Addressing equity in research participation incentives
June 2021 Last month, faculty and research staff from the School of Public Health, IRWG, and other research teams and organizations sent an open letter to the Office of the Vice President for Research with more than 380 signatures to advocate for equity in incentive payments for human research subjects. The university currently offers several ...
IRWG awarded $1.2M grant to launch research education mentoring program for undergraduate students
June 1, 2021 The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) received a five year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and implement an innovative academic and research mentoring program for undergraduate students across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. The Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program, ...
Empowering the Love Her Collective: Participatory research with and for transgender women of color
May 2021 In 2019, Professor Kristi Gamarel (Public Health) was awarded a Transgender Health and Empowerment seed grant from IRWG for a participatory research project to enhance and sustain the Love Her Collective, which is a community-academic partnership with the Trans Sistas of Color Project (TSoCP). The Love Her Collective seeks to understand and address ...
Health Coverage and Care for Transgender People — Threats and Opportunities
Nearly two million American adults identify as transgender, many of whom seek gender-affirming care such as hormone treatment or surgeries. Gender-affirming care can be lifesaving: improving mental health, general well-being, and reducing the risks of suicide and transphobic violence. However, access to such care varies based on income and insurance coverage. In a December Perspective article for ...
How I Spent My Summer at IRWG
by Tuğçe Kayaal In summer 2020, I worked as a graduate student research assistant for IRWG’s multidisciplinary gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment project. In my academic research, I explore various forms of gender-based violence in different historical settings with a focus on the Middle East. This assistantship was my first job in which I had ...