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Dr. Adam has an extensive record of working towards gay and bisexual men’s sexual health alongside a wide range of community and academic partners. Specifically, he has sought to apply principles of community-based research into work on HIV prevention and issues of living with HIV. Previously, he focused on gay and lesbian movements, documenting how…

My health research encompasses two broad intersecting areas of interest. The first is the application of discursive approaches to the study of social interaction. The second involves critical analyses of public health and health care discourse, from explicit anti-oppression frameworks. My past research has focused on the substantive areas of HIV/AIDS, sexual health, substance use,…

Experience in health disparities in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans populations; HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, sexual and reproductive health; analysis of large population-based public health data sets; methodological work in measuring sexual orientation and gender identity in health research.

The health of gay and bisexual men marginalized by age, race/ethnicity, HIV status and socioeconomics; including issues of mental health, health disparities, body image, resiliency, childhood sexual abuse, coming out, racism, aging with HIV; Online Internet usage for sex, community and health information; syndemic health issues for queer men.

My doctoral research examined the relational experiences of queer women partnered with transsexual men. Among the findings were the ways in which systemic transphobia added to relational stress.

Previously, I worked on the project Impacts of Criminal Prosecutions for HIV Exposure and Transmission on People Living with HIV. Before that, I was doing research on homophobia and legal repression against gay people. Currently, my research focuses on suicide prevention without an LGBT2SQ focus.

Resiliency and sexual minority youth Social determinants of health for multiethnic sexual minority youth (MSMY) Impact of clinical and outreach programs on SMY Program fidelity and implementation

HIV AIDS education Anti-Homophobia In Black Caribbean Communities Street Outreach Aids Work; Community based study of LGBT gang involved and incarcerated youth; HIV & Black Male Criminalization Incest; Mental Health & Black Gay Men;

Principal Investigator. “Exploring and enhancing access to in home health services for LGBT communities”. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health – Open Call Operating Grant. Co-Principal investigator: Dr. Judith MacDonnell, Co-investigators: Dr. Theresa Knott, Dr. Jane Aronson, Dr. Shari Brotman, Mr. Tim Pauley, Ms. Loralee Gillis.

I was a member of a research group that studied gay and bisexual men’s awareness of prostate health issues, including prostate cancer risk factors and treatment options. This work was sited in the United States. More recently, I helped conduct a study of single and coupled lesbian mother’s support networks.

Although there has now been extensive research done on lesbian and gay step-families, much of the literature has focused on the psychological well being of the children involved (Lassiter, Dew, Newton, Hays, & Yarbrough, 2006). Another recent direction of research has compared lesbian and gay step-families to heterosexual step-families. More specifically, how this family composition…

Principal Investigator. “Cultural Representations of Gender in Psychiatric Narratives.” Social Science and Humanities Research Council – Insight Grant. Co-investigators: Dr. Lori Ross, Ms. Meg Gibson, Dr. Juveira Zaheer.

MaBwana Black men’s study (co-principal investigator)

Co-Investigator. “Examining pathways to effective depression treatment for sexual and gender minority women in Ontario.” Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health in partnership with ECHO: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario. Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Lori Ross, Dr. Leah Steele.

I have published research in the areas of: sexual orientation and cancer screening, high risk health behaviors in lesbian and bisexual women (cigarette smoking and alcohol use), health-related quality of life in female-to-male transgender people, and risk behaviors for HIV in male-to-female transgender people.

I have a background in research and clinical practice with LGBT homeless youths with an emphasis upon sex trade-involved homeless youth. I also have experience in research and practice with LGBT persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Locally, through support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), my work has concentrated on facilitators…

Interdisciplinary, critical feminist, anti-oppression and participatory policy approaches, and my public health nursing background have shaped my qualitative research with LGBT2SQ communities across the lifespan. Graduate studies focused on minority and LGBT2SQ health/education. Collaborated on several projects with community researchers. 1) Masters of Education thesis (2001):

I study race, masculinity, and gender relations in urban school communities from a queer of colour perspective. Past projects have focused on the experiences of queer youth of colour in urban schools.

Project Affirmation – surveyed and conducted interviews and focus groups on the health care and social service needs of sexual minorities across Ontario. Doctoral Dissertation – ‘Social Policy and the Equitable Provision of Health Care and Social Services to Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals’ – a qualitative comparative analysis of Canada, the UK and USA utilizing…

My experience related to LGBT health has focused on HIV/AIDS. I was the founding staff person of the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange and served on its board for a number of years. In the early 1990s I served as an advisory committee member for the HIV/AIDS programme of the Toronto Counselling Centre for Lesbian…

I initially focused on sexual and relationship functioning in LGBT2SQ and heterosexual individuals, and have recently moved on to a broader scope of this work, one that focuses on social support, mental and physical health, degree of outness, and psychosexual variables in couples and individuals.