Mari Tarantino, BS, MS

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech
Research Associate, Transgender Health Research, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan

Mari Tarantino (she/her or any pronouns) is currently a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech studying Human Development and Family Science. She is also a research associate working with Dr. Sari Reisner at the epidemiology department at the University of Michigan. Her research primarily focuses on LGBTQ+ relationships at the intersection of feminist family science and public health. Mari earned her MS in Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech in 2023 and is currently working on her dissertation project which will focus on understanding how the romantic and sexual relationship contexts of transgender men can promote HIV prevention efforts. She was recently awarded the 2024 Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award through the LGBTQ Caucus at the American Public Health Association (APHA) for her abstract, “Gender non-affirmation from sexual partners: Psychometric evaluation and correlates of a briefstigma scale in a sample transgender and gender diverse community health center patients”.

Representative Publications

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2024.2323742
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321524000386
3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/27703371.2023.2212621

Contact

mtarantino@vt.edu