Staff: Carlos O. Garrido, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H.
Carlos O. Garrido, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H.
Cancer Research Training Award Fellow
- Office of the Associate Director (OAD)
- Behavioral Research Program (BRP)
carlos.garrido@nih.gov
312-340-8090
Carlos O. Garrido, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., is a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) fellow in Applied Health Communication in the Office of the Associate Director (Behavioral Research Program).
Dr. Garrido's research is characterized by identifying psychological assets and barriers to health promotive behaviors and, through that knowledge, by the development of psychological interventions to promote healthy behaviors and reduce the cancer burden. As the principal investigator, he has conducted 100+ studies spanning from the basic science of person perception to social cognition (i.e., implicit stereotyping and prejudice, cancer fatalism) and psychosocial determinants of health. A major focus of Dr. Garrido's work is to reduce cancer health disparities and benefit segments of the population that have typically been underrepresented and/or underserved in public health research. For example, he studies the influence of implicitly biased interpersonal exchanges in and outside health care settings on patient-centered outcomes for stigmatized and/or minority patients.
Prior to coming to NCI, Dr. Garrido held the role of T-32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Garrido earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from The Pennsylvania State University-University Park. While at Penn State, he studied the basic science of interpersonal impressions and facial perception. Dr. Garrido holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Florida and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Arizona. His Passion for science began early in his undergraduate training at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he joined his first social psychology and personality laboratory as a lab manager.
Current and/or past BRP mentors include Mimi Lising and Paul Han.
Research Areas
- Social determinants of cancer health
- Cancer health disparities
- Cognitive biases in health-focused decision-making
- Implicit stereotyping and prejudice
- Cancer health promotion
- Cancer screening
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Garrido CO, Coskun RA, Lent AB, Calhoun E, Harris RB. Use of cervical cancer preventive services among US women aged 21-29: an assessment of the 2010 Affordable Care Act rollout through 2018. Cancer Causes Control 2020 Sep; 31(9):839-850.
- Lent AB, Garrido CO, Baird EH, Viela R, Harris RB. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Life Insurance Denial Due to Cancer among Cancer Survivors. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022 19; 4(2166).
- Adams RB Jr, Garrido CO, Albohn DN, Hess U, Kleck RE. What Facial Appearance Reveals Over Time: When Perceived Expressions in Neutral Faces Reveal Stable Emotion Dispositions. Front Psychol 2016 Jun30;7:986.
- Garrido CO. Social Information Processing. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences 2018.
- Adams RB, Albohn DN, Hedgecoth N, Garrido CO, Donnelly-Adams K. Angry White faces: A contradiction of racial stereotypes and emotion-resembling appearance. Affect Sci .
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