PhD student, Population Health Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kieran P. Todd (they/them) is a third-year Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Their work is attached to the ways in which health and disease are the embodied experiences of racialized gender(ing) and sex(ing) through which structures of cissexism and anti-Blackness impact health. Currently, their research focuses on understanding and addressing structural determinants, primarily racism and cissexism, that are created and sustained by the historical, geographical, political, and social contexts that influence masculine identity development and health for Black masculine people in those in relationship to them.
Representative Publications
- Javadi, D., Murchland, A. R., Rushovich, T., Wright, E., Shchetinina, A., Siefkas, A. C., Todd, K.P, Gitelman, J., Hall, E., Wynne, J.O., Zewge-Abubaker, N., & Krieger, N. (2023). Systematic review of how racialized health inequities are addressed in Epidemiologic Reviews articles (1979-2021): a critical conceptual and empirical content analysis and recommendations for best practices. Epidemiologic Reviews, mxad008.
- Todd, K.P., Thornburgh, S., Pitter, R., Gamarel, K.E., Peitzmeier, S. (2022) Masculine identity development in transmasculine individuals: a theory of gender and health. Social Science and Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100186.
- Todd, K., Peitzmeier, S. M., Kattari, S. K., Miller-Perusse, M., Sharma, A., & Stephenson, R. (2019). Demographic and behavioral profiles of nonbinary and binary transgender youth. Transgender health, 4(1), 254-261.