Amelie G Ramirez

Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she also is founding director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR). She also is the Dielmann Chair in Health Disparities Research and Community Outreach and the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Endowed Chair in Cancer Healthcare Disparities and Outreach at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She also is Co-Associate Director of the Cancer Prevention and Population Science program at the CTRC. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Ramirez has directed many research programs focused on human and organizational communication to reduce chronic disease and cancer health disparities affecting Hispanics/Latinos and other populations. In 2007, Dr. Ramirez was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and was named a Professor of Survivorship by Susan G. Komen For the Cure. She chairs the CDC's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee and Komen's National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council, and is a member of Komen's Scientific Advisory Board, Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade Scientific Advisory Board, the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Board of Directors and the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic Based Research for Health.