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Tashuna Albritton
Tashuna D. Albritton, PhD, MSW
CUNY School of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine - Assistant Medical Professor
Email: talbritton@med.cuny.edu
Education
PhD, Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MSW, Social Work, Howard University
BA, Psychology and African American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
Adolescents, sexual and reproductive health, community health, health disparities, participatory methods, e-health interventions
BIO
Tashuna Albritton is an Assistant Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine. Dr. Albritton has extensive training in community-based HIV/STD behavioral intervention research, particularly with underrepresented minority adolescent and young adult populations, in both urban and rural communities. She uses a mixed-methods approach and participatory methods to examine individual risk for HIV/STDs, interpersonal relationships (parent-child, peer, and romantic partner relationships), and community factors that impact disparities in sexual and reproductive health among young and disadvantaged populations. Dr. Albritton is interested in using online and social media platforms in prevention intervention research.
Projects
Principal Investigator, A Facebook PrEP-HIV Intervention for Parents of Black and Latinx Young Men Who Have Sex with Men. Active
Principal Investigator, Empowerment-based HIV Prevention Interventions among Migrants Living in France: Exploring Tensions in Research Implementation and Identifying Best Practices. Active
Principal Investigator, Community-based Participatory Approach to Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Rural Black Female Adolescents and Young Adult Females in Alabama. Completed
Publications

Recent

Diaz VR, Albritton T, Katague M, Dancy V, Breny JM, Kershaw T (2023).
We are family: Effects of a relationship-strengthening prevention intervention on parenting behaviors among Black and Latino adolescent couples
Journal of Family Issues, 44 (7), 1796-1816. doi: 10.1177/0192513X211064860.

Albritton T, Munoz-Laboy M, Yokeeswaran U, Camacho-Rivera M (2022).
Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: The importance of social determinants of health in educating healthcare leaders
Journal of Medicine Access, 6, 1-3. doi: 10.1177/27550834221141766. PMCID: PMC9716050.

Rao S, Albritton T, Pina P, Liang Y, Taggart T (2022).
“You don’t want your parents knowing that you’re taking pre-exposure prophylaxis”: Pre-exposure prophylaxis stigma among Black and Latinx adolescents
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 33 (4), 395-405. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000313.

Pina P, Taggart T, Sanchez Acosta M, Eweka I, Munoz-Laboy M, Albritton T (2021).
Provider comfort with prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis to adolescents
AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 35 (10), 411-417. doi: 10.1089/apc.2021.0045. PMCID: PMC8665811.

Albritton T, Ford KL, Elsbernd K, Santodomingo M, Juzang I, Weddington P, Bull S (2021).
Implementing a peer advocate mental health digital intervention program for Ohio youth: Descriptive pilot study
JMIR Mental Health, 8 (4), e24605. doi: 10.2196/24605. PMCID: PMC8105753.

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