Center for Women's and Gender Studies Centers & Institutes (Florida Board of Governors)
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Position
- Burns, Victoria, Associate Teaching Professor
- Cornelius, Marie Alexandra, Teaching Professor
- Gray, Aaliyah, Research Assistant Professor
- Mayora, Ramon Gabriel, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Moura-Kocoglu, Michaela, Associate Teaching Professor
- Ramirez, Jenesis, Assistant Teaching Professor
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Scholarly & Creative Works
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2026Exploring State- and Individual-Level Characteristics Associated with Perceived Barriers to Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Among Young Adult Black Women. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH. 63:1199-1212.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2025.2551730 Web of Science: 001570352900001
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2026Using Dynamic Causal Bayesian Networks to Assess the Role of Patient-Centered Care and Individual-Level Barriers on Viral Suppression Changes Among a Cohort of People with HIV. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR. 30:2564-2583.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10461-026-05082-w Web of Science: 001696153400001
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2026Are Motivations and Consequences for Sexting with Boys and Men the Same for Sexually Diverse and Heterosexual Girls?. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2026.2685768 Web of Science: 001790941300001
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2026Prioritizing Barriers and Facilitators to PrEP Uptake Among Black Cisgender Women: Key Factors Identified Through Nominal Group Technique. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23050571
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2026Unmet Sex Education Needs among Young Adult Black Women in the United States: a Qualitative Exploration of Perceived Informational Gaps in School-Based Sex Education. SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13178-026-01336-3 Web of Science: 001744159200001
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2026Awareness, Acceptability, and Preferences for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Modalities Among Black Women: A Critical Review and Brief Report of a Pilot Study. AIDS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION. 38:135-150.Full Text via DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2026.38.2.135 Web of Science: 001756358200001
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2026Awareness of State-Level Abortion Policy Climates among Young Adult Black Women: Examining Agreement between State Classifications and Participant Perceptions. SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13178-026-01303-y Web of Science: 001698758800001
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2026School-Based Sex Education Experiences Among Young Adult Black Women Ages 18 to 22: Does State-Level Sex Education Policy Matter?. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEXUALITY EDUCATION.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15546128.2026.2621224 Web of Science: 001678714700001
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2026Culture and Patient-Provider Trust Among People with HIV: Psychometric Properties of the HCR Trust Scale-Revised in Haitian Creole and Spanish. JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES. 13:250-263.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40615-024-02241-4 Web of Science: 001372650200001
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2026Anticipated Negative Impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Among Young Adult Black Women in the US. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/psrh.70080
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2025Barriers to COVID-19 vaccination and strategies to increase trust and uptake among racial and ethnic minorities with HIV in South Florida: a qualitative study. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25017-9 Web of Science: 001613984400002
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2025Race- and ethnicity-specific patient-provider relationship characteristics associated with antiretroviral therapy adherence and viral suppression among minority women with HIV, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2021-2022. AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV. 37:1843-1856.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2025.2547943 Web of Science: 001559279900001
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2025The State of Sexual Education: State Laws and Regulations Mandating Sexual Education in the United States. American Journal of Public Health. 115:1723-1733.Full Text via DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308199 Web of Science: 001570684900030
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2025Modeling the Mediating Effects of HIV-Related Sigma on the Associations Between Race/Ethnicity and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Viral Suppression Among Diverse Racial and Ethnic Minority Women with HIV. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR. 29:2530-2541.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10461-025-04713-y Web of Science: 001472122400001
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2025A Qualitative Study Exploring How the Perspectives and Experiences of Cisgender Black Women Inform Their Readiness to Consider Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 22.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22040558
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2025Associations of Unmet Food and Housing Needs with Mental Health and Overall Perceived Health Among Women with HIV: Is There a Moderating Effect of Social Support?. Women's Health Reports. 6:453-463.Full Text via DOI: 10.1089/whr.2024.0120 Web of Science: 001470824600001
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2024An examination of the independent and intersectional effects of racial and heterosexist medical mistrust on timing of sexual/reproductive health care visits among Black sexual minority women in the USA. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 26:1167-1184.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2304150 Web of Science: 001145200800001
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2024Using Causal Bayesian Networks to Assess the Role of Patient-Centered Care and Psychosocial Factors on Durable HIV Viral Suppression. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR. 28:2113-2130.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10461-024-04310-5 Web of Science: 001197081900001
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2024Exploring the use of self-management strategies for antiretroviral therapy adherence among women with HIV in the Miami-Dade County Ryan White Program. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 47:282-294.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-023-00459-x Web of Science: 001099476000001
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2024A Systematic Review of the Impact of HIV-Related Stigma and Serostatus Disclosure on Retention in Care and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Women with HIV in the United States/Canada. AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS. 38:23-49.Full Text via DOI: 10.1089/apc.2023.0178 Web of Science: 001195148200004
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2023Differences in mental health and alcohol use across profiles of COVID-19 disruptions. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 58:393-403.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agad028 Web of Science: 000975260100001
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2023Patient-Provider Relationships and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Durable Viral Suppression Among Women with HIV, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2021-2022. AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS. 37:361-372.Full Text via DOI: 10.1089/apc.2023.0029 Web of Science: 001025970300005
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2023Factors associated with HPV vaccine acceptability and hesitancy among Black mothers with young daughters in the United States. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 11.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1124206 Web of Science: 000984298400001
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2023To Carry Pain, to Heal through Ceremony: Indigenous Women's Standpoint in Indigenous Australian and Canadian Literatures. Studies in Canadian Literature - Etudes en Litterature Canadienne. 48:169-188.Full Text via DOI: 10.7202/1111916ar
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2022COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents of Children under Five Years in the United States. Vaccines. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10081313 Web of Science: 000845134900001
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2022Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Adolescents 12-17 Years Old: Examining Pediatric Vaccine Hesitancy Among Racially Diverse Parents in the United States. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.844310 Web of Science: 000780396400001
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2022COVID-19 Pediatric Vaccine Hesitancy among Racially Diverse Parents in the United States. Vaccines. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10010031 Web of Science: 000747482100001
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2021Fighting Back Against College Campus Sexual Violence: Teaching and Supervising Courses to Empower Students. WOMEN & THERAPY. 44:391-414.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1961450 Web of Science: 000705397200001
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2021Predictors of Contraceptive Self-Efficacy and Condom Use Among Young Black Women Who Have Sex With Women and Men. Journal of Bisexuality. 21:380-404.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2021.1971592 Web of Science: 000698255200001
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2020Surveillance Studies Involving HIV Testing Are Needed: Will At-Risk Youth Participate?. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. 39:21-28.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/hea0000804 Web of Science: 000501535800003
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2017Decolonizing Gender Roles in Pacific Women's Writing: Indigenous Feminist Theories and the Reconceptualization of Women's Authority. Contemporary Women's Writing. 11:239-258.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpx015 Web of Science: 000407799400007
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2017Decolonizing gender roles in pacific women's writing: Indigenous feminist theories and the reconceptualization of women's authority. Contemporary Women's Writing. 11:239-258.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/cwwrit/vpx015
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2016More than unfinished business: Transgenerational trauma and Indigenous storytelling in Tina Makereti’s Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings. Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. 4:19-32.Full Text via DOI: 10.1386/nzps.4.1.19_1
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2016Special issue: New Zealand and Pacific literature. Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. 4:3-4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1386/nzps.4.1.3_2
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Book Chapter
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2009Manifestation of Self and/or Tribal Identity? - Māori Writing in the Global Maelstrom. 221-231.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/9789042028845_014
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Conference
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2022The Intersectionality of Racial and Heterosexist Medical Mistrust Among Black Women Who Have Sex With Women and Men. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL HEALTH. 250-250.Web of Science: 000783334400364
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Other Scholarly Work
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2026Midwifery Care and Doula Support for Black Women in the United States: A Systematic Review of Maternal, Birth, and Infant Outcomes (Jul,10.1007/s40615-026-03121-9, 2026). JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40615-026-03152-2 Web of Science: 001848310200001
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2025Modeling the Mediating Effects of HIV-Related Stigma on the Associations Between Race/Ethnicity and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Viral Suppression Among Diverse Racial and Ethnic Minority Women with HIV (APR, 10.1007/s10461-025-04713-y, 2025). AIDS AND BEHAVIOR. 2542-2542.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10461-025-04758-z Web of Science: 001488724900001
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2026Midwifery Care and Doula Support for Black Women in the United States: A Systematic Review of Maternal, Birth, and Infant Outcomes. JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40615-026-03121-9 Web of Science: 001835028900001
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2024A Systematic Review of Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake, Hesitancy, and Acceptability Among Adults with HIV: Implications for Integrating COVID-19 Immunization into HIV Care. AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS. 393-427.Full Text via DOI: 10.1089/apc.2024.0097 Web of Science: 001276434000001
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2011Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Māori Literature. Cross/Cultures. 1-332.
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Research
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- 2025-2026 PAT4YOU@FIU and Triple P4YOU@FIU
- Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health
- Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health
- Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health
- Empowering Girls Through STEAM
- Initiative for Gender Violence Prevention
- Maternal Health Research Network (MH-RN) for MSIs
- PAT4YOU
- PAT4YOU
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- PAT4YOU - Parents As Teachers
- PAT4YOU - Parents as Teachers 2019-2020
- PAT4YOU@FIU
- PAT4YOU@FIU 2018-2019
- PAT4YOU@FIU 2020-2021
- PAT4YOU@FIU and Triple P4YOU@FIU
- PAT4YOU@FIU and Triple P4YOU@FIU
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- Perspectives on Black Motherhood and Health
- Quest Diagnostics Foundation Priority Communities
- TRIPLEP4YOU
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- The ACE Partnership for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination: Awareness of, Commitment to, and Empowerment of women scientists at FIU
- The Black Mothers Care Plan (BMCP)
- The Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health
- Triple P
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- Triple P4YOU@ FIU - 2019-2020 Power of Positive Parenting Program Group Lifestyles Obesity Prevention
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- UP Labs: Impact of an Adult Learning Program on College Going Perspectives and Re-enrollment Considerations