Dr. Miguel Munoz-Laboy has been working with youth and young adults on issues related to HIV and sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and alcohol-tobacco-and other drugs (ATOD) for more than 10 years. From 1992 to 1996, he worked with the University of Puerto Rico on community mobilization for health promotion initiatives among high school and college students in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico. From 1996-1998, he conducted community participatory-based research with African American and Latino high school students at the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, CT, and with young men and women in a peri-urban village in Kandy, Sri Lanka with the Center for International Community Health Studies. For his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Muñoz-Laboy conducted ethnographic research on bisexuality among young and adult Latino men. After completing his doctoral dissertation, he received a post-doctoral fellowship on HIV/AIDS research with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.

 Areas of expertise
young and adult Latino men; HIV and sexually transmitted infections; ethnographic research on HIV risk

Recent publications

Muñoz-Laboy M, Castellanos D Westacott R "Sexual risk behavior, viral load and perceptions of HIV transmission among homosexually active Latino men: an exploratory study." AIDS Care 17 (1) 33-45, 2005.

Muñoz-Laboy M, Dodge B "Bi-sexual practices: patterns, meanings, and implications for HIV/STI prevention among bisexually-active Latino men and their partners" The Journal of Bisexuality 5 (1) 81-100, 2005.

Muñoz-Laboy, M. & Parker, R. "Bisexualities, Sexual Cultures, and HIV Prevention Programs for Latino Men in New York City " AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men Ed. Feldman D Greenwood Press Westport, CT  In press