Media & Featured Presentations
PRIISE Lab World AIDS Day Series Part 1
Dr. Derek Dangerfield II examines how HIV prevention science can move beyond one-size-fits-all approaches to better address the realities and needs of Black sexual minority men. This session highlights how targeted, culturally congruent interventions can improve relevance and enhance prevention outcomes.
PRIISE Lab World AIDS Day Series Part 2
Dr. Derek Dangerfield II explores how age, developmental transitions, and cumulative social experiences shape health and quality of life across time. Using a life course framework, the webinar highlights critical periods, linked lives, and human agency as key concepts for understanding health outcomes. Special guests Drs. Ricky Bluthenthal and Terrell Winder respond with insights regarding how age, identity development, and contexts collectively influence long-term health trajectories, with implications for research, policy, and intervention design.
PRIISE Lab World AIDS Day Series Part 3
In this final webinar, Dr. Derek Dangerfield introduces sexual epidemiology as a developing interdisciplinary field focused on understanding sexual health as a population process shaped by behavior, relationships, and systems. The session bridges epidemiologic methods with social theory, community-engaged research, and ethical inquiry to expand how sexuality is measured and studied in the public health discipline. Emphasis is placed on integrating networks, pleasure, and agency into population health research and on charting future directions. Special Guest Dr. Debra Furr-Holden responds with key insights to help advance the evolving field of sexual epidemiology.
Psychometric Testing of a Brief Social Support Measure among Black Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting.
Washington, D.C., November 4th, 2025
Dr. Dangerfield highlights the utility of a brief measure to study a core socioecological concept in targeted studies among a key population.
Identifying Effective Recruitment Strategies to Engage Black Sexual Minority Men Living With HIV
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, San Francisco, CA. March 11th, 2025Dr. Dangerfield presents key findings from NIH-sponsored digital cohort feasibility study of 1,000 Black SMM living with HIV
A Scripted, PrEP-Using Peer Change Agent Improves Perceived HIV Risk and PrEP Willingness Among Black Sexual Minority Men Quickly
National LGBT Health Conference, Atlanta, GA. August 16th, 2024Dr. Dangerfield presents preliminary findings from NIH-sponsored pilot intervention called POSSIBLE showing promise for HIV prevention among Black sexual minority men.
Getting Intersectionaly Bare for Research & Praxis: Conducting Autoethnography to Reflect on Barriers to PrEP for Black Gay and Bisexual Men
Intersectionality Training Institute Research Salon. February 13th, 2024Dr. Dangerfield discusses findings from autoethnography that reflect on barriers to PrEP for HIV prevention and professional considerations for culturally congruent, peer-based interventions.
Us Helping Us Deeper Dives Episode
Us Helping Us, People Into Living, Inc. Research. Instagram Live, November 9th, 2022Dr. Dangerfield shares insights about monkeypox, PrEP, and sexual health misinformation post-COVID-19.
Refining POSSIBLE: A Multicomponent Intervention to Increase HIV Risk Perceptions and PrEP Initiation Among Black Sexual Minority Men.
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Vancouver, Canada. November 2022Dr. Dangerfield discussed key findings from formative research of 12 focus groups with Black sexual minority men to refine intervention. Overall, Black SMM held dissonant attitudes between their sexual behaviors and HIV risk, perceiving their risks as "low.” Themes indicated that that self-monitoring sexual behaviors using a mobile app-based diary is feasible but could trigger internalized stigma and that an acceptable peer change agent should be a “future self” for them to aspire to. Findings were used to refine pilot test POSSIBLE in a single-group intervention, expected to be published in 2024.
Improving Provider Attitudes in Caring for Black MSM
Interview with Contagion Infectious Diseases. November 2019Dr. Dangerfield discusses barriers to HIV treatment and prevention services and ways that clinicians can build better relationships with Black sexual minority men.