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Rogério M. Pinto
Assistant Professor of Social Work
BS, Federal University, Minas Gerais, Brazil;
MSW, Yeshiva University;
PhD, Columbia University
E-mail: rmp98@columbia.edu
Telephone: (212) 851-2227
Office: Room 806
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Bio:
Dr. Rogério M. Pinto is a Brazilian-American psychiatric social worker with extensive
clinical and community work with racial and ethnic minority populations. After receiving his doctoral degree in social work from Columbia University, Dr. Pinto joined a three-year NIMH-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Pinto specializes in community-based participatory HIV prevention research, and has done most of his teaching and research in the United States and Brazil. In 2007, Dr. Pinto was awarded from NIMH a Mentored Research Development Award (K01) to examine factors that facilitate researchers’ collaborations with HIV service providers, and to develop evidence-based models of collaboration that can be tested and replicated. In addition, Dr. Pinto is conducting several other research projects, both in Brazil and New York, to further study the role of providers in HIV-prevention research and factors that influence a engagement and retention of researchers and their community-based collaborators in health-related research. Dr. Pinto’s research has been funded by NIMH, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, the International Association of School of Social Work, and a Columbia University Diversity Initiative Research Fellowship.
Dr. Pinto has had a decade of social work practice experience with immigrants and ethnic and racial minority individuals, groups, and families living in New York City. He has also worked with community representatives in community organizations, community-wide needs and resources assessments, program evaluations, and in capacity building of community-based organizations. As a clinical social worker, Dr. Pinto helped to implement an HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program for Latino clients, and provided bi-lingual mental health services to youth, adults and families, and provided concrete and clinical services to mentally retarded clients and their families in a low-income community. Dr. Pinto’s community work includes conducting community-wide substance abuse prevention needs and resources assessments, and supervision and implementation of a five-session curriculum on substance abuse prevention for parents and their adolescent children in several agencies in Queens County, NY. Dr. Pinto also implemented and monitored an HIV prevention program for adolescents in two public schools in the Bronx. He developed HIV, violence, and substance abuse prevention curricula, and recruited and trained inner-city adolescent HIV/AIDS peer educators.
Research Interests:
- Clinical practice with immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities
- HIV prevention practice and research
- Research on health-related social interventions
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Collaborative HIV research with Community-based Organizations
- Mixed methods in research
Current Projects:
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Promoting Community Collaboration in HIV Research. Funded by the NIMH, the goal of this study is to identify factors that influence research collaboration and to test a model of collaboration among service providers.
- Promoting community collaboration in scientific research. The study's goal is to define specific mechanisms involved in the development of community partnerships for research. It is a Research Fellowship awarded by the Columbia University Diversity Program.
- Studying a community-focused model of disease prevention in Brazil. The pilot study examines community-focused health service delivered by social work paraprofessionals in Brazil. Funded by the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
Recent Publications:
Journal Articles
Pinto, R. M., McKay, M. M. & Escobar, C. (in press) ‘“You've gotta know the community”: Minority women make recommendations about community-focused health research.’ Women and Health.
Dworkin, S. L., Pinto, R. M., Hunter, J., Rapkin, B., Remien, R. (in press) “Keeping the Spirit of Community Partnerships Alive in the Scale Up of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Critical Reflections on the Roll Out of DEBI (Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions).” American Journal of Community Psychology.
Pinto, R. M., McKay, M. M., Wilson, M. M., Phillips, M. L. A., Baptiste, D., Bell, C., Madison, S. M., & Paikoff, R. L. (in press). Correlates of participation in a family-based HIV prevention program: Exploring African American women’s motivations and understanding of the program. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
Pinto, R. M., McKay, M. M., Baptiste, D., Bell, C. C., Madison-Boyd, S., Paikoff, R. L., Wilson, M., Phillips, D. (2007). Motivators and barriers to participation of ethnic minority families in a family-based HIV prevention program. Social Work in Mental Health,5, 187-201.
Kirshenbaum, S., Pinto, R. M., Correale, J., Remien, R. H., Goldstein, R. B., Catz, S. L., Johnson, M. O., Morin, S. F., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., & Ehrhardt, A. A. (in press). “Opening Up Windows When Participants Keep Closing Doors”: Key Elements in Engaging HIV-Positive Individuals in Prevention Interventions.” Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 6, 5-28.
Pinto, R. M, Schmidt, C. N. T., Rodriguez, P. S. O., and Solano, R. (2007). Using
Principles of Community Participatory Research: Groundwork for collaboration in Brazil.” International Social Work, 50, 53-65.
Remien, R., Bastos, F. I., Terto Jr., V., Raxach, J. C., Pinto, R. M., Parker, R. G., Berkman, A. & Hacker, M. (2007). “Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a context of universal access, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” AIDS Care, 19, 740-48.
Melendez, R., & Pinto, R. M. (2007). “It’s really a hard life:” Safety, gender and HIV risk among male-to-female transgender persons. Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention & Care, 3, 233-245.
Pinto, R. M., McKay, M. M., & CHAMP Collaborative Board. (2006). A mixed method analysis of African American women’s attendance at an HIV prevention intervention. Journal of Community Psychology, 34, 601-616.
Pinto, R. M. (2006). Using social network interventions to improve mentally ill clients' well-being. Clinical Social Work Journal, 34, 83-100.
Pinto, R. M. & McKay, M. M. (2006). Lessons learned from African American women about participation in a family-based HIV prevention program. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 87, 285-292.
Last updated December 03, 2007. |
