Title/Position: Dean and Professor
Profile:Credentials
Nilda (Nena) P. Peragallo Montano, DrPH, RN, FAAN
School of Nursing and Health Studies
M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing Education
Room 210
Telephone: (305) 284-2107
Fax: (305) 667-3787
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Education
BS, Nursing, University of Chile, 1971
MS, Nursing, University of West Virginia, 1979
DrPH, Public Health, University of Texas, 1984
Clinical Specialties
Public Health Nursing
Primary Teaching Areas
Public Health Nursing Research
Doctoral Dissertation Seminar
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Research Rotation
Special Topics in Nursing Research
Seminar in Nursing Science
Program Plan & Evaluation
Research and Academic Interests
HIV/AIDS Prevention/Intervention in Minority Populations, Cultural Competency, Health Disparities, Intimate Partner Violence, Recruitment/Retention of Minorities in Nursing
Research (selected)
Principal Investigator. Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research: El Centro 2P60MD002266-06. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD). $5,983,843, 2012-2017
Principal Investigator. SEPA III: The Effectiveness Trial 2P60MD002266-06. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD). $1,407,486, 2012-2017
Principal Investigator. NCMHD Center for Culturally-Tailored Hispanic Health Disparities Research 1P60MD002266-01. National Institute of Health (NIH). 2007-2012
Principal Investigator. SEPA: HIV Intervention Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Women – (Study 2) - NCMHD Center for Culturally-Tailored Hispanic Health Disparities Research 1P60MD002266-01. National Institute of Health (NIH). 2007-2010
Co-Investigator. Testing an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention for Chilean women.
R01 TW006977-01. National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2004-2009.
Co-Investigator. Mobilizing Health Workers for Community HIV Prevention in Chile. National Institutes of Health (NIH) #1 R03 TW006980-01, 2004-2007.
Co-Investigator. Futuros profesionales de la salud: Fortaleciendo sus conocimientos, actitudes y conductas frente al VIH/SIDA. DIPUC/27Ce. Pontificía Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004-2005.
Principal Investigator. NGA for supplement funding of HIV risk reduction among Latinas: Project SEPA. R01-NR04746-01. University of Maryland at Baltimore, 2002-2003.
Principal Investigator. HIV risk reduction among Latinas: Project SEPA. R01-R04746-01. NINR/NIMH, 1998-2002.
Interim Program Director. Department of Health and Human Services Health
Resources and Services Administration. Advanced Education Nursing Grant:
Anesthesia, University of Miami , 2005.
Program Director. SUCCEED Florida, Crucial Professionals, Nursing Program.
Continuation. University of Miami, 2006 - 2007.
Program Director, SUCCEED Florida, Crucial Professional/Nursing & Allied Health
Program, Competitive, University of Miami, 2007.
Publications (selected)
Cianelli, R., Villegas, N., Lawson, S., Ferrer, L., Kaelber, L., Peragallo, N., Yaya, A. (in press). Unique factors that place older Hispanic women at risk for HIV: Intimate partner violence, machismo and marianismo. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Gonzalez-Guarda, R.M., Vermeesch, A., Florom-Smith, A., McCabe, B. & Peragallo, N. (2013). Birthplace, culture, self-esteem and intimate partner violence among community dwelling Hispanic women. Violence Against Women, 19(1), 6 - 23. DOI 10.1177/1077801212475336.
Norris, A.E., Hughes, C., Hecht, M.L., Peragallo, N.P., & Nickerson, D. A (in press). A randomized trial of a peer resistance skill building game for Hispanic early adolescent girls: Impact and feasibility of DRAMA-RAMA. Nursing Research.
Triviño, X., Ferrer, L., Bernales, M., Cianelli, R., Moore, P., Peragallo, N. (in press). Effect of emotionally-complex roles on HIV-related simulated patients. Hispanic Health Care International.
Cianelli, R., Ferrer, L., Norr, F., K., Miner, S., Irarrazabal, L., Bernales, M., Peragallo, N., Levy., J., Norr., J., & McElmurry, B. (2012). Mano a Mano-Mujer: An effective HIV prevention intervention for Chilean women. Health Care for Women International, 33(4), 321-341.
Cianelli, R., Lara, L., Villegas, N., Bernales, M., Ferrer, L., Kaelber, L., & Peragallo, N. (2012). Impact of Mano a Mano-Mujer, an HIV prevention intervention, on depressive symptoms among Chilean women. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
Villegas, N., Cianelli, R., Ferrer, L., Kaelber L., Peragallo, N., Yaya, A. (2012). Prevención de VIH para mujeres Hispanas de 50 años y más [HIV prevention for Hispanic women 50 years and older]. Horizonte de Enfermería, 23 (1), 51-61.
Villegas, N., Cianelli, R., Gonzalez-Guarda R., Kaelber L., Ferrer, L., Peragallo, N. (in press). Predictors of self-efficacy for HIV prevention among Hispanic Women in South Florida. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
Peragallo, N., Gonzalez-Guarda, RM., McCabe, B., & Cianelli, R. (2012). The efficacy of an HIV risk reduction intervention for Hispanic women. AIDS and Behavior, 16 (5), 1316-1326.
Presentations (selected)
Peragallo, N. Efficacy of SEPA II: An HIV Risk Reduction Program Among Hispanic Women in Florida”. Sigma Theta Tau 23rd International Nursing Research Congress. July 30 to August 10, 2012, Brisbane, Australia.
Peragallo, N., Gonzalez-Guarda, R., McCabe, B., Cianelli, R., Villegas, N. Decreasing health disparities: Efficacy of an HIV risk reduction program (SEPA II) for Hispanic women in Florida. Caribbean Exploratory NIMHD Research Center’s Fourth Health Disparities Institute: "Partnerships, Collaborations, and Models to Reduce Health Disparities in the USVI and the Caribbean". October 19-22, 2011, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
Villegas, N., Cianelli, R., Peragallo, N. Reducing health disparities in a minority population: Assessing the needs for HIV prevention among the older Hispanic women in South Florida. Caribbean Exploratory NIMHD Research Center’s Fourth Health Disparities Institute: "Partnerships, Collaborations, and Models to Reduce Health Disparities in the USVI and the Caribbean". October 19-22, 2011, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
Cianelli, R., Villegas, N., Ferer, L., Peragallo, N. Mano a Mano-Mujer (Hand to Hand-for Women): A Nursing Education Initiative to Prevent HIV among Chilean Women. 11th Iberoamerican Conference on Nursing Education of ALADEFE. September 18-23, Coimbra-Portugal, 2011.
Villegas, N., Cianelli, R., Ferrer, L., Peragallo, N. Educación en prevención de VIH para mujeres hispanas de 50 años y más [Education in HIV prevention for Hispanic women 50 years and older]. 11th Iberoamerican Conference on Nursing Education of ALADEFE. September 18-23, Coimbra-Portugal, 2011.
Cianelli, R., Villegas, N., Ferrer, L., Peragallo, N. Outcomes for Mano a Mano- Mujer (Hand to Hand-for Women): An HIV Prevention for Low Income Chilean Women. Sigma Theta Tau International's 22nd International Nursing Research Congress. July 10-15, Cancun Mexico, 2011.
Villegas, N., Cianelli, R., Ferer, L., Peragallo, N. Stigma Related to HIV Among Health Care Workers in Chile. Sigma Theta Tau International's 22nd International Nursing Research Congress, July 10-15. Cancun Mexico, 2011.
Cianelli, R., Ferrer, L., Peragallo, N. Decreasing Health Disparites: Mano a Mano Mujer, an HIV prevention intervention, final outcomes. Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center Special Seminar. May 25, El Paso, Texas, 2011.
Cianelli, R., Ferrer, L., Villegas, N., Norr, K., Peragallo, N. Nurses in Chile as leaders to protect the health rights of people living with HIV against stigma. International Council of Nursing Conference. May 2- 8 La Valeta, Malta 2011.
Cianelli, R., & Peragallo, N. Midwifery Training to Decrease Maternal Mortality and HIV in Haiti. Conference Partnerships to Enhance Nursing Education in Haiti. April 14 -15, New York, 2011.
Major Accomplishments
Member, Iron Arrow, (highest honor at University of Miami), 2012
Member, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Committee for the Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, 2012
Member, IntraHealth International Board of Directors, 2012-Present
Founding Co-Editor, Hispanic Health Care International, 2002-Present
Member, National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (2005-2009 and 2007-2011)
Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research, Board of Trustees and Vice President, 2008-Present (Nightingala Program Committee Chair: 2012)
Co-Chair, The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Health Project Workforce Committee, 2011
100 Most Influential Leaders of 2011, Hispanic Business
America Red Cross Spectrum Award Honoree, 2007
Named Ambassador in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research at Research, America, 2006
Hispanic Health Leadership Award, National Hispanic Medical Association’s Eighth Annual Conference, “Hispanic Health Strategies, 2004
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2000-Present
President, National Association of Hispanic Nurses (2002-2004; Member: 1994-present)
Ildaura Murillo - Rhode Excellence in Education Award, National Association of Hispanic Nurses, 2001
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, 1986-Present
