Carlos has more than 20 years of public health practitioner experience both at the local and national levels. Throughout his career, he has focused on the nexus between dissemination research and innovative public health programming, specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and linguistic minority populations. He has been mentored by many professionals and believes in the power or mentorship and fostering the next generation of public health professionals. Prior to embarking on his doctoral degree, he worked for 10 years on a national US federal agency Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) technical assistance grant to provide trainings and strategic technical assistance to Single State Agencies (including Caribbean territories and Tribes) on public health planning and implementation, capacity building, sustainability planning, and evaluation. He has also worked for the DeKalb County Board of Health, building community school partnerships with the Mayor’s Office of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and several nonprofits. In 2007, he was selected by Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve a four-year appointment on Director’s Council of Public Representatives (COPR) – and served under three NIH Directors. As a practitioner he has secured $2.5 million in various grants: HIV, tobacco control, substance abuse prevention, and adolescent programming. He has been contracted as an evaluator on various grants ($1.5 million) in Houston, Nashville, and Atlanta.
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