Jae Sevelius, PhD

Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a licensed clinical psychologist. I lead several community-based research projects at the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health focused on leveraging data to develop culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and transgender–specific programs and interventions to promote holistic health and wellness among transgender people, with an emphasis on serving transgender women of color and those affected by HIV.
Education
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Bachelor of Science, - Psychology, University of Florida
PhD, - Clinical Psychology, University of Missouri
M.A., - Gender Studies, University of Missouri
Pre-doctoral internship, APA-accredited, - Counseling and Testing Center, University of Oregon
Honors and Awards
  • Outstanding Achievement Award, American Psychological Association, Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2018
  • Strengthening Team Science in California, CREDITS - Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science, 2017
  • Early Career Research Excellence Award - Behavioral Science, Gladstone Center for AIDS Research, UCSF, 2016
  • UCSF CORO Faculty Leadership, CORO, UCSF, 2015
  • Innovative Dissemination Award, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF, 2010
Websites
Publications
  1. Optimising HIV programming for transgender women in Brazil.
  2. Commitment, interpersonal stigma, and mental health in romantic relationships between transgender women and cisgender male partners
  3. Evidence for the Model of Gender Affirmation: The role of gender affirmation and healthcare empowerment in viral suppression among transgender women of color living with HIV
  4. From erasure to opportunity: a qualitative study of the experiences of transgender men around pregnancy and recommendations for providers.
  5. Challenges and opportunities for gender-affirming healthcare for transgender women in prison.
  6. Transgender Population Size in the United States: a Meta-Regression of Population-Based Probability Samples.
  7. The Transgender Women of Color Initiative: Implementing and Evaluating Innovative Interventions to Enhance Engagement and Retention in HIV Care
  8. The future of PrEP among transgender women: the critical role of gender affirmation in research and clinical practices.
  9. Transgender Women in Clinical Trials of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.
  10. Transgender women, hormonal therapy and HIV treatment: a comprehensive review of the literature and recommendations for best practices.
  11. PrEP adherence among trans women in Brazil-access needed for this key population - Authors' reply.
  12. 'You should build yourself up as a whole product': Transgender female identity in Lima, Peru.
  13. Acceptability and Feasibility of HIV Self-Testing Among Transgender Women in San Francisco: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study.
  14. Adult development and quality of life of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
  15. Barriers to healthcare for transgender individuals.
  16. 'I am not a man': Trans-specific barriers and facilitators to PrEP acceptability among transgender women.
  17. In the name of brevity: The problem with binary HIV risk categories.
  18. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in transgender women: a subgroup analysis of the iPrEx trial.
  19. Syndemics and gender affirmation: HIV sexual risk in female-to-male trans masculine adults reporting sexual contact with cisgender males.
  20. Transgender men who experienced pregnancy after female-to-male gender transitioning.
  21. Correlates of antiretroviral adherence and viral load among transgender women living with HIV.
  22. Barriers and facilitators to engagement and retention in care among transgender women living with human immunodeficiency virus.
  23. Racial/ethnic disparities in history of incarceration, experiences of victimization, and associated health indicators among transgender women in the U.S.
  24. Gender Affirmation: A Framework for Conceptualizing Risk Behavior among Transgender Women of Color.
  25. Transgender women of color: Discrimination and depression symptoms
  26. Transgender women of color: discrimination and depression symptoms.
  27. Preliminary support for the construct of health care empowerment in the context of treatment for human immunodeficiency virus.
  28. HIV/AIDS programming in the United States: considerations affecting transgender women and girls.
  29. Antiretroviral therapy adherence among transgender women living with HIV.
  30. "There's no pamphlet for the kind of sex I have": HIV-related risk factors and protective behaviors among transgender men who have sex with nontransgender men.
  31. Informing interventions: the importance of contextual factors in the prediction of sexual risk behaviors among transgender women.
  32. Student responsiveness to women's and gender studies classes: The importance of initial student attitudes and classroom relationships
  33. Men who have sex with transgender women: challenges to category-based HIV prevention.
  34. The effects of prior attitudes and attitude importance on attitude change and class impact in women’s and gender studies