Donté T. Boyd

Donté T. Boyd's research examines mental health, suicide risk, and HIV prevention among Black youth and Black sexual and gender minority men, with attention to how discrimination, family relationships, and community-level factors shape these outcomes. The work often uses concepts like intersectionality (how overlapping identities such as race, sexuality, and gender shape experiences) and syndemic theory (how multiple health problems interact and compound each other) to understand disparities in depression, suicidal behavior, and HIV testing/prevention (including PrEP, a medication used to prevent HIV). Studies draw on quantitative survey analyses as well as qualitative interviews with affected communities in the US and abroad.

Publication output grew substantially from 2017 to a peak around 2022, then has remained fairly steady at roughly 12-13 papers per year through 2025.

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