Biography

José A. Bauermeister, PhD, MPH, FSBM is the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing and Professor of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Bauermeister received his MPH and PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Bauermeister’s research program focuses on optimizing the acceptability, engagement, and user-centered design of HIV and infectious disease prevention strategies, including long-acting modalities. Using participatory and human-centered design approaches, his work examines how individual, interpersonal, and structural factors shape prevention decision-making, uptake, and persistence across key populations in the United States and globally, with the goal of supporting real-world implementation of biomedical prevention innovations. Dr. Bauermeister currently serves as Lead of the User Preferences Core for the Long-Acting/Extended Release Antiretroviral Resource Program (LEAP). Dr. Bauermeister serves on the NIH Advisory Council for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and is former Chair of the NIH Population and Public Health (PPAH) Study Section. A Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, he has authored more than 300 scientific publications and has led numerous federally funded studies advancing HIV prevention and behavioral well-being.