Previous Education
MSW, Social Work, University of Maryland School of Social Work
BA, Criminal Justice, The George Washington University
Accomplishments
Tural Mammadli is a doctoral candidate who has authored and co-authored 17 published articles on health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ and other minoritized communities in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Social Science and Medicine and the International Journal of Transgender Health. He has also presented over a dozen abstracts at numerous academic conferences including the Society for Prevention Research and the American Public Health Association. In 2024, Tural received the UMSSW’s Dissertation Grant Award to conduct his dissertation study, titled "Patterns in Minority Stress Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary Persons of Color: Correlation with Health and Intimate Partner Outcomes."
Since starting his PhD education at UMSSW, Tural has won several awards: UMB Founder's Week Student of the Year (2023), the Donna Harrington Fellowship Award (2022), the New Investigator Panelist Award (2022) from the National Hispanic Science Network, and The Early Career Preventionist Network Award from the Society for Prevention Research (2022).
Research Interests and Experience
Tural’s research is focused on addressing health disparities among LGBTQ+ communities globally through an interdisciplinary approach informed by fields of psychology and public health. Particularly, he is interested in mental health and substance use related vulnerabilities and healthcare experiences of transgender and gender non-binary persons, with the aim of developing and implementing community-driven interventions that target modifiable factors contributing to health vulnerabilities.
Since 2023, Tural has been a member of the research team of Darren L. Whitfield, PhD, MSW, an associate professor, working on projects aimed at improving the mental, sexual, and substance use related health of LGBTQ+ persons. Of note, Tural currently serves as the project coordinator for Project Transcendence, a mixed-methods pilot intervention study aimed identifying factors that influence Black transgender women’s involvement with the PrEP continuum. Between 2020 and 2023, Tural was a member of the research team of Nalini Negi, PhD, MSW, associate professor, working on projects related to health and wellbeing of marginalized immigrant communities.
Teaching Interests and Experience
Tural's teaching interest include among others, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Social Work Research Methods, Quantitative Data Analysis, LGBTQ Mental Health and Substance Use, and Social Determinants of Health. He has previously served as a teaching assistant in undergraduate and graduate Criminal Law course in the George Washington University Department of Sociology and the Human Behavior and the Social Environment course in the UMSSW. Tural has also served as an adjunct instructor at UMSSW in the Spring and Fall of 2024, teaching the SOWK 645: Human Behavior and the Social Environment course to MSW students.
Selected Publications
Mammadli, T., Mack, L.J.M.*, Deng., Y.*, Betz, G., Hong, C., Runge, Z., Giovanni, T., Kamugisha, S.ϕ, DeForge, B., & Whitfield, D.L. (2025). Substance use among transgender and nonconforming youth living in the U.S.: A systematic review. Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118330.
Mammadli, T., Call, J., Whitfield, D. L., Holloway, B. T., & Walls, N. E. (2024). Understanding harms associated with gender identity conversion efforts among transgender and nonbinary individuals: The role of preexisting mental well-being. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2024.2333531
Mammadli, T., Whitfield, D., & Call, J. (2024). Gender Identity Conversion Efforts as a Source of Minority Stress Among Transgender and Nonbinary Persons Living in the U.S.: Correlation with Wellbeing and Proximal Stressors. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00955
Mammadli, T., & Hong, C. (2024). Substance Use and Misuse Among Sexual and Gender Minority Communities living in former Soviet Union Countries: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Sexual Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2024.2303517
Mammadli, T., Siegel, J., & Negi, N. (2023). Examining differences in substance use outcomes and related correlates among transfeminine and transmasculine adults using the 2017 New York State Patient Characteristics Survey. Substance Use and Misuse, 58 (13), 1668-1677. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2023.2238305