August 2016
New in a Special Issue of Global Public Health on MSM
January 2017
Health insurance matters for American communities.
Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance Pre-ACA
Tara McKay and Stefan Timmermans.
Policy Brief available here.
June 2017
New in Health Equity
What an Emerging Trump Administration Means for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
Gilbert Gonzales and Tara McKay
Featured Work
Tara McKay is a sociologist and assistant professor of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Dr. McKay was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research examines the social, political and economic contexts that shape health and health policy in the US and Africa.
Areas of Expertise:
social determinants of health, US and global health policy, HIV/AIDS, international organizations, political economy of global public health, Africa, research methods
Email: tara dot mckay at vanderbilt dot edu
February 2017
New in a Special Issue of Critical African Studies
on LGBT rights and organizing in African contexts
Pursuing Social Justice through Public Health: Gender and Sexual Diversity Activism in Malawi
Ashley Currier and Tara McKay
December 2016
New in a Special Issue of Qualitative Sociology
on gender, sexuality and globalization:
Ready Rhetorics: Political Homophobia and Activist Discourses in Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda
Tara McKay and Nicole Angotti
June 2017
New in Health Affairs Blog
Two Things Health Researchers And Allies Can Do Right Now
Tara McKay and Gilbert Gonzales
July 2015
Dr. McKay, in collaboration with Claude Fischer at the University of California, Berkeley, receives three-year grant from National Institute of Aging to study LGBT social networks and health.