Dr. Sari L. Reisner, ScD, MA (he/him) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is a core faculty member in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH) at the University of Michigan, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Trained as a social and psychiatrist epidemiologist, Dr. Reisner’s research focuses on understanding and mitigating health inequities for underserved populations, particularly in mental health and substance use, HIV infection, and healthcare access and quality outcomes. Dr. Reisner brings deep expertise in LGBTQ+ health and transgender and gender diverse population health, community-engaged research methods and peer-delivered interventions, cohort study and clinical trial design, and social determinants of health. His work utilizes a “participatory population perspective” (Reisner et al., Lancet, 2016) to work “with” not “on” communities to promote health equity. He is an Affiliated Research Scientist and Director of Transgender Health Research at The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health advancing health equity research through academic-community partnerships.
Dr. Reisner is PI of multiple research investigations funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and others in domestic and global contexts. He has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and led a chapter in the WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, the preeminent guidelines for healthcare of transgender people globally. Dr. Reisner was appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) as a Committee Member to conduct a national consensus study on the health of sexual and gender minorities which was published in 2020. In 2022, he became an elected Board Member for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). He is a founding Associate Research Editor of the PubMed-indexed journal Transgender Health.
