Featured Investigator: Jessica Fish, PhD
Assistant Professor of Family Health and Wellbeing Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation Dr. Jessica Fish is a human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the health and well-being of sexual and gender minority (i.e., lesbian/gay, bisexual, and transgender) people and their families. Broadly, Dr. Fish studies the social and interpersonal factors that shape the development and health of sexual and gender minority youth and adults. Her overarching goal is to identify modifiable factors that contribute to sexual and gender minority health disparities in order to inform developmentally-sensitive policies, programs and prevention strategies that promote the health of sexual and gender minority people across the life course. |
Q: What are your current research interests? |
Q: Tell us about your career path – how did you end up where you are now? I know this is a long-winded answer, but I think it’s helpful for emerging scholars to see that the path towards a research career can be haphazard. In retrospect, I believe these experiences provided me with an interdisciplinary training background that lends itself quite well to conceptualizing and conducting research. |
Q: What organizational challenges have you faced? |
Q: What advice do you have for trainees and researchers who want to work in this area or are interested in applying for NIH funding? |
Q: Do you have any specific advice for working with and involving SGM populations in research? |
Q: Who inspires you? |
Q: Any final words of wisdom? |
This page last reviewed on December 16, 2021