PROGRAM
The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to announce an urgent discussion on LGBTQIA+ healthcare. After decades of sustained progress, the LGBTQIA+ community is facing unimaginable healthcare policy and legal setbacks—in a mounting crisis with a particular impact on transgender health. This international panel will draw on their experiences to help us frame the current crisis, and strategize ways forward.
Markus Bidell has over 30 years of experience teaching and supervising graduate counseling and doctoral clinical neuropsychology CUNY students. They are a national and international clinician, consultant, researcher, speaker, and author focusing on LGBTQIA+ health inequalities. Dr. Bidell was the 2014-2015 Regent’s Fulbright Scholar and developed the LGBT-Development of Clinical Skills Scale, an assessment widely used in national and international healthcare research.
Nigel Sherriff is Professor of Public Health & Health Promotion at the University of Brighton, and Director of the Centre for Transforming Sexuality & Gender. His research interests are driven strongly by a social justice agenda, along with a collaborative and participatory approach to research. A Consultant to the Council of Europe in the field of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression & Sex Characteristics, his programme of research includes the health and social inequalities experienced by LGBTQIA+ populations, HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections, health systems research, and parenting.
Barbara E. Warren is Senior Director for LGBT Programs and Policies in the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Mount Sinai Health System, in New York City, where she leads Mount Sinai’s implementation of LGBTQ+ culturally and clinically competent health care. She is Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is faculty in the UME, GME and MPH programs. Dr. Warren previously served as Distinguished Lecturer and Director for the Center for LGBT Social Science and Public Policy at Hunter College.
Ann Zumwalt directs gender and sexual diversity content at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She is an award-winning anatomist educator with numerous current and former leadership roles in the medical school curriculum and faculty development initiatives. She is also a leader in training science trainees as biomedical educators and is a former Board member of the American Association for Anatomists. Her research examines how medical education practices impact trainees’ care for sexual and gender minority patients, with a particular focus on the role of educators.
Erin Mayo-Adam (moderator) is the Director of the LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House, an associate professor in the Political Science Department, and a member of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Faculty and Curriculum Committee. She is the author of Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation and has published in numerous academic outlets, including the Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy. Her research is situated in the fields of American politics, law and society, and political theory and bridges scholarship on social movements, interest groups and public policy, intersectionality, gender and sexuality, and migration and labor politics.
