Dr. Rodolfo R. Vega
Dr. Rodolfo R. Vega, born in Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, is a Senior Consultant at John
Snow, Inc. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin’s doctoral program in Community
Psychology, and a National Institute of Drug Abuse Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at the Center for Family Studies, University of Miami School of Medicine. He
has extensive experience in working with communities of color across the nation
in the areas of asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and mental health.
Dr. Vega has collaborated with community-based organizations
in translating research into practice, providing technical assistance in
service integration strategies, and developing evaluation designs. He was a
research associate in the National Inner-City Cooperative Asthma Study at
Albert Einstein University in the South Bronx, NY; a member of the Reach 2010
Diabetes Study in Lawrence, MA; and co-principal investigator of the
SAMHSA/CSAP Minority AIDS Initiative Cohort 1.
He led the development of the cost, outcome, and capacity
building evaluation as well as the cross-site survey and served as a consultant
to the SAMHSA/CSAP Minority AIDS Initiative Cohorts 2, 3, and 4.
Dr. Vega also was a Senior Evaluator for the Health
Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau’s Minority AIDS
Initiative funded programs. He assessed the impact evaluation of all 22
HRSA/HAB programs receiving funds from the MAI. Rodolfo also served as Senior
Technical Advisor in the JSI senior management team of the Centers for Disease
Control HIV/AIDS Program Evaluation and Monitoring System Technical Assistance
Project. As Senior Technical Advisor and Evaluator of a SAMHSA/CMHS Initiative,
he provided technical assistance to nine community based-organizations serving
the mental health needs of mostly Latino elderly. As part of a CDC capacity
building assistance program, he currently works with leaders in the Latino
community in the Midwest to get them involved
in the implementation of evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention services.
Dr. Vega currently serves as senior technical advisor for
The Leadership Campaign on AIDS, an initiative sponsored by the DHHS Office of
HIV/AIDS Programs. In that role, he is in charge of leading all technical
assistance and training activities geared towards providers of HIV/Services to
Hispanic-serving organizations. He is a member of the NIDA-sponsored Hispanic
Science Network Initiative. In this role he was one of the contributing authors
to the National Strategic Plan on Hispanic Drug Abuse Research. Most recently,
Dr. Vega collaborate with the Joslin Diabetes Center
as senior evaluator of their Diabetes and health literacy initiative with
Hispanics in Massachusetts.
