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Ruth McNair is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with particular focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Reproductive Medicine, and Gender Studies.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Reproductive Health and Technologies, Sex work and related issues, African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues, Gender, Feminism, and Media, as well as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

Key recent publications by Ruth McNair include:

  • Lesbian parenting: issues, strengths and challenges (2024), published in Family matters
  • Private Lives 3: The health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia (2021), published by La Trobe University
  • Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services: Towards Embracing Multiple Identities (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Demographic and psychosocial factors associated with recent suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, and asexual (LGBQ) people in Australia: Correlates of suicidality among LGBQ Australians (2021), published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go? (2020), published in Journal of sociology

Frequent publishing venues for their work include:

  • Culture Health & Sexuality
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • Midwifery
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

Ruth McNair has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Adam O. Hill
  • Marina Carman
  • Anthony Lyons
  • Adam Bourne
  • Natalie Amos

Best Publications

  • The Burden of Bacterial Vaginosis: Women's Experience of the Physical, Emotional, Sexual and Social Impact of Living with Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis

    Jade Elissa Bilardi;Sandra Walker;Meredith Temple-Smith;Ruth McNair

  • The case for educating health care students in professionalism as the core content of interprofessional education

    Ruth P McNair

  • Substance abuse and mental health disparities: comparisons across sexual identity groups in a national sample of young Australian women.

    Tonda L. Hughes;Laura A. Szalacha;Ruth McNair

  • Family in transition: parents, children and grandparents in lesbian families give meaning to ‘doing family’

    Amaryll Perlesz;Rhonda Brown;Joanne Maree Lindsay;Ruth McNair

  • Absent sexual scripts: lesbian and bisexual women's knowledge, attitudes and action regarding safer sex and sexual health information.

    Jennifer Power;Ruth McNair;Susan Carr

  • Guidelines for the Primary Care of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People: A Systematic Review

    Ruth P. McNair;Kelsey Hegarty

  • Lesbian health inequalities: a cultural minority issue for health professionals

    Ruth P McNair

  • Stigma or respect: Lesbian-parented families negotiating school settings

    Joanne Maree Lindsay;Amaryll Perlesz;Rhonda Brown;Ruth McNair

  • Australian evidence for interprofessional education contributing to effective teamwork preparation and interest in rural practice

    Ruth McNair;Nick Stone;Jane Sims;Caroline Curtis

  • Parent-reported measures of child health and wellbeing in same-sex parent families: a cross-sectional survey.

    Simon R Crouch;Elizabeth Waters;Ruth McNair;Jennifer Power

  • Using reflexivity to enhance in-depth interviewing skills for the clinician researcher

    Ruth McNair;Angela Taft;Kelsey Hegarty

  • Rural interprofessional education: promoting teamwork in primary health care education and practice.

    Ruth McNair;Rhonda Brown;Nick Stone;Jane Sims

  • Mental health help seeking patterns and associations among Australian same sex attracted women, trans and gender diverse people: a survey-based study

    Ruth P. McNair;Rachel Bush

  • Health status, health service use, and satisfaction according to sexual identity of young Australian women

    Ruth P. McNair;Laura A. Szalacha;Tonda L. Hughes

  • The mental health status of young adult and mid-life non-heterosexual Australian women.

    Ruth McNair;Anne Kavanagh;Paul Agius;Bin Tong

  • Lesbian Parenting: Issues, Strengths and Challenges

    Ruth McNair;Deborah Dempsey;Sarah Wise;Amaryll Perlesz

  • Organising Work and Home in Same-Sex Parented Families: Findings From the Work Love Play Study

    Amaryll Perlesz;Jennifer Power;Rhonda Brown;Ruth McNair

  • Risks and prevention of sexually transmissible infections among women who have sex with women

    Ruth McNair

  • Private Lives 3: The health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia

    Adam Hill;Adam Bourne;Ruth McNair;Marina Carman

  • Lesbian parents negotiating the health care system in Australia.

    Ruth McNair;Rhonda Brown;Amaryll Perlesz;Joanne Maree Lindsay

  • Comparing knowledge and perceived risk related to the human papilloma virus among Australian women of diverse sexual orientations

    Ruth McNair;Jennifer Power;Susan Carr

Frequent Co-Authors

Catriona S. Bradshaw
Catriona S. Bradshaw Monash University
Marian Pitts
Marian Pitts La Trobe University
Tonda L. Hughes
Tonda L. Hughes Columbia University
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne
Angela Taft
Angela Taft La Trobe University
Adam Bourne
Adam Bourne La Trobe University
Anthony Lyons
Anthony Lyons La Trobe University
Laura A. Szalacha
Laura A. Szalacha University of South Florida

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