Dr. Ayden Scheim

Biography

Ayden Scheim is a Senior Scholar in Public Policy at the Williams Institute at UCLA. His research employs intersectional participatory approaches to address health and social inequities affecting sexual and gender minority populations globally. He has led national community-based research surveys on transgender health and human rights in India and Canada, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Scheim leads evidence synthesis and measurement research, focusing on the metrics of interpersonal and structural stigma. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health. Scheim received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Western Ontario, where he was awarded the Vanier Trudeau Foundation graduate scholarships. He holds a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Public Health at UC San Diego, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. His publications are forthcoming in prominent journals such as Social Science & Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Lancet Public Health.

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