The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #42901

Jodi Sperber, MSW, MPH, John Snow, Inc., 44 Farnsworth Street, Boston, MA 02210, 617-482-9485, jsperber@jsi.com

Jodi Sperber, MSW, MPH is a consultant at John Snow, Inc. (JSI) in Boston, Massachusetts. She has conducted community-based research with LGBT populations including studies on access to health care services for transgender individuals in the greater Boston area, an evaluation of the Gay and Lesbian Youth Support (GLYS) training, a needs assessment of LGBT elders in Greater Boston, and a study of the health and social service needs of the LGBT community in Santa Clara County, California. She currently works on a variety of projects including the GLBT Health Access Project, GLYS, and planning the transgender track of the upcoming LGBTI Health Summit In Boulder, CO. She has also been involved in advocating for greater inclusion of LGBT indicators on survey instruments on a state, local, and national level. She is interested in access to health care and social services, with a particular focus on LGBT individuals. Before coming to JSI, Jodi worked at JRI Health in Boston, doing program planning and counseling for LGBT adolescents.

Learning Objectives:

• • Discuss the multiple barriers to accessing transhealth care including provider’s attitudes and systemic erasure via categories and practices that are gender based.
  • Recognize the challenges to conducting and constructing research among transgender populations
  • Become familiar with future trends (including activist and grassroots strategies) for the provision of transhealth care in the US.

Keywords: Access to Health Care, Gender

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.