Senior Research Scientist of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The Trevor Project
About
Myeshia Price (she/they) is a senior research scientist at The Trevor Project. Dr. Price has more than fifteen years of experience in adolescent public health research, with a focus on sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ youth from an intersectional perspective. After completing their PhD in developmental Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research focusing on predicting early sexual behaviors during adolescence, they were an assistant professor at the State the University of New York at Old Westbury prior to taking a Postdoctoral research associate position at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR). Her primary research interest areas include developmental understandings of adolescent gender and sexuality and reducing LGBTQ youth mental health disparities with a particular focus on the role of protective factors.
Current Work:
Dr. Price's research explores suicide prevention in LGBTQ youth with a specific focus not only on how multiple identities intersect in such a way that may increase the risk for suicide but also on how some identities, or having multiple, might be protective.
Research Area(s):
- LGBTQ youth; suicide; mental health; transgender and nonbinary; protective factors
