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  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gail E. Wyatt is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, health professions, and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, general health professions, infectious diseases, sociology and political science, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Recent publications by Gail E. Wyatt include:

  • "Mental health ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Black Americans: Clinical and research recommendations." (2020), Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  • "How mental health professionals can address disparities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic." (2020), Traumatology: An International Journal
  • "Racial/ethnic discrimination: Dimensions and relation to mental health symptoms in a marginalized urban American population." (2020), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • "ImPlementation REsearCh to DEvelop Interventions for People Living with HIV (the PRECluDE consortium): Combatting chronic disease comorbidities in HIV populations through implementation research." (2020), Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
  • "Enhancing patient and organizational readiness for cardiovascular risk reduction among Black and Latinx patients living with HIV: Study protocol." (2020), Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Gail E. Wyatt frequently publishes in several key venues, such as:

  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Ethnicity & Disease
  • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
  • American Psychologist

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Tamra Burns Loeb
  • Alison Brown
  • Muyu Zhang
  • Dorothy Chin
  • Michele Cooley-Strickland

Gail E. Wyatt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Life after breast cancer: understanding women's health-related quality of life and sexual functioning.

    P A Ganz;J H Rowland;K Desmond;B E Meyerowitz

  • The sexual abuse of Afro-American and White-American women in childhood☆

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt

  • Role of Breast Reconstructive Surgery in Physical and Emotional Outcomes Among Breast Cancer Survivors

    Julia H. Rowland;Katherine A. Desmond;Beth E. Meyerowitz;Thomas R. Belin

  • Differential effects of women's child sexual abuse and subsequent sexual revictimization.

    Gail E. Wyatt;Donald Guthrie;Cindy M. Notgrass

  • Lasting Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Gloria Johnson Powell

  • Psychological Responses after Abortion

    Nancy E. Adler;Henry P. David;Brenda N. Major;Susan H. Roth

  • The Sociocultural Context of African American and White American Women's Rape

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt

  • Internal and external mediators of women's sexual abuse in childhood

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Michael Newcomb

  • Addressing psychology's problem with race.

    Albert H. Yee;Halford H. Fairchild;Fredric Weizmann;Gail E. Wyatt

  • Does a history of trauma contribute to HIV risk for women of color? Implications for prevention and policy

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Hector F. Myers;John K. Williams;Christina Ramirez Kitchen

  • Issues in the definition of child sexual abuse in prevalence research

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Stefanie Doyle Peters

  • The prevalence and circumstances of child sexual abuse: changes across a decade.

    Gail E Wyatt;Tamra Burns Loeb;Beatriz Solis;Jennifer Vargas Carmona

  • Methodological considerations in research on the prevalence of child sexual abuse

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Stefanie Doyle Peters

  • Cumulative Burden of Lifetime Adversities: Trauma and Mental Health in Low-SES African Americans and Latino/as

    Hector F. Myers;Gail E. Wyatt;Jodie B. Ullman;Tamra B. Loeb

  • Sexuality following breast cancer

    Beth E. Meyerowitz;Katherine A. Desmond;Julia H. Rowland;Gail E. Wyatt

  • The Efficacy of an Integrated Risk Reduction Intervention for HIV-Positive Women With Child Sexual Abuse Histories

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt;Douglas Longshore;Dorothy Chin;Jennifer Vargas Carmona

  • Psychological factors in abortion. A review.

    Nancy E. Adler;Henry P. David;Brenda N. Major;Susan H. Roth

  • Targeting the SAVA (substance abuse, violence, and AIDS) syndemic among women and girls: a global review of epidemiology and integrated interventions

    Louisa Gilbert;Anita Raj;Denise Hien;Jamila Stockman

  • Psychosocial issues among gay- and non-gay-identifying HIV-seropositive African American and Latino MSM.

    John K. Williams;Gail E. Wyatt;Judith Resell;John Peterson

  • Child Sexual Abuse: Associations with the Sexual Functioning of Adolescents and Adults

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  • Stolen women: Reclaiming our sexuality, taking back our lives.

    Gail Elizabeth Wyatt

  • National Institute of Mental Health Multisite Eban HIV/STD Prevention Intervention for African American HIV Serodiscordant Couples: A Cluster Randomized Trial

    Nabila El-Bassel;John B. Jemmott;J. Richard Landis;Willo Pequegnat

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Guthrie
Donald Guthrie University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Hector F. Myers
Hector F. Myers Vanderbilt University
Brenda Major
Brenda Major University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael D. Newcomb
Michael D. Newcomb University of California, Los Angeles
Felipe González Castro
Felipe González Castro Arizona State University
L. Monique Ward
L. Monique Ward University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael E. Newcomb
Michael E. Newcomb Northwestern University
Beth L. Goodlin-Jones
Beth L. Goodlin-Jones University of California, Davis

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