Academic Publications

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  • Takenaka, B. P., Kirklewski, S. J., Griffith, F. J., Gibbs, J. J., Lauckner, C. K., Nicholson, E., Tengatenga, C., Hansen, N. B., & Kershaw, T. (2024). "It's another gay disease": an intersectional qualitative approach contextualizing the lived experiences of young gay, bisexual, and other sexual minoritized men in the United States during the mpox outbreak. BMC public health

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  • Lauckner, C., Takenaka, B. P., Sesenu, F., Brown, J. S., Kirklewski, S. J., Nicholson, E., Haney, K., Adatorwovor, R., Boyd, D. T., Fallin-Bennett, K., Restar, A. J., & Kershaw, T. (2024). Combined Motivational Interviewing and Ecological Momentary Intervention to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minority Cisgender Men and Transgender Individuals: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols

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  • Lawrence, T. J., Takenaka, B. P., Garg, A., Tao, D., Deem, S. L., Fèvre, E. M., Gluecks, I., Sagan, V., & Shacham, E. (2023). A global examination of ecological niche modeling to predict emerging infectious diseases: a systematic review. Frontiers in public health

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  • Takenaka, B. P., Lee, Y. J., Orakwue, K., Aaron, H., Reyna, K., & Putnam, N. (2023). Re-Imagining Public Health Education: Students' Perspectives and Considerations. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education

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  • Ellis, M. S., Kasper, Z. A., Takenaka, B., Buttram, M. E., & Shacham, E. (2023). Associations of Transactional Sex and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Treatment-Seeking Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder. American journal of preventive medicine

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  • Lee YCJ and Takenaka BP (2022) Extended reality as a means to enhance public health education. Front. Public Health

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Selected Forthcoming Work

Defining the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Through Transformative Critical Praxis (forthcoming)

Activity Space Mapping and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men in Small Cities and Towns in the United States (under review)

Spatiality of Alcohol, Drugs, and Sex Among Queer Men and Non-Binary Individuals Throughout COVID-19 (under review)

Hybridized Placemaking of Black and Brown Queer Men and Non-Binary Individuals (on going)

Triply Marginalized: HIV, Mpox, and COVID-19 (on going)

Toward Cancer Justice Futures for Queer and Trans Pacific Islanders (on going)