Catalina Ramirez serves as Research Director for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Project Director and Co-Investigator on a number of NIH-funded studies, including the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study, the largest and longest-running cohort of people living with HIV. Her research explores how features of the social and built environment create and perpetuate HIV-related health disparities, with a special focus on women. Prior to joining UNC in 2011, she served as a Senior Associate with FHI360’s Global Health, Population and Nutrition program and, before that, as a Health Policy Fellow with RTI International’s Social Policy, Health, and Economics Research Unit.
