving Latino youths and their families. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos was employed at the Hetrick Martin Institute, a social service agency dedicated to meeting the unique needs of gay, lesbian, transgender, and questioning youths. In addition, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos was a national trainer and an Advisory Committee member for the National Association of Social Worker’s HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project. The goal of the HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project is to provide the necessary HIV and mental health practice skills for people working in social work, mental health, and substance abuse fields to enhance and promote culturally competent practice with individuals, families, and communities affected by HIV/AIDS. In this role, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos trained social workers around the country on how discrimination, stigma and other structural inequalities interact to create health disparities in vulnerability to HIV-infection and in access to HIV/AIDS treatment and services.
Research Interests:
- Latino & African American Youth and Sexual Risk Behavior
- Parent-Adolescent Communication
- Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Use
- Highly Active HIV Prevention
- Intervention Research
- Global Health
Current Projects:
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Books
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., & Dittus, P. (Eds). (in press). Parental monitoring of adolescents. New York: Columbia University Press.
Book Chapters
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., & Gallego, S. (in press). Latinos and HIV: A framework to develop evidence-based strategies. In C. C. Poindexter (Ed.), Social services and social action in the HIV pandemic: Principles, method, and populations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Journal Articles
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jacard, J., Dittus, P., Gonzalez, B., Bouris, A., & Banspach, S. (in press). The Linking Lives Health Education Program: A randomized clinical trial of a parent-based tobacco use prevention program for Latino and African American youth. American Journal of Public Health.
Soletti, A., Guilamo-Ramos, V., Burnette, D., Sharma, S., & Bouris, A. (in press). India-U.S. collaboration to prevent adolescent HIV-infection: The feasibility of a family-based HIV prevention intervention for rural Indian youth. Journal of International AIDS Society.
Guilamo-Ramos, V. (in press). Dominican and Puerto Rican mother-adolescent communication: Maternal self-disclosure and youth risk intentions. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., Jaccard, J., Lesesne, C., & Ballan, M. (in press). Familial and cultural influences on HIV-related sexual risk behaviors in Mexican, Puerto Rican and Dominican youth. AIDS Education and Prevention.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Dittus, P., Holloway, I., & Bouris, A. (in press). An integrated framework for adolescent cigarette smoking in middle school Latino youth. Youth and Society.
Padilla, M. B., Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., & Matiz Reyes, A. (in press). HIV/AIDS and tourism in the Caribbean: An ecological systems perspective. American Journal of Public Health.
Guilamo-Ramos, V. (2009). Maternal influence on adolescent self-esteem, ethnic pride and intentions to engage in risk behavior in Dominican and Puerto Rican youth. Prevention Science.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2009). Commentary on abstinence-plus programs for HIV infection prevention in high-income countries. Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., Jaccard, J., Lesesne, C., Gonzalez, B., & Kalogerogiannis, K. (2009). Family mediators of acculturation and adolescent sexual behavior among Latino youth. Journal of Primary Prevention.
Monographs
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Kalogerogiannis, K. (in press). Latinos and Latinas: An overview. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work. New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2010.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2009). Working with parents to promote healthy adolescent sexual development. The Prevention Researcher, 4, 7-11.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2009). Acción Mutua/Shared Action web-seminar on Latino youth: Preventing HIV infection. AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco, CA.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2008). Parent-Adolescent communication about sex in Latino families: A guide for practitioners. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Washington, DC.
Presentations
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Martinez, R., Gonzalez, B., Bouris, A., & Holloway, I. (2008). Reducing adolescent sexual risk behavior and vulnerability to HIV-infection in the Dominican Republic: A parent-based approach. Presented at XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2007). Parental influences on reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancy: Research findings and opportunities for new directions. What’s it going to take? Extending the research base to improve teen pregnancy prevention. Presented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.
Last updated
March 04, 2010
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