Kenneth Mayer, MD

Boston, MA

Medical Research Director, Fenway Health and Professor, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health

Represented: Researchers

Kenneth Mayer, MD, is the Medical Research Director of Fenway Health, an FQHC in downtown Boston, and a Professor at Harvard's Medical School and School of Public Health, and an Attending Physician in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research has focused on the development of culturally tailored HIV treatment and prevention interventions for sexual, gender, racial, and ethnic minority patients, and on the conduct of community-based research. With input from community advisory boards, he has studied bio-behavioral interventions, as well as the use of electronic health records and computer-assisted patient interfaces to improve individual and community health. He is the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed publications, and has co-edited five academic textbooks, including: “The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases” (Academic Press) and “The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health” (American College of Physicians Press).

Mayer served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research from Fall 2015 - Spring 2018.