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Tooru Nemoto is affiliated with the Public Health Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with notable contributions in subfields including social psychology, infectious diseases, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and gender studies.

Their work focuses extensively on topics related to LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, as well as HIV/AIDS research and interventions. Other prominent themes include sexuality, behavior, and technology, sex work and related issues, HIV-related health complications and treatments, HIV research and treatment, and gender, feminism, and media.

Nemoto has published multiple papers, with recent notable works including:

  • A "tax" on gender affirmation and safety: costs and benefits of intranational migration for transgender young adults in the San Francisco Bay area, 2020, Culture Health & Sexuality
  • Couples-based approach to HIV prevention for transgender women and their partners: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial testing the efficacy of the 'It Takes Two' intervention, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Sociocultural Contexts of Access to HIV Primary Care and Participant Experience with an Intervention Project: African American Transgender Women Living with HIV in Alameda County, California, 2020, AIDS and Behavior
  • Stigma and Substance Use Among Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults: Results from the Phoenix Study, 2023, Transgender Health
  • HIV Risk Behaviors in Relation to Psychosocial Factors and Internet Usage Among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Men Who Had Sex With Men (MSM) in California, 2020, AIDS Education and Prevention

The venues in which Nemoto frequently publishes include AIDS Education and Prevention, Culture Health & Sexuality, BMJ Open, AIDS and Behavior, and Transgender Health.

Nemoto collaborates regularly with several coauthors, with frequent partnerships including:

  • Mariko Iwamoto
  • Kristi E. Gamarel
  • Don Operario
  • Wesley M. King
  • Sabrina Suico

Best Publications

  • Social Support, Exposure to Violence and Transphobia, and Correlates of Depression Among Male-to-Female Transgender Women With a History of Sex Work

    Tooru Nemoto;Birte Bödeker;Mariko Iwamoto

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 behaviours among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females.

    T. Nemoto;D. Luke;L. Mamo;A. Ching

  • Promoting health for transgender women: Transgender Resources and Neighborhood Space (TRANS) program in San Francisco.

    Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario;JoAnne Keatley;Hongmai Nguyen

  • Unprotected Sexual Behavior and HIV Risk in the Context of Primary Partnerships for Transgender Women

    Don Operario;Tooru Nemoto;Mariko Iwamoto;Toni Moore

  • HIV risk and prevention among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men: listen to our stories.

    Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario;Toho Soma;Daniel Bao

  • Need for HIV/AIDS education and intervention for MTF transgenders: responding to the challenge.

    Tooru Nemoto;Lydia A Sausa;Don Operario;Joanne Keatley

  • Dyadic effects of gender minority stressors in substance use behaviors among transgender women and their non-transgender male partners.

    Sari L. Reisner;Kristi E. Gamarel;Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario

  • Minority Stress, Smoking Patterns, and Cessation Attempts: Findings From a Community-Sample of Transgender Women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Kristi E. Gamarel;Ethan H. Mereish;David Manning;Mariko Iwamoto

  • HIV-related risk behaviors among kathoey (male-to-female transgender) sex workers in Bangkok, Thailand

    Tooru Nemoto;Mariko Iwamoto;Usaneya Perngparn;Chitlada Areesantichai

  • Drug use behaviors among Asian drug users in San Francisco.

    Tooru Nemoto;Bart Aoki;Karen Huang;Anne Morris

  • Practices of receptive and insertive anal sex among transgender women in relation to partner types, sociocultural factors, and background variables

    Tooru Nemoto;Birte Bödeker;Mariko Iwamoto;Maria Sakata

  • STIGMA AND THE SYNDEMIC OF HIV‐RELATED HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS IN A DIVERSE SAMPLE OF TRANSGENDER WOMEN

    Don Operario;Mei-Fen Yang;Sari L. Reisner;Mariko Iwamoto

  • Health and Social Services for Male-to-Female Transgender Persons of Color in San Francisco

    Tooru Nemoto;Don Operario;JoAnne Keatley Msw

  • Sexual risk behavior and substance use among a sample of Asian Pacific Islander transgendered women.

    Don Operario;Tooru Nemoto

  • Social factors related to risk for violence and sexually transmitted infections/HIV among Asian massage parlor workers in San Francisco

    Tooru Nemoto;Mariko Iwamoto;Serena Wong;Mai Nhung Le

Frequent Co-Authors

Don Operario
Don Operario Emory University
Kristi E. Gamarel
Kristi E. Gamarel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau University of Delaware
Lynae A. Darbes
Lynae A. Darbes University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Mallory O. Johnson
Mallory O. Johnson University of California, San Francisco
Christopher W. Kahler
Christopher W. Kahler Brown University
Anita Raj
Anita Raj University of California, San Diego

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