Billy Caceres

Dr. Billy A. Caceres, PhD, FAHA, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing. His research employs biobehavioral approaches to explore social determinants of cardiovascular and sleep health in marginalized populations, particularly sexual and gender minority (SGM) adults.

His recent work utilizes data science and mobile health (mHealth) technologies to study discrimination's impact on physiological outcomes like blood pressure and sleep duration. Key methods include actigraphy, ecological momentary assessment, and unsupervised machine learning for phenotyping health behaviors.

• Recipient of NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Early-Stage Investigator Award (2020)
• Fellow of the American Heart Association, American Academy of Nursing, and New York Academy of Medicine

Current projects focus on precision interventions for Black and Latinx SGM adults, leveraging consumer sleep technology to map day-to-day discrimination experiences to sleep health profiles. He also investigates structural determinants like nondiscrimination laws and their influence on 30-year CVD risk.