Tamara Taggart

Tamara Taggart, PhD, MPH, serves as the inaugural Perry N. Halkitis Endowed Chair for Advancing LGBTQ+ Public Health, Director of the Rutgers Institute for Scientific Excellence in Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Well-Being, and is an associate professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Taggart conducts socio-epidemiologic studies to examine the social-structural (e.g., neighborhoods, structural racism, and intersectional stigma) and cultural determinants of HIV-related health inequities and then uses community-based participatory research approaches to develop and implement interventions to reduce HIV risk and substance use among sexual and gender minorities.