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S Raquel Ramos
S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC
Yale School of Nursing - Associate Professor
Email: raquel.ramos@yale.edu
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University
PhD, Nursing - Informatics Specialization, Columbia University
MS, Family Nurse Practitioner, Purdue University
MBA, Management, Purdue University
BS, Nursing, Purdue University
Research Interests
Persons living with HIV/AIDS, emerging adult MSM, informatics strategies, user-centric design, informed decision-making, technology utilization
BIO
S. Raquel Ramos is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over a decade of direct patient-care nursing experience.  This includes medical and cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization lab, intermediate cardiac care, long-term care, LGBT community health, and clinical research nursing. She is a certified HIV testing counselor.

Dr. Ramos’ program of research focuses on technology utilization to facilitate informed decision making for PLWH and those at risk of HIV.  As part of her dissertation, user-centric techniques facilitated the design of a user interface to help patients at a HIV clinic make more informed decisions about consenting to electronically share their health records.  As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ramos was awarded a NIH administrative supplemental grant and traveled to Ghana to explore how literacy and numeracy influenced the decision-making abilities of Ghanaian caregivers of children living with HIV. Recently, she was awarded NIH pilot funding through the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University to design and test an intervention with young adult MSM interested in HIV self-testing.
Projects
Principal Investigator, A Multi-Level Integrated Strategy to Optimize PrEP Adherence for Black MSM and Accelerate Implementation at Scale. Active
Principal Investigator, LEveraging A viRtual eNvironment (LEARN) to Enhance Prevention of HIV-related Comorbidities in At-risk Minority MSM. Active
Principal Investigator, Mitigating Mental Health Effects of anti-LGBTQ Structural Forces with Artificial-Intelligence. Active
Principal Investigator, Theoretically Informed Behavioral Intervention to Enhance QOL and Prevent HIV-related Comorbidities in Ethnic and Racial Sexual Minority Men. Active
Principal Investigator, Examination of Autonomy Support on PrEP Use in Black MSM: A Quantitative Analysis. Completed
Principal Investigator, HOTIE Study: HIV Oral Testing Infographic Experiment. Completed
Publications

Recent

Ramos SR, Reynolds H, Johnson C, Melkus G, Kershaw T, Thayer J, Vorderstrasse A (2024).
Perceptions on HIV-related comorbidities and usability of a virtual environment as CVD prevention education in sexual minority men with HIV: Formative phases of a pilot RCT
Journal of Medical Internet Research. doi: 10.2196/57351. PMCID: PMC11377913.

Ramos SR, Kang B, Jeon S, Fraser M, Kershaw T, Boutjdir M (2024).
Chronic illness perceptions and cardiovascular disease risk behaviors in Black and Latinx sexual minority men with HIV: A cross-sectional analysis
Nursing Reports, 14 (3), 1922-1936. doi: 10.3390/nursrep14030143. PMCID: PMC11348044.

Goh HQ, Nelson LE, Teo WZ, Aidoo-Frimpong G, Ramos SR, Shorey S (2024).
Perspectives and thoughts of pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV receiving peer support: A mixed studies systematic review
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80 (7), 2715-2727. doi: 10.1111/jan.16014.

Bond KT, Chen WT, Crespo-Fierro M, Randolph S, Ramos SR (2024).
Ending the HIV epidemic: Disrupting inequities through HIV research centered on women and girls
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 35 (3), 173-174. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000475.

Boyd DT, Ramos SR, Maragh-Bass AC, Dyer TV, Zigah EY, Abu-Ba'are GR (2024).
Influence of families and other adult support on HIV prevention outcomes among Black men who have sex with men
BMC Public Health, 24 (1), 822. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18171-z. PMCID: PMC10941365.

Selected Press