A5065607379- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Family Support in Illness
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Sex work and related issues
University of British Columbia
2024
University of Michigan
2022-2024
University of Southern California
2018-2022
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
2022
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
2021
Abstract There are over 1 million transgender people living in the United States, and 33% report negative experiences with a healthcare provider, many of which connected to data representation electronic health records (EHRs). We present recommendations common pitfalls involving sex- gender-related collection EHRs. Our leverage needs patients, medical providers, researchers optimize both individual patient efficacy reproducibility EHR population-based studies. also briefly discuss adequate...
While much of the transgender health literature has focused on poor outcomes, less research examined how trans people find reliable information on, and actually go about accessing, gender-affirming healthcare. Through qualitative interviews with creators technologies, that is, technologies designed to address problems face, we found digital have become important tools for proliferating access care related information. We technologists often employed different processes creating their but...
This paper presents results of a research priority setting process focused on trans women living with and affected by HIV across Canada. It features data from semi-structured interviews focus groups conducted diverse group 76 in five urban centers the country how they have navigated health social service programming within their geographic context. The structure types services. Respondents offered simple, yet creative ways to address barriers vital services based individual collective...
Abstract Gender-affirming hormones have been shown to improve psychological functioning and quality of life among transgender nonbinary (trans) people, yet, scant research exists regarding whether why individuals take more or less than prescribed. Drawing on survey data from 379 trans people who were prescribed hormones, we utilized multivariable logistic regression models identify factors associated with hormone-dosing behaviors content analysis examine the reasons for dose modifications....
Many approaches in biomedical informatics (BMI) rely on the ability to define, gather, and manipulate data support health through a cyclical research-practice lifecycle. Researchers within this field are often fortunate work closely with healthcare public systems influence generation capture have access vast amount of data. informaticists also expertise engage stakeholders, develop new methods applications, policy. However, research policy that explicitly seeks address systemic drivers would...
There are over one million transgender people living in the United States and 33% report negative experiences with a healthcare provider, many of which connected to data representation electronic health records (EHRs). We present recommendations common pitfalls involving sex- gender-related collection EHRs. Our leverage needs patients, medical providers, researchers optimize both individual patient efficacy reproducibility EHR population-based studies. also briefly discuss adequate additions...
This roundtable discussion is the result of a research symposium entitled In Transition: Gender [Identity], Law & Global Health where participants took up challenge to engage with question: What will it take ensure sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) transgender populations across globe? The barriers overcome are fierce, include not only lack access services insurance but also stigma discrimination, harassment, violence, violations at every turn. Transgender people must course lead...
This roundtable discussion raises and responds to the question: What can be learned from academic local government partnerships advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? We draw on several years of cooperation between Office Mayor Los Angeles (CA, USA) institutions how best integrate United Nations’ SDGs into policy. Stakeholders this project give voice varying perspectives across roles—as city officials, partners, graduate undergraduate students—in case SDG implementation. The article...
Abstract In 2011, a 5,000-year-old “male” skeleton buried in “female” way was discovered by an archaeological team just outside of modern-day Prague. This article queries the impulse to name such discovery as evidence transgender identity, and bodies, increasingly ancient past. To do so, it takes up work Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers means push back against impetus discoveries “transgender” order shore legitimacy contemporary trans identity. Each these three...
Multiple consent models exist for initiating gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT). Our study aim was to examine the variety of approaches utilized by clinicians.Online and in-person recruitment clinicians involved in care undertaken from June 2019 through March 2020. Participants completed an online survey.Of 175 respondents, 148 prescribed GAHT. Sixty-one (41.2%) adults only, 11 (7.4%) minors 76 (51.4%) minors. Of those who adults, more than half (n=74, 54.4%) a written model, one-fourth...
This preprint is a response to recent article in Pediatrics by Turban et al. “Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents the United States” highlights methodological theoretical shortcomings of their approach analysis.
While the extant literature has established that transgender people face significant barriers to accessing healthcare, no studies date have offered an explicitly spatial analysis of their access trans-specific care. This study aims fill gap by providing a gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) using Texas as case study. We used three-step floating catchment area method, which relies on census tract-level population data and location for healthcare facilities quantify within specific...
In their first monograph Stef Shuster offers us a bridge between the more thoroughly studied decades of mid-twentieth century to contemporary manifestation transgender medicine in era evidence-based medicine. Much has changed since, and indeed many barriers accessing trans-specific have been lifted. However, some disputes that figure centrally US health system remain unresolved continue shape how trans people navigate biomedical landscape. history recent past, ways present, situate ongoing...