Avery Everhart
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Geographic access to gender-affirming care (in multiple countries) through surveys, quantiative analysis and GIS
Applying intersectionality theories to empirical social scientific and health sciences research
Medical geography involving field work and community-based participatory or participatory action research
If you are interested in working with me, please contact me directly. Be advised I will expect you to have clear alignment with my research areas.
At this time, I am only interested in and have capacity for students who either a) have experience (including personal lived experience) in working with transgender, two-spirit, and gender diverse communities b) have a background in feminist theory and are interested in critical data studies and/or critical GIS or c) have a well-defined project for a doctoral thesis on which I could advise that involves bridging theory (critical race, feminist, queer, trans, etc.) with social scientific, empirical research.
Students who come from physical geography, geomatics, environmental research, or a more positivist GIS background should only approach me for supervision if they are looking to incorporate critical theory and participatory approaches to their work. I am not the supervisor for students who are looking to do physical geographical fieldwork, or spatial modeling work without a critical human component.
Due to volume of inquiries, I will only reply if there is strong overlap in your background/interests and my own.
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Publications
- How Do Prescribing Clinicians Obtain Consent to Initiate Gender-Affirming Hormones? (2023)
Transgender Health, 8 (6), 526-533 - Mapping Community-Engaged Implementation Strategies with Transgender Scientists, Stakeholders, and Trans-Led Community Organizations (2023)
Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 20 (3), 160-169 - Measuring Geographic Access to Transgender Hormone Therapy in Texas: A Three-step Floating Catchment Area Analysis (2023)
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 45 - (2022)
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) - ‘I'm not interested in research; i'm interested in services': How to better health and social services for transgender women living with and affected by HIV (2022)
Social Science and Medicine, 292 - Bones without Flesh and (Trans)Gender without Bodies: Querying Desires for Trans Historicity (2022)
Hypatia, 37 (4), 601-618 - Considerations for transgender population health research based on US national surveys (2022)
Annals of Epidemiology, 65, 65-71 - Construction and validation of a spatial database of providers of transgender hormone therapy in the US (2022)
Social Science and Medicine, 303 - Ethnoracial inequities in access to gender-affirming mental health care and psychological distress among transgender adults (2022)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57 (5), 963-971 - Gender affirming hormone therapy dosing behaviors among transgender and nonbinary adults (2022)
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) - SCIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE REQUIRES METHODOLOGICAL RIGOR (2022)
Pediatrics, 150 (6) - Transgender data collection in the electronic health record: Current concepts and issues (2022)
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 29 (2), 271-284 - Classroom walls and city hall: Mobilizing local partnerships to advance the sustainable development agenda (2021)
Sustainability (Switzerland), 13 (11) - "In transition: ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of transgender populations." A roundtable discussion (2018)
Reproductive health matters, 26 (52), 1490624 - Intimate partner violence among self-identified queer victims: Towards an intersectional awareness in scholarship and organizing surrounding gender-Based violence (2013)
Advances in Gender Research, 18 (PARTA), 67-88
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