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Robert Paulino-Ramírez, MSc, MPH, DTM&H (he/him/his)

Principal Investigator
Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Dominican Republic

Dr. Robert Paulino-Ramirez is Professor of the Chair of Tropical Medicine and Global Health and Medical Virology at the School of Medicine of the Universidad Iberoamericana-UNIBE, and Clinical Associate Professor at Michigan State University (MSU). Principal Investigator and founder director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine & Global Health of UNIBE.

Senior researcher of the National Health Research Career, and Researcher of the Year in the Health category of the National Research Award (2018). He received the Young Investigator Award from the Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases (API) (2021). He was Scientific Director of the COVID-19 Emergency and Health Management Committee. Doctor of Medicine from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), postgraduate training in Molecular Microbiology from Michigan State University (MSU), and fellowship in Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS from Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, Weil-Cornell Medical College. Master in Science, Public Health and Epidemiology from Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Emerging Viruses and High risk Unit management Specialist from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in London, United Kingdom, and Master in Higher Education and Management from the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo.

Dr. Paulino-Ramírez has been principal investigator in numerous epidemiological and clinical studies studying HIV/AIDS and other STIs in vulnerable populations. He was the principal investigator of the Dominican Genomics project and carried out multiple investigations on SARS-CoV-2 circulating in the DR.

He is a member of the Dominican Academy of Medicine, the American Virology Society, the International AIDS Society, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the National Geographic Society, and the American Association of HIV Specialists.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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