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Overview

Don Operario is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine and psychology, focusing primarily on infectious diseases, social psychology, epidemiology, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The scientist's extensive publication record includes significant work in HIV/AIDS research and interventions, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, as well as studies on HIV, drug use, and sexual risk. Other research topics encompass sex work and related issues, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexuality behavior and technology, and reproductive health and technologies.

Frequent publication venues for Don Operario include:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • UNC Libraries
  • Transgender Health
  • AIDS Education and Prevention

The scientist has collaborated regularly with co-authors such as Arjee Restar, Shufang Sun, Eduard J. Sanders, Elise van der Elst, and Kristi E. Gamarel.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Don Operario include:

  • Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, 2021, Globalization and Health
  • Research with Marginalized Communities: Challenges to Continuity During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, AIDS and Behavior
  • Addressing Minority Stress and Mental Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in China, 2020, Current HIV/AIDS Reports
  • A mindfulness-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention among psychologically distressed university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial, 2021, Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Health Conditions, Outcomes, and Service Access Among Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Adults in California, 2011-2017, 2020, American Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Subjective social status: reliability and predictive utility for global health

    Don Operario;Nancy E. Adler;David R. Williams

  • Ethnic Identity Moderates Perceptions of Prejudice: Judgments of Personal Versus Group Discrimination and Subtle Versus Blatant Bias

    Don Operario;Susan T. Fiske

  • Psychological distress amongst AIDS‐orphaned children in urban South Africa

    Lucie Cluver;Frances Gardner;Don Operario

  • HIV risk and preventive interventions in transgender women sex workers

    Tonia Poteat;Andrea L Wirtz;Anita Radix;Annick Borquez

  • Sex work and HIV status among transgender women: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Don Operario;Toho Soma;Kristen Underhill

  • HIV Risk Behaviors Among Male-to-Female Transgender Persons of Color in San Francisco.

    Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario;JoAnne Keatley;Lei Han

  • Gender minority stress, mental health, and relationship quality: a dyadic investigation of transgender women and their cisgender male partners.

    Kristi E. Gamarel;Sari L. Reisner;Jean-Philippe Laurenceau;Tooru Nemoto

  • High Acceptability of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis but Challenges in Adherence and Use: Qualitative Insights from a Phase I Trial of Intermittent and Daily PrEP in At-Risk Populations in Kenya

    Elisabeth Maria Van der Elst;Judie Mbogua;Don Operario;Gaudensia Mutua

  • Perceived Risks and Benefits of Sex Work among Transgender Women of Color in San Francisco

    Lydia A. Sausa;JoAnne Keatley;Don Operario

  • Couples-focused behavioral interventions for prevention of HIV: systematic review of the state of evidence

    Jennifer Burton;Lynae A. Darbes;Don Operario

  • Sexual abstinence only programmes to prevent HIV infection in high income countries: systematic review

    Kristen Underhill;Paul Montgomery;Don Operario

  • Social context of HIV risk behaviours among male-to-female transgenders of colour.

    T. Nemoto;D. Operario;J. Keatley;D. Villegas

  • HIV in transgender communities: syndemic dynamics and a need for multicomponent interventions.

    Don Operario;Tooru Nemoto

  • The Impact of Exposure to Transphobia on HIV Risk Behavior in a Sample of Transgendered Women of Color in San Francisco

    Eiko Sugano;Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario

  • Discrimination, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorders Among Sexual Minority Populations.

    Ji Hyun Lee;Kristi E. Gamarel;Kendall J. Bryant;Nickolas D. Zaller

  • Effects of stigma on the mental health of adolescents orphaned by AIDS.

    Lucie D. Cluver;Frances Gardner;Don Operario

  • Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

    Shufang Sun;Simon B. Goldberg;Danhua Lin;Shan Qiao

  • Situational Power and Interpersonal Dominance Facilitate Bias and Inequality

    Stephanie A. Goodwin;Don Operario;Susan T. Fiske

  • The role of gender affirmation in psychological well-being among transgender women

    Tiffany R. Glynn;Kristi E. Gamarel;Christopher W. Kahler;Mariko Iwamoto

  • HIV risk among men who have sex with men who have experienced childhood sexual abuse: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Shane Lloyd;Don Operario

  • Sexual Minority Health Disparities in Adult Men and Women in the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001–2010

    Don Operario;Kristi E. Gamarel;Benjamin M. Grin;Ji Hyun Lee

  • Improving Engagement in the HIV Care Cascade: A Systematic Review of Interventions Involving People Living with HIV/AIDS as Peers

    Becky L. Genberg;Sylvia Shangani;Kelly Sabatino;Beth Rachlis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher W. Kahler
Christopher W. Kahler Brown University
Lucie Cluver
Lucie Cluver University of Oxford
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
Matthew J. Mimiaga
Matthew J. Mimiaga University of California, Los Angeles
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Nancy P. Barnett
Nancy P. Barnett Brown University
Suzanne M. Colby
Suzanne M. Colby Brown University
Amy C. Justice
Amy C. Justice Yale University
Larry K. Brown
Larry K. Brown Brown University

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