Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, is chair and professor of Population Health Sciences and director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio. She has 30 years of experience conducting behavioral and communications projects to reduce cancer, increase screening rates and clinical trial participation, prove the efficacy of patient navigation for cancer patients, prevent tobacco use, and improve healthy lifestyles among U.S. Latinos.

Dr. Ramirez currently directs the Salud America! national multimedia program to empower its vast network of 300,000 community leaders to drive healthy policy and system changes for Latino families. Dr. Ramirez also conducts breast cancer research on quality of life and survivorship issues, and directs Quitxt, a bilingual tobacco-cessation service for young Latino adults.