David Ray Garcia

David Garcia is a family nurse practitioner in the Nursing PhD program at NYU and his dissertation proposal focuses on secondary data analysis on young men who have sex with men, framed by the syndemics theory, to examine substance use, violence, and HIV/AIDS risk.  After a study abroad class at NYU London on HIV/AIDS, David became inspired by his potential contributions to this field of research.

Public health emergency preparedness and response also piqued his interest after being exposed to Hurricane Katrina, Super Storm Sandy, and recently COVID-19, which he hopes to relate to the study of HIV/AIDS. Inspired by the work of Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Dimetre Daskalakis, on making HIV prevention sex-positive, David continues his research on making progress on ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic

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