PhD, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
MSW, Columbia University

Professional/Research Interests

Gender, HIV, Immigration, Public Health and Policy, Sex/Sexuality, Race

Recent Publications

Articles

Hendrickson, Z. M., Bhaktaram, A. V., Wattree, J., Van Sluytman, L. G., Uzzi, M., Latkin, C., & Dayton, L. (under review). I wasn’t really welcome in that community: Place, intersectional stigma, and health among Black sexual minoritized men in Baltimore. Social Science & Medicine.

Martin Jones, V., Darrell, L., Helal, M. A.-A., Huynh, N., & Van Sluytman, L. G. (under review). Culturally responsive school-based interventions: A content analysis of evidence-based practices for adolescent mental health and behavioral wellbeing. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work.

Helal, M. A & Van Sluytman, L. G. (under review). Comparative Health Care Policy for Undocumented Immigrants: Evidence from United States, Germany, and Canada. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Rhodes, D., Geyton, T., Wilson, B., Archibald, P., & Van Sluytman, L. (2025). Under threat: An analysis of Black women’s reported anxiety during police encounters (Manuscript submitted for publication). Journal of Black Studies.

Torres, D., Nesbitt, J. M., Allen-Milton, S., & Van Sluytman, L. G. (2025). Meeting Sojourner at the intersection: Women of color living and aging with HIV. Healthcare, 13(11), 1280. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13111280

L. G. Van Sluytman, Rhodes, D.J., Nesbitt, J. & Allen-Milton, S. (2024) No Man is an Island: Resiliency among older African American men living with HIV. Social Work in Public Health. DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2024.2371966

Green, K., Dickins, D., Thurman, D. L. G. Van Sluytman (2024). The Disproportionate Use of Corporal Punishment on African American Children in U.S. Schools. Journal of African American Studies

Godinet, M. T., Burrage, R., Van Sluytman, L. G., Taiapa, J., & Vakalahi, H. O. (2023). Grandparenting Among Māoris of New Zealand: Reflecting on Meanings. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 38(1), 1-18.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Latkin C., & Smith, L. (2022). Constructing Taxonomies: Identifying Distinctive Class of HIV Support and Risk Networks among People who use drugs (PWID) and their Network Members in the HPTN 037 randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(12), 7205; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127205.

Ross, K., & Van Sluytman, L.G. (2022). Race-Based Trauma and Treatment Outcomes: An Examination of State Organizational Policies and Implications in Social Work Field Education. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 1-5.

Rhodes, D. J., Robinson, D. L., Archibald, P. C., & Van Sluytman, L. (2019). A decade's tale: Consent decrees and police use of disproportionate excessive force with communities of color. Advances in Social Work, 19(1), 217-238.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Latkin C., & Smith, L. (under review.) Constructing Taxonomies: Identifying Distinctive Class of HIV Support and Risk Networks among People who use drugs (PWID) and their Network Members in the HPTN 037 randomized controlled trial. AIDS & Behavior.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Torres, D. Coleman, D., McLeod, B. (2018) When they return. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. doi.org/10.1007/s41134-018-0070-7

L. G. Van Sluytman & Vakalahi, H. (2017). Our Immigrant Fathers: Reflecting on caregiving. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 23(1), 13-26.

L. G. Van Sluytman (2017). Oh Baltimore: Incarceration and Re-entry in Marginalized Communities. Critical Social Work 18(1), 25-45.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Ritz, A., Velazquez, L. (2016, Summer Edition). What about those left Behind? Social Work, Social Justice, Dignity and the LBG, Trans, and Cis Community. Maryland Social Worker, p. 3.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Spikes, P., Nandi, V., Van Tieu, H., Frye, V., Patterson, J., & Koblin, B. (2015). Ties that bind: community attachment and the experience of discrimination among Black men who have sex with men. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 3:1-14.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Torres, D. (2014) Hidden Or Uninvited? A Content Analysis of Elder LGBT Of Color Literature In Gerontology. Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 57(2-4), 130-160.

L. G. Van Sluytman, Braine, N., Acker, C.J., Friedman, S., & Des Jarlais, DC (2013). Migration Narratives: Expanding Methods to Examine the Interaction of Person and Environment among Aging Gay Men. Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 56(3), 219-236

Chapter
L. G. Van Sluytman & Sheppard, P (2016). Mobilizing From The Margins: Black people, Health and Environmental Justice. In P. Godfrey & D. Torres (Eds.) Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

L. G. Van Sluytman, Torres, D., & Kishore, A. (2015). That is so queer: Building a foundation for working with black Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals and their communities. In R.Wells Wilbon, A. McPhatter & H. Vakalahi (Eds.) Social work practice with African Americans in Urban Environments. New York, NY: Springer.

L. G. Van Sluytman (2014). Multiple Consciousness, Multiple Lives: Reconsidering Research with Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). D.W. Russell & C A Russell (Eds) Psychology of Prejudice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Issues. Nova Science Publishers.

L. G. Van Sluytman (2013). Microaggressions. In Encyclopedia of Social Work Online(ESWO). National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and Oxford University Press (OUP).

Electronic
L. G. Van Sluytman (2013). (Dis)parities and (In)visibility: Shifting The Perception of the Life Course of LGBT Elders of Color, Guest Editor, American Society on Aging (ASA)'s LGBT Aging Issues Network (LAIN) AgeBlog, Winter 2012-2013. Retrieved from http://www.asaging.org/blog/disparities-and-invisibilities-shifting-perception-life-course-lgbt-elders-color

Current Courses

• SOWK 701