Yonaira M. Rivera, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication & Information. Dr. Rivera’s scholarship focuses on reducing health inequities and improving the well-being of Latino/a/x communities through health communication initiatives. Her work uses qualitatively-driven, mixed methods and community-based participatory research in English and Spanish. Dr. Rivera’s current projects include developing community-led, culturally relevant, multilingual health communication interventions for Latino/a/x audiences, and exploring the role social media platforms play in facilitating health communication efforts among community leaders in Puerto Rico. She also studies how large language models can communicate health information in accessible, reliable, and culturally sensitive ways. Dr. Rivera is an Associate Member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s Cancer Prevention & Control Program and a member of the Rutgers Global Health Institute. Prior to her doctoral work, Dr. Rivera was a community health educator through the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Center for Reducing Cancer Health Disparities. She is a Douglass College alumna (DC’06) and received her Ph.D. in Social & Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and MPH in Behavioral Sciences & Health Education from Emory University.