David Rivera, PhD

David is trained as a scientist-practitioner and is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT). His program of research focuses on addressing sexual and gender minority (SGM) health disparities among people of color (POC) through an intersectional health psychology lens. More specifically, his work examines factors that shape engagement with emerging HIV biomedical prevention strategies while also investigating how social and structural determinants of health and lived experiences shape mental and physical health.