Ricardo Diego Suarez Rojas
Part-time faculty
Biography
Diego Suarez Rojas is a bioethicist and clinical social worker specializing in trauma, imagination, stress, and community development. He has over 10 years of experience integrating the humanities, the arts, and social and biomedical sciences in higher education settings (Universidad Iberoamericana, University of Chicago) and community settings in Mexico. He is the founder and director of Laboratorio en Movimiento, an organization that promotes science, art, and participatory research in community settings in the South of Mexico. For the last 5 years, through Laboratorio en Movimiento, he has developed mixed-methods interventions with the police force, qualitative research in schools, free educational workshops, and several campaigns to disseminate science and influence policy. Currently, he directs a scholarship program with his team to provide citizens with training in philosophy, creative writing, and neuroscience to have a community impact in Chiapas. As a researcher and community organizer in larger teams, he has collaborated at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab (Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago), International House at The University of Chicago, Cell to Society Lab (Boston College), and the Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing (Harvard School of Public Health).
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- APSY2217 Statistics for Applied Psychology
- SCWK7747 Research Methods in Social Work Practice
- APSY7550 Disaster Mental Health Counseling
- SCWK8841 Program Evaluation
- SCWK8886 Financial Management and Resource Development
- APSY7221 Neurological and Biological Bases of Behavior
- APSY6461 Psychological Responses to Humanitarian Crises