Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPH
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

He has published two books: Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS (University of Illinois Press, 2011), and Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology (Oxford University Press, 2018). His work has been funded by both the National Institutes of Health and several foundations. He is currently editor-in-chief of Health Education and Behavior. His 2007 documentary, Tal Como Somos/Just As We Are, chronicles the lives of Latino gay men, transgender persons and people living with HIV/AIDS. It has been featured on PBS and as part of several international film festivals.

Before this role, Jesus served as director of the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. Prior to that, he chaired the department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health. His connection to UCSF dates to 1998-2001, when he was a visiting professor at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), a major center in the division he will now be leading.

• Unpacking Public Health Implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling on Race-Conscious Admissions.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2023 Bather JR, Furr-Holden D, Ramirez-Valles J, Goodman MS
• Inequity Within: A Call for Inclusion of Latina/o/x Scholars in Faculty and Leadership Ranks in Schools and Programs of Public Health.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2022 Ramirez-Valles J, Neubauer LC, Zambrana RE
• Racism Within: Special Journal Issue on Scholars of Color.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2021 Ramirez-Valles J
• Aging With HIV: Health Policy and Advocacy Priorities.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2021 Brennan-Ing M, Ramirez-Valles J, Tax A
• Public Health Has an Equity Problem: A Latinx's Voice.
  Frontiers in public health 2020 Ramirez-Valles J
• The COVID-19 Pandemic: Everything Old Is New Again in Public Health Education.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2020 Ramirez-Valles J, Breton E, Chae DH, Haardörfer R, Kuhns LM
• Fostering health equity research: Development and implementation of the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Chicago.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2019 Kim SJ, Ramirez-Valles J, Watson K, Allen-Mears P, Matthews A, Martinez E, Odoms-Young A, Daviglus M, Winn RA
• White Paper from a CTSA Workshop Series on Special and Underserved Populations: Enhancing Investigator Readiness to Conduct Research Involving LGBT Populations.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2018 Matthews AK, Rak K, Anderson E, Bostwick W, Ramirez-Valles J, Ruiz RA, Macapagal K, Watson KS, Jeremiah RD, Castillo A, Choure W
• "Anywhere but here": Querying spatial stigma as a social determinant of health among youth of color accessing LGBTQ services in Chicago's Boystown.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2018 Felner JK, Dudley TD, Ramirez-Valles J
• Global Citizen, Immigrant, Survivor, Activist, Gayby Boomer, Academic, and Editor: Dr. Sy and the History of AIDS Education and Prevention.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2018 Ramirez-Valles J
• The New HE&B Editorial Team.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2018 Ramirez-Valles J
• My Journey With Health Education & Behavior.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2017 Ramirez-Valles J
• Farewell.
  Health promotion practice 2017 Ramirez-Valles J
• Trends in HIV Risk, Testing, and Treatment among MSM in Chicago 2004-2014: Implications for HIV Elimination Planning.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2017 Morgan E, Skaathun B, Lancki N, Jimenez AD, Ramirez-Valles J, Bhatia R, Masiello-Schuette S, Benbow N, Prachand N, Schneider JA
• Burnout in HIV/AIDS Volunteers: A Socio-Cultural Analysis among Latino Gay, Bisexual Men, and Transgender People.
  Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 2017 Molina Y, Dirkes J, Ramirez-Valles J
• Sexual identity development: relationship with lifetime suicidal ideation in sexual minority women.
  Journal of clinical nursing 2016 Dirkes J, Hughes T, Ramirez-Valles J, Johnson T, Bostwick W
• HIV Prevalence and Awareness of Positive Serostatus Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women in Bogotá, Colombia.
  American journal of public health 2015 Zea MC, Reisen CA, del Río-González AM, Bianchi FT, Ramirez-Valles J, Poppen PJ
• GayBy Boomers' social support: exploring the connection between health and emotional and instrumental support in older gay men.
  Journal of gerontological social work 2014 Ramirez-Valles J, Dirkes J, Barrett HA
• Building our collective vision for health promotion practice.
  Health promotion practice 2014 Ramirez-Valles J
• Getting Involved: Exploring Latino GBT Volunteerism and Activism in AIDS and LGBT Organizations.
  Journal of gay & lesbian social services 2014 Ramirez-Valles J, Kuhns LM, Vázquez R, Benjamin GD
• Tal Como Somos/just as we are: an educational film to reduce stigma toward gay and bisexual men, transgender individuals, and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
  Journal of health communication 2013 Ramirez-Valles J, Kuhns LM, Manjarrez D
• Stigma towards PLWHA: the role of internalized homosexual stigma in Latino gay/bisexual male and transgender communities.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2013 Ramirez-Valles J, Molina Y, Dirkes J
• HIV/AIDS stigma: measurement and relationships to psycho-behavioral factors in Latino gay/bisexual men and transgender women.
  AIDS care 2013 Molina Y, Ramirez-Valles J
• Work stress and depression among direct support professionals: the role of work support and locus of control.
  Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 2010 Gray-Stanley JA, Muramatsu N, Heller T, Hughes S, Johnson TP, Ramirez-Valles J
• Navigating partnerships and addressing tough issues in promoting health among GLBTQ youth: an interview with Jesus Ramirez-Valles. Interview by Carmen J. Head .
  Health promotion practice 2010 Ramirez-Valles J
• Social integration and health: community involvement, stigmatized identities, and sexual risk in Latino sexual minorities.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2010 Ramirez-Valles J, Kuhns LM, Campbell RT, Diaz RM
• HIV infection, sexual risk behavior, and substance use among Latino gay and bisexual men and transgender persons.
  American journal of public health 2008 Ramirez-Valles J, Garcia D, Campbell RT, Diaz RM, Heckathorn DD
• "The priest obviously doesn't know that I'm gay": the religious and spiritual journeys of Latino gay men.
  Journal of homosexuality 2008 García DI, Gray-Stanley J, Ramirez-Valles J
• Researching special populations: retention of Latino gay and bisexual men and transgender persons in longitudinal health research.
  Health education research 2007 Kuhns LM, Vazquez R, Ramirez-Valles J
• The quest for effective HIV-prevention interventions for Latino gay men.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2007 Ramirez-Valles J
• From networks to populations: the development and application of respondent-driven sampling among IDUs and Latino gay men.
  AIDS and behavior 2005 Ramirez-Valles J, Heckathorn DD, Vázquez R, Diaz RM, Campbell RT
• Latinos' community involvement in HIV/AIDS: organizational and individual perspectives on volunteering.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2003 Ramirez-Valles J, Brown AU
• The protective effects of community involvement for HIV risk behavior: a conceptual framework.
  Health education research 2002 Ramirez-Valles J
• "I was not invited to be a [CHW] ... I asked to be one": motives for community mobilization among women community health workers in Mexico.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2001 Ramirez-Valles J
• Changing women: the narrative construction of personal change through community health work among women in Mexico.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 1999 Ramirez-Valles J
• Women, the welfare state, and their transnational dimension: the case of Mexico's community health worker programs.
  International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation 1999 Ramirez-Valles J
• Promoting health, promoting women: the construction of female and professional identities in the discourse of community health workers.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 1998 Ramirez-Valles J
• Sexual risk behavior among youth: modeling the influence of prosocial activities and socioeconomic factors.
  Journal of health and social behavior 1998 Ramirez-Valles J, Zimmerman MA, Newcomb MD
• An HIV/AIDS prevention project for Mexican homosexual men: an empowerment approach.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 1997 Zimmerman MA, Ramirez-Valles J, Suarez E, de la Rosa G, Castro MA
• The development of a measure of enculturation for Native American youth.
  American journal of community psychology 1996 Zimmerman MA, Ramirez-Valles J, Washienko KM, Walter B, Dyer S