Director of Transgender Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of Transgender Health Research, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health
Dr. Reisner (he/him) is Director of Transgender Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of Transgender Health Research at The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health. Trained as a social and psychiatric epidemiologist, his research focuses on: (1) health disparities and inequities in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) populations, with specialization in global transgender and gender diverse population health; (2) the epidemiology of infectious diseases including HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in stigmatized populations, including biobehavioral intervention development and testing; (3) psychiatric epidemiology concentrating on mental health and substance use/abuse risks and resiliencies in adolescence and young adulthood. Guided by community-based participatory research principles, Dr. Reisner uses a participatory population perspective to work with (not on) communities in conducting epidemiologic research, program evaluation, training and education, and advocacy. He has contributed to more than 200+ peer-reviewed articles and was profiled in The Lancet as a global leader in transgender health in 2016.
Representative Publications
- Reisner, S.L., Moore, C.S., Asquith, A., Pardee, D.J., Sarvet, A., Mayer, G., Mayer, K.H. (2019). High risk and low uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition in a national online sample of transgender men who have sex with men in the United States. J Int AIDS Soc, 22(9), e25391.
- Reisner, S.L., Hughto, J.M.W. (2019). Comparing the health of non-binary and binary transgender adults in a statewide non-probability sample. PLoS One, 14(8), e0221583.
- Reisner, S.L., Randazzo, R.K., White Hughto, J.M., Peitzmeier, S., DuBois, L.Z., Pardee, D.J., Marrow, E., McLean, S., Potter, J. (2018). Sensitive Health Topics With Underserved Patient Populations: Methodological Considerations for Online Focus Group Discussions. Qual Health Res, 28(10), 1658-1673.
- Reisner, S.L., Jadwin-Cakmak, L., White Hughto, J.M., Martinez, M., Salomon, L., Harper, G.W. (2017). Characterizing the HIV Prevention and Care Continua in a Sample of Transgender Youth in the U.S. AIDS Behav, 21(12), 3312-3327.
- Reisner, S.L., Deutsch, M.B., Peitzmeier, S.M., White Hughto, J.M., Cavanaugh, T., Pardee, D.J., McLean, S., Marrow, E.J., Mimiaga, M.J., Panther, L., Gelman, M., Green, J., Potter, J. (2017). Comparing self- and provider-collected swabbing for HPV DNA testing in female-to-male transgender adult patients: a mixed-methods biobehavioral study protocol. BMC Infect Dis, 17(1), 444.
- Reisner, S.L., Perez-Brumer, A.G., McLean, S.A., Lama, J.R., Silva-Santisteban, A., Huerta, L., Sanchez, J., Clark, J.L., Mimiaga, M.J., Mayer, K.H. (2017). Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating HIV Prevention and Treatment with Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Transgender Women in Lima, Peru. AIDS Behav, 21(12), 3299-3311.
- Reisner, S.L., Poteat, T., Keatley, J., Cabral, M., Mothopeng, T., Dunham, E., Holland, C.E., Max, R., Baral, S.D. (2016). Global health burden and needs of transgender populations: a review. Lancet, 388(10042), 412-436.
- Reisner, S.L., Conron, K.J., Tardiff, L.A., JArvi, S., Gordon, A.R., Austin, S.B. (2014). Monitoring the health of transgender and other gender minority populations: Validity of natal sex and gender identity survey items in a U.S. national cohort of young adults. BMC Public health, 14(1), 1224.
- Reisner SL, Biello K, Rosenberger JG, Austin SB, Haneuse S, Perez-Brumer A, Novak DS, Mimiaga MJ. A two-step method to measure transgender identity in Latin America/the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain. Archives of Sexual Behavior 2014;43:1503-1514.
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