Pedro Alonso Serrano, MPH, CPH

Pedro A. Serrano, MPH, CPH is a dedicated public health leader, researcher, and educator focused on advancing health equity for the Latine LGBTQ+ community and other sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations. He is the Founder and Principal of Community & Public Health Consulting (PAS LLC) and the Cofounder and President of the Board for the Chicago Queer Latine Collaborative (CQLC NFP). Formerly, Pedro served as an Instructor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

With extensive expertise in HIV/STI prevention, mobile health interventions, and digital epidemiology, Pedro has played a pivotal role in numerous high-impact research initiatives. He co-led the development and implementation of PrEPárate, a community-driven, bilingual social marketing campaign designed to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness and uptake among Latine sexual minority men and transgender women in Cook County, Illinois. His work heavily emphasizes community-engaged research (CEnR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR), ensuring that public health interventions are culturally responsive, structurally aware, and co-designed with the communities they serve. Pedro has also served as Project Director for the Keeping it LITE study, a national virtual cohort investigating HIV risk and prevention among SGM youth and young adults.

Pedro holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Community Health Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student in Leadership and Management at Claremont Graduate University. A passionate advocate for dismantling systemic barriers in healthcare and empowering marginalized voices in science, his contributions to the field were recently recognized with the 2025 40 Under 40 BCPH Public Health Catalyst Award.