Tamara Taggart, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Primary Department
Prevention & Community Health
Affiliation
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Research Interests

Dr. Taggart's current projects examine the ways in which sociocontextual factors and cultural identity factors influence health behaviors among racial/ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents and emerging adults.

Keywords

health disparities, HIV/AIDS, social determinants of health, ecological systems theory, racial/ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged youth, substance abuse, health disparity,