My research focuses on public health, implementation science, health equity, HIV prevention, and racialized, anti-trans violence using qualitative methods and coincidence analysis. Below is a selection of books, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly publications.
Featured Books
Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women’s Roles in Anti-Trans Violence
2025 — Rowman & Littlefield
Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent understandings of anti-trans violence and argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.
Sexuality Social Justice
Becky Anthony, Jayleen Patterson, & alithia zamantakis
2025 — Press Books
Sexuality Social Justice emphasizes the notion that all people, regardless of their sexual and gender identities, sexual health status or related behaviors, deserve equitable access to societal opportunities and equalities. An open access edited volume, this text is the perfect reader to use in your sexualities courses!
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Implementation strategies and adjunctive interventions for HIV testing and linkage-to-care in the United States: a systematic review
Implementation Science Communications (2026)
James L. Merle, Amelia E. Van Pelt, Olutobi A. Sanuade, Timothy Levengood, McKenzie Swan, Ana Michaela Pachicano, Alithia Zamantakis, Emmanuel Tetteh, Justin D. Smith, Virginia McKay, Artur L. N. Queiroz, Juan Villamar, Corinne H. Miller, Dennis H. Li, Brian Mustanski & Nanette Benbow
Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States depends on expanding HIV testing and rapidly linking people to care. However, methods to improve testing and linkage-to-care are inconsistently described and often conflate health system–level implementation strategies with recipient-directed adjunctive interventions. We conducted a systematic review to map, classify, and synthesize these approaches and their outcomes.
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