Kelly Taylor, PhD, MS, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in AIDS prevention at the University of California San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Her primary research interests are in research capacity building in low resource settings, health disparities, and psychosocial determinants of health in developing countries, particularly, the role of health seeking behavior among key populations at risk for HIV. She is also interested in the treatment of HIV and other chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Dr. Taylor’s emphasis is in Sub-Saharan Africa, and she has worked professionally in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa. Her current projects include designing and implementing HIV bio-behavioral surveillance studies in Ghana and evaluating implementation of health information systems in Mozambique.

• HIV prevalence, engagement in care, and risk behavior among trans women, San Francisco: Evidence of recent successes and remaining challenges.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2022 Chiu I, Leathers M, Cano D, Turner CM, Trujillo D, Sicro S, Arayasirikul S, Taylor KD, Wilson EC, McFarland W
• Real World Feedback: How Well Did the Virtual Training Academy Prepare California's COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce?
  Frontiers in public health 2022 Westfall M, Forster M, Golston O, Taylor KD, White K, Reid MJA, Dorian A, Prelip ML, Shafir S
• Health Coaching Across the Stages of Vaccine Readiness and Action: A Practical Guide for Public Health Nurses.
  American journal of public health 2022 Harris OO, Taylor KD, Maher A, Willard-Grace R
• Experiences and factors associated with transphobic hate crimes among transgender women in the San Francisco Bay Area: comparisons across race.
  BMC public health 2021 Gyamerah AO, Baguso G, Santiago-Rodriguez E, Sa'id A, Arayasirikul S, Lin J, Turner CM, Taylor KD, McFarland W, Wilson EC, Wesson P
• Justice in access to the outdoors
  Parks Stewardship Forum 2021 Taylor KD, González J, Razani N
• Stigma, discrimination, violence, and HIV testing among men who have sex with men in four major cities in Ghana.
  AIDS care 2020 Gyamerah AO, Taylor KD, Atuahene K, Anarfi JK, Fletcher M, Raymond HF, McFarland W, Dodoo FN
• Supportive interventions to improve retention on ART in people with HIV in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.
  PloS one 2018 Penn AW, Azman H, Horvath H, Taylor KD, Hickey MD, Rajan J, Negussie EK, Doherty M, Rutherford GW
• Critique and lessons learned from using multiple methods to estimate population size of men who have sex with men in Ghana.
  AIDS and behavior 2015 Quaye S, Fisher Raymond H, Atuahene K, Amenyah R, Aberle-Grasse J, McFarland W, El-Adas A, Ghana Men Study Group
• Explanatory models of hypertension among Nigerian patients at a University Teaching Hospital.
  Ethnicity & health 2012 Taylor KD, Adedokun A, Awobusuyi O, Adeniran P, Onyia E, Ogedegbe G
• International travel among HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men, San Francisco, USA.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2011 Taylor KD, Raymond HF, Truong HM, Ick T, Le B, Rive J, McFarland W
• An overview of cardiovascular risk factor burden in sub-Saharan African countries: a socio-cultural perspective.
  Globalization and health 2009 BeLue R, Okoror TA, Iwelunmor J, Taylor KD, Degboe AN, Agyemang C, Ogedegbe G
• African Americans and participation in clinical trials: differences in beliefs and attitudes by gender.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2006 BeLue R, Taylor-Richardson KD, Lin J, Rivera AT, Grandison D
• Racial disparities in sense of community and health status: implications in community-based participatory interventions targeting chronic disease in African Americans.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2006 Belue R, Taylor-Richardson KD, Lin JM, McClellan L, Hargreaves MK
• Improving cardiovascular disease prevention and management in Africa: issues to consider for the 21st century.
  Ethnicity & disease 2003 Madu EC, Richardson KD, Ozigbo OH, Baugh DS