SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative
The mission of the SOGIE Collaborative is to advance health equity for all communities, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.
Michelle WY Tam PhD, MA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Michelle Tam (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Public Health Science from the University of Toronto and her Masters in Gender Studies from Queen’s University. Tam’s research interests focus on LGBTQ+ communities, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) populations, healthcare access, sexual and reproductive health, technoscience, and both mixed-methods and qualitative research approaches. She is interested in research that advances reproductive justice, addresses intersecting inequalities, and ensures meaningful access to sexual and reproductive rights. As a graduate student, Tam’s work focused on family formation in Canada. She examined access to assisted reproductive technologies for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Her doctoral work has contributed to three constitutional challenges in Canada and included co-authoring expert affidavits. As a postdoctoral researcher, she is current involved in projects that aim to investigate reproductive health disparities among sexual minority and racial/ethnic minority populations.
Representative Publications
- Tam, M. W., Davis, V., Ahluwalia, M., Lee, R., Ross, L. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 on access to and delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare services in countries with universal healthcare systems: a systematic review. PLOS ONE, 19(2), e0294744.
- Tam, M.W., Andrade-Romo, Z., Goldberg, J. M. & Ross, L. E. (2024). Chapter 28: LGBTQ2S+ Individuals and Perinatal Mental Health Disorders. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- Vandermorris, A., Wigle, J., Tam, M., Kwong, I., Little, M., Polakovic, M., Dalal, S., Begun, S., Imran, M., Kosevic, A., Naya, A., Ray, M., Byman, H., Gammond, J., Rathwell, S., Wall, L., Toulany, A., McKinnon, B., Harrison, M. (2024). Application of youth-led participatory action research to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights during COVID-19: What can we learn? Health Promotion Practice. In Press.
- Vandermorris, A., Toulany, A., McKinnon, B., Tam, M. W., Li, Z., Guan, J., Stukel, T.A., Fu, L., Wang, X., Begun, S. and Harrison, M., & Brown, H. (2024). Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Adolescent Females During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatrics, 153(3), e2023063889.
- Tam, M. W. & Ross, L. E. (2023). Chapter 9: Taking a Reproductive Justice Lens in Public Health Policy: A Case Study of Family Law for LGBTQ2S+ Parents and Families. In: R. Monchalin (Ed.), Critical Perspectives in Public Health Feminisms. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press.
- Schneckenburger, S., Tam, M. W., Ross, L. E. (2023). Asexuality. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 195(47), E1627-E1627.
- Schneckenburger, S., Tam, M. W., Ross, L. E. (2023). Asexual competent practices in healthcare: A narrative review. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 1-21
- Tam, M. W., Pilling, M. D., MacKay, J. M., Gos, G., Keating, L., & Ross, L. E. (2022). Development and Implementation of a 2SLGBTQ+ Competent Trauma-Informed Care Intervention. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 1-25.
- Tam, M. W. (2022). Perverse Aliens: Tracing the Sexual and Gendered Genesis of Chinese Canadian Subjectivity. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 45, 194-214.
- Tam, M. W. (2021). Queering reproductive access: reproductive justice in assisted reproductive technologies. Reproductive Health, 18(1), 1-6.