Principal Investigator
Dr. Madina Agénor, ScD, MPH is the FRESH Study’s Principal Investigator and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute and leads the Sexual Health and Reproductive Experiences (SHARE) Lab. As a social epidemiologist, Dr. Agénor investigates health inequities in relation to multiple social positions and power relations—especially sexual orientation and heterosexism, gender and (cis)sexism, and race/ethnicity and racism—using an intersectional lens and a mixed-methods research approach. Specifically, she uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the structural and social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening and prevention among marginalized populations, especially sexual minority women, transgender and gender diverse young adults, Black women, and Black and other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people of color. You can learn more about Dr. Agénor and her work here.
Keosha Bond, EdD, MPH, CHES
Co-Investigator
Dr. Keosha T. Bond is a behavioral scientist and sexual health educator who has centered her work on the complex intersections of race, sexuality, social justice, and health disparities among individuals of marginalized genders. She is Assistant Medical Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at CUNY School of Medicine, a Faculty Fellow at Yale School of Public Health, and an affiliated- investigator at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at NYU.
John W. Jackson, ScD
Co-Investigator
Dr. John Jackson is Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research focuses on (1) developing methods to help identify, refine, and evaluate interventions to eliminate health and healthcare disparities and (2) developing methods to improve the transparency and conduct of observational studies and post-hoc analyses of clinical trials.
Megan Threats, PhD, MSLIS
Co-Investigator
Dr. Megan Threats is Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at Rutgers, Visiting Research Faculty at the Yale School of Public Health in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at New York University. Her research aims to leverage information and technologies to improve the health outcomes of sexual and gender minority communities of color and reduce the subsequent health disparities affecting these populations.
Nkiru Nnawulezi, PhD
Co-Investigator
Dr. Nkiru Nnawulezi is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Family Violence and is on the editorial board of the Community Psychology in the Global Perspective Journal. She is also a Research and Evaluation Advisor to the National Center on Domestic Violence, DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, National Innovation Service, and Ujima: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community. Her research examines the ecological factors that enhance equity within and across housing systems to improve the social and material conditions for survivors of gender-based violence who occupy multiply marginalized social identities.