Ayden Scheim is a Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute, a think tank on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy at UCLA Law. His research uses intersectional and participatory approaches to address health and social inequities facing sexual and gender minority populations globally. He also conducts evidence synthesis research, including leading systematic reviews for forthcoming World Health Organization transgender health guidelines. Dr. Scheim was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia. He holds adjunct and affiliate positions at Unity Health Toronto and Western University. He completed his Ph.D. (2017) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University and his postdoctoral training (2017-2019) in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego, supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship.
