Monica Quezada Barrera

8 LIMA, Peru (Dec. 01, 2023) Shown: The entrance to U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) SOUTH headquarters. Part of the Navy Medicine Research & Development enterprise, NAMRU SOUTH conducts research on a wide range of infectious diseases of military and public health significance, and supports Global Health Engagement through surveillance of those diseases, including dengue fever, malaria, diarrheal diseases and antimicrobial-resistant infections.

1. Introduction In this article, we employ the identifier Latinx/a/o (or Latina when referring to solely trans or cis women) to include those across all gender expressions with roots in Central and South America as well as the Caribbean Islands. When referencing other researchers’ works, we honor their specific verbiage. The Latinx/a/o population in the U.S. is rapidly growing. In 2020, Latinx/a/os made up 62.1 million in the U.S. population [1], an 11.6 million increase in comparison to 2010.