Sari L. Reisner, MA

Fenway Health and Harvard School of Public Health
The Fenway Institute
1340 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
USA 02215

Biographical Sketch: Sari Reisner is on Faculty as an Associate Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is currently Co-Investigator on a multisite R01 (Boston and Chicago) testing the efficacy of an HIV risk reduction intervention with transgender male-to-female youth (PIs: R. Garafalo, M. Mimiaga). He is also a third year doctoral student in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, studying social and psychiatric epidemiology. Reisner’s primary research interests are (1) developmental and social determinants of mental health across the life course, especially among lesbian, gay, bisexual populations; (2) implications of mental health risk and resilience for physical health outcomes, particularly HIV/AIDS and cancer; (3) application of new methodologies to study the health of marginalized populations; and (4) national and global transgender health. He is a member of the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) sexual orientation and gender working group at Children’s Hospital (PIs: B. Austin and M. Rosario), where he works as a Research Associate, investigating disparities in health by sexual orientation and gender expression. He has co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented his research nationally and internationally at scientific conferences. He is a founding member of the Transgender Research Group at the National Center for Population Research in LGBT Health (PI: J. Bradford). Reisner earned a Master’s degree from Brandeis University and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

Papers:
3303.0 Quantitative research in adult transgender: A conceptually-informed review 4115.0 Stigma, syndemics and HIV risk in transgender women 4126.0 Comparing in-person and online recruited respondents in the national transgender discrimination survey: Implications of data collection methods for transgender health research in the u.s