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Tara McKay, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Dr. Tara McKay, PhD (she/her), is a sociologist and demographer who studies a range of questions related to health, health disparities, and health policy. Her research examines the social and policy contexts that shape health over the life course, primarily among LGBTQ+ populations in the US and African contexts. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field of LGBTQ population health, policy, and aging. Her work has been cited 2000+ times and engaged with by academic colleagues writing from institutions in over 35 countries. Her research has been supported by over $2.6 million in grants as Principal Investigator from the National Institutes of Health and several smaller awards as Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator from the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Commonwealth Foundation totaling over $1.5 million. She was recently featured on the PBS Aging Matters series (episode: Aging with Pride, June 2022). PBS also produced an 2:30 minute special focusing on the findings of her research (Aging Matters: How Discrimination Can Physically Age You).

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