Sabrina R. Cluesman, PhD, LCSW
New York State Psychiatric Institute - Postdoctoral Fellow, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health
Education
PhD, Social Work, New York UniversityMSW, Social Work, Florida State University
BA, Sociology, University of North Florida
Research Interests
PrEP, transgender populations, youth and emerging Adults, health equity, HIV, mental health, substance use, intersectionality BIO
Sabrina Cluesman’s (she/they) research interests are centered on achieving health equity for transgender and gender expansive populations. They focus on how intersectional stigma—specifically compounded racism, homophobia, and transphobia—affects engagement with health, mental health, and substance use services, including the HIV prevention and care continua. She is interested in developing, implementing, and evaluating multi-level interventions that address intersectional stigma within service settings, specifically focusing on its impact on trans and gender expansive populations.Before joining the HIV Center, Dr. Cluesman spent almost 20 years in direct clinical practice, primarily working for JASMYN, a queer and trans youth center in Jacksonville, FL. There, she was able to work with incredible colleagues to co-create the agency’s first case management, patient navigation, and clinical services, and develop their status neutral Sexual Health Clinic. These experiences inspired their career in research aimed at addressing the very real barriers to care the young people at JASMYN experienced at multiple levels.
Publications
Recent
Cluesman SR, Gwadz M, Cleland CM (2025).
Intentions to use PrEP among a national sample of transgender and gender-expansive youth and emerging adults: Examining gender minority stress, substance use, and gender affirmation
AIDS and Behavior [Epub 2025 Jan 17]. doi: 10.1007/s10461-025-04613-1.
Intentions to use PrEP among a national sample of transgender and gender-expansive youth and emerging adults: Examining gender minority stress, substance use, and gender affirmation
AIDS and Behavior [Epub 2025 Jan 17]. doi: 10.1007/s10461-025-04613-1.
Filippone P, Serrano S, Campos S, Freeman R, Cluesman SR, Israel K, Amos B, Cleland CM, Gwadz M (2023).
Understanding why racial/ethnic inequities along the HIV care continuum persist in the United States: A qualitative exploration of systemic barriers from the perspectives of African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV
International Journal for Equity in Health, 22 (168), 168. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01992-6. PMCID: PMC10466874.
Understanding why racial/ethnic inequities along the HIV care continuum persist in the United States: A qualitative exploration of systemic barriers from the perspectives of African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV
International Journal for Equity in Health, 22 (168), 168. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01992-6. PMCID: PMC10466874.
Filippone P, Serrano S, Gwadz M, Cleland CM, Freeman R, Linnemayr S, Cluesman SR, Campos S, Rosmarin-DeStefano C, Amos B, Israel K (2023).
A virtual pilot optimization trial for African American/Black and Latino persons with non-suppressed HIV viral load grounded in motivational interviewing and behavioral economics
Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1167104. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1167104. PMCID: PMC10205984.
A virtual pilot optimization trial for African American/Black and Latino persons with non-suppressed HIV viral load grounded in motivational interviewing and behavioral economics
Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1167104. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1167104. PMCID: PMC10205984.
Cluesman SR, Gwadz M, Freeman R, Collins LM, Cleland CM, Wilton L, Hawkins RL, Leonard NR, Silverman E, Maslow CB, Israel K, Ritchie A, Ory S (2023).
Exploring behavioral intervention components for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV with non-suppressed HIV viral load in the United States: A qualitative study
International Journal for Equity in Health, 22 (1), 22. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01836-3. PMCID: PMC9886533.
Exploring behavioral intervention components for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV with non-suppressed HIV viral load in the United States: A qualitative study
International Journal for Equity in Health, 22 (1), 22. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01836-3. PMCID: PMC9886533.
Gwadz M, Serrano S, Linnemayr S, Cleland CM, Cluesman SR, Freeman RM, Kellam K, De Stefano C, Israel K, Pan E (2022).
Behavioral intervention grounded in motivational interviewing and behavioral economics shows promise with Black and English-speaking Latino persons living with HIV with unsuppressed HIV viral load in New York City: A mixed methods pilot study
Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 916224. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.916224. PMCID: PMC9522600.
Behavioral intervention grounded in motivational interviewing and behavioral economics shows promise with Black and English-speaking Latino persons living with HIV with unsuppressed HIV viral load in New York City: A mixed methods pilot study
Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 916224. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.916224. PMCID: PMC9522600.
Notable
African American/Black and Latino adults with detectable HIV viral load evidence substantial risk for polysubstance substance use and co-occurring problems: A latent class analysis
AIDS and Behavior, 25 (8), 2501-2516. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03212-0. PMCID: PMC7937776.
Gwadz M, Cleland CM, Freeman R, Wilton L, Collins LM, Hawkins R, Ritchie AS, Leonard NR, Jonas DF, Korman A, Cluesman S, He N, Sherpa D (2021).
Stopping, starting, and sustaining HIV antiretroviral therapy: A mixed-methods exploration among African American/Black and Latino long-term survivors of HIV in an urban context
BMC Public Health, 21 (1), 419. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10464-x. PMCID: PMC7912958.
Gwadz M, Campos S, Freeman R, Cleland CM, Wilton L, Sherpa D, Ritchie AS, Hawkins RL, Allen JY, Martinez BY, Dorsen C, Collins LM, Hroncich T, Cluesman SR, Leonard NR (2021).
Black and Latino persons living with HIV evidence risk and resilience in the context of COVID-19: A mixed-methods study of the early phase of the pandemic
AIDS and Behavior, 25 (5), 1340-1360. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03177-0. PMCID: PMC7873114.
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