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The Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO) is a collaboration between health disparities researchers at the University of Miami and Florida International University. CLaRO focuses on substance abuse, violence/trauma, and HIV/AIDS (SAVA) syndemic conditions affecting vulnerable Latino populations, including seasonal farmworkers, sexual/gender minorities, and youth.

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Audrey Harkness – Profile

Co-Creating Research with Latino Sexual Minority Men to Promote HIV Health Equity As far back as...

Cynthia Lebron – Profile

Promoting Health and Wellness in Latino Communities When she was completing her B.S. in health...

Yannine Estrada – Profile

Preventing drug use and sexual risk behaviors and promoting wellness among Latinx adolescents...

Mariano Kanamori – Profile

Engaging Social Networks to Prevent HIV in Latinx Communities In a shantytown built perilously...

CLaRO advances the aims of El Centro’s Measures Library, which enhances capacity for research with non-English speaking participants by collecting measures with Spanish translations. By facilitating access to translated measures we aim to encourage investigators to include non-English speaking participants in their studies

The CLaRO Training Institute provides early career investigators with research experience and increases their skills to develop and submit NIH research grant applications.  Topics  include: NIMHD’s health disparities research framework, etiology of health disparities in Latino populations, & grantsmanship.

NIMHD Director’s Seminar: Willy Prado, PhD

Guillermo (Willy) Prado, PhD, presented his work at the NIMHD Director’s Seminar Series, which highlights prominent researchers who are advancing the science of minority health and health disparities. Dr. Prado serves as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Dean of...

Dr. Audrey Harkness Research Update

Dr. Audrey Harkness, Principal Investigator in CLaRO's first cohort of Pilot Studies, was recently named Principal Investigator of a study within a National Institutes of Health P30 grant. SOMOS Alianza: Developing a Strategic Alliance across Three HIV Epicenters to...

Dr. Cynthia Lebron Receives NIH K01 Award

CLaRO researcher Cynthia Lebron was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health K01 grant  to develop and pilot the feasibility of a social media-based, bilingual, multigenerational entertainment education intervention for primiparous Hispanic pregnant women and...

Dr. Daniel E. Jimenez Awarded Tenure

We are pleased to announce that Daniel E. Jimenez, PhD, a Principal Investigator in CLaRO's first cohort of Pilot Studies, has recently been awarded tenure at the University of Miami.  The title of Dr. Jimenez's CLaRO Pilot Study was "Preventing Cardiometabolic...

Mario De La Rosa elected to Florida Academy of Sciences

We are proud to announce that Dr. Mario De La Rosa has been elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). The induction will take place during the Annual Meeting of the Academy to be held in Orlando on Friday and Saturday, November 5...

A Mentoring Match Made in … the Pandemic?

Second-year PhD student Maria Jose Baeza Robba (Article originally published on the University of Miami, School of Nursing and Health Studies website: https://www.sonhs.miami.edu/research/featured-research/a-mentoring-match-made-in-the-pandemic/index.html)Second-year...

Gay8 (Gay Ocho)

Gay8  (Gay Ocho), Miami, FL Gay8 is the largest Latinx LGBT event in the United States, drawing some 80,000 people annually. Held each February on the famous "Calle Ocho" of Miami's Little Havana, the theme of this year's Gay8 was "Libertad" (Freedom). The day-long...

CLaRO Training Institute – January 2022

CLaRO's Investigator Development Core hosted a Training Institute on January 11, 2022.  This Training Institute was titled “Latino Health Disparities Research Training Institute.” Due to ongoing concerns with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, this Training Institute...

Fighting COVID-19 Disparities: CLaRO joins NIH’s Community Engagement Alliance

By Robin Shear Article originally published in Spring 2021 edition of Heartbeat. Heartbeat magazine is the official alumni publication of the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies. The ray of hope COVID-19 vaccines represent has been tempered by...

Implementation Science Symposium

Implementation Science Symposium CLaRO hosted a virtual Implementation Science Symposium on Monday, May 24th, 2021 from 12:30-5:00 pm. The symposium featured experts in implementation science and health disparities, including Dr. Gregory Aarons (UC San Diego), Dr....