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Adolfo G. Cuevas, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU’s School of Global Public Health and serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and Public Health. His research focuses on psychosocial stressors, discrimination, and their impact on health across lifespans, employing epidemiological, psychological, and biological approaches. He leads two NIH-funded projects totaling $4 million, examining discrimination’s role in biological dysregulation and obesity. Cuevas co-directs the BioSocial Research Initiative and contributes to the International Weight Control Registry and Afro-Latino Health working group. His work has been published in top journals like Annals of Internal Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and highlighted by media including Forbes and NPR.
Educationally, Cuevas earned a PhD and MS in Applied Psychology from Portland State University and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Notable awards include the National Minority Quality Forum’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health and Harvard’s Diversity Scholar Award. His research interests include obesity, psychosocial stress, and racial/ethnic disparities, with a focus on inflammation, gene expression, and social determinants of health.
Key grants include R01DK137805 (2024–2029) and R01DK137246 (2024–2029), exploring discrimination’s effects on allostatic load and obesity. He also serves as a Co-Investigator on projects addressing racial biases in healthcare and neurobiological racism impacts. Cuevas’s work emphasizes translational research to reduce health inequities through policy and community engagement.
