Héctor Camilo Ruiz Sánchez- PhD MPH
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Connecticut
Héctor Camilo Ruiz Sánchez
- PhD MPH
- Professor (Assistant) at University of Connecticut
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Héctor Camilo Ruiz Sánchez holds a PhD in anthropology and a Master's degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh. He does research on HIV/AIDS, opioids addiction, migration, and masculinities in the Americas. He often incorporates community-based participatory research methods and the arts in his research projects.
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This article interconnects the history of Instituto Materno Infantil (IMI) – a component of the emblematic Hospital San Juan de Dios (HSJD) of Colombia – with that of its workers and with our participation through a collaborative ethnography filled by art and activism. IMI is one of the most important public hospitals of the country. It was closed...
In recent years, the Latino population has increased rapidly in areas with traditionally low concentration of Latinos. In these emerging communities, Latinos often live scattered, confronting social isolation and social services not tailored to serve their cultural and linguistic needs. Latinos’ invisibility in Pittsburgh is evidenced by the absenc...
The latest UNAIDS report on the global matter of HIV/AIDS (Dangerous Inequalities: World AIDS Day Report, 2022) states that more than 750,000 men acquired HIV in 2021 alone, and HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression gaps are often larger among men than women. The report also invites to do more research to understand the correlation between m...
Promotores or community health workers are trusted community members who offer information and support to marginalized groups in society. Latinx immigrants in new growth communities or emerging communities (areas with a small yet growing Latinx population) confront many challenges in their settling processes. De la Mano con la Salud was a community...
In my PhD dissertation, I show that HIV-positive heterosexual men and heroin users are often forced to bear the intensity of HIV and opioid addiction, respectively, in silence and without institutionalized care. I argue that the absence of support for these groups and the political blindness towards the suffering of these invisible populations make...
In recent years, the Latino population has increased rapidly in areas of the United States with traditionally low concentrations of Latinos. Latinos often live scattered within these emerging communities, forced to navigate social isolation and social services not tailored to serve their cultural and linguistic needs. Latinos' invisibility in Pitts...
Little documentation exists about male community health workers (promotores) networks. The experiences of promotores can provide input on how to attract, train, supervise and maintain male promotores in CHW programs. We present the experience and perspectives of promotores who participated in a male promotores network assisting Latino immigrant men...
Este artículo relaciona históricamente las transformaciones más signifi cativas del Instituto Materno Infantil (IMI) en su proceso de crisis, cierre y liquidación con las experiencias de sus trabajadoras conectando elementos vivenciales y teóricos que hablan del proceso de privatización de la salud con las experiencias de resistencia y dolor/sufrim...
La violencia del proceso privatizador evidencia una combinación de mecanismos materiales y simbólicos de disciplina y punición de los procesos sociales que insisten en la defensa de lo público. Estos mecanismos favorecen la acumulación flexible mediante la destrucción de las vidas individuales, sociales y políticas que representan las/os trabajador...
