Dr. Gustavo G. Cortina Rodríguez is a prevention specialist and researcher in public health. He completed his Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Psychology, a Master’s in Communication and Health, and a PhD in Public Health with a focus on global health, risk behaviors, and public policy. He is a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society for Public Health. He has been a spokesperson on public health issues such as: road safety, use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, suicide, health disparities, and struggles for social justice and civil rights.
He is currently the Director of the Quality of Life Office at UPRM, Title IX Coordinator and collaborates as a part-time professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He is the president and founder of Humanization in Health. It carries out an education crusade on the topics of anxiety and mental health, suicide, accessibility to health services, bullying, sexual violence, compassion. among others.
Professor José B. “J.B.” Negrón is a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology and Public Health and a Health Psychologist. He is an expert researcher in qualitative methods applied to health. It has several scientific publications. He is part of the adherence research group of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR for its acronym in English) and is a qualitative methodologist of the international working group on Critical Results in Records and Longitudinal Studies of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT).
He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at Universities in Spain and Puerto Rico, and is in the preparation of his first book “Guide for the Puerto Rican with Fibromyalgia.”
Fabiola Cruz López has a master’s degree in Public Health with a specialty in Epidemiology. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Microbiology and Medical Zoology. His research focus is molecular epidemiology.
Dr. Axel Ramos Lucca holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He is Professor at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences of Ponce Health Sciences University, where he is also Coordinator of the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning Neurosciences. In addition, he is part of the Medical School of the Damas Hospital in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Since 2017, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, where he teaches courses in the Master’s Program in Health Psychology.
He is one of the clinical supervisors of the Clinical Psychology Services Program at the Damas Hospital in Ponce (Internship Program accredited by the American Psychological Association). He has served as a researcher and co-investigator in qualitative and quantitative studies related to various aspects of the control and prevention of chronic diseases.
Dr. Alberto Rodríguez Rivera is a Graduate in Comprehensive General Medicine from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).
Undergraduate student Carlos L. Malavé Solares, is a student at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) and is enrolled in the Department of Mathematical Sciences – Computer Science. He has worked on various research projects such as analytical data processing in the SAFERSIM laboratory for the Department of Civil Engineering at UPRM, development of virtual environments for virtual reality systems and development of methodologies to detect theft of aircraft identities.
His interests are strongly related to the area of computing such as cybersecurity, computer security, data mining, artificial intelligence and computer graphics.
Undergraduate student Cesar A. Manrique Pizarro, is a student at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) and studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Computer Engineering.
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