My dissertation research is focused on sexual and gender minority health disparities. Specifically, I am researching how structural stigma influences trans/gender minority health outcomes and how access to a robust gender minority community can moderate the negative effects of prejudice and stigma. I am also interested in health policy, and I am currently working a project that studies the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on HIV/AIDS rates across states. In past research I have examined the social determinants of prejudice and tolerance toward gay men and women.

 

I am involved in two other ongoing research projects: 1) designing and analyzing an original nationally representative survey on attitudes toward synthetic biology, an emerging technology, and 2) studying differences across gender and ethnicity in STEM aspirations in Israel.