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.
Eli Godwin, EdM, MPH
PhD student, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Clinical Research Specialist I, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
Graduate Research Assistant, Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC), Vancouver, BC, Canada
Eli (he/him) started his professional life as a Harvard-trained (EdM 2001) educator, amassing nearly two decades of classroom and coaching experience before turning to public health in search of ways to more effectively address the systemic factors affecting adolescent students, particularly sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) youth. He earned his second master’s at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health (MPH 2022) while gaining research experience under the guidance of Drs. Brittany Charlton and Sabra Katz-Wise at Boston Children’s Hospital. Eli is now a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where he plans to leverage his education and public health knowledge to examine the pathways by which SGM youth learn terminology to describe themselves, how “Don’t Say Gay”-type policies attempt to interrupt these pathways, and the resulting impacts on both individual and collective SGM youth wellness. He also serves as a consultant and speaker regarding transgender issues and is a member of the Institutional Review Board at The Fenway Institute. In his non-academic time, Eli enjoys curling (“chess on ice”), skiing, and just about any other endeavor on frozen water.
Representative Publications
- Godwin EG, Moore LBM, Katz-Wise SL. “You always worry about what other people think”: Experiences of antitrans stigma among trans youth and their siblings in the Northeastern United States. Stigma and Health. Published online August 29, 2024. doi:10.1037/sah0000564
- Godwin EG, Moore LM, Sansfaçon AP, Nishman MM, Rosal MC, Katz-Wise SL. Experiences of cisgender youth with a transgender and/or nonbinary sibling. Family Process. 2024;63(2):1025-1045. PMID: 38171537. doi:10.1111/famp.12957
- Katz-Wise SL, Sarda V, Line EC, Marchwinski B, Budge SL, Godwin EG, Moore LBM, Ehrensaft D, Rosal MC, Thomson KA. Longitudinal family functioning and mental health in transgender and nonbinary youth and their families. Journal of Child and Family Studies. Published online December 21, 2023. doi:10.1007/s10826-023-02738-2 [doi.org]
- Streed CJ, Ben-Arieh A, Patel S, Godwin EG, McNair L. Ensuring equitable research participation: Explicit inclusion of sexual and gender minority populations. SGIM Forum. July 2022.
- Tabaac AR, Reynolds CA, Godwin EG, Katz-Wise SL, Charlton BM. Sexual minority men’s perspectives and experiences of adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention. Journal of Sex Research, 59(7), 886-896. doi:10.1080/00224499.2022.2053043 [doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu]
- Katz-Wise SL, Godwin EG, Parsa N, Brown CA, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Goldman R, MacNish M, Rosal MC, Austin SB. Using family and ecological systems approaches to conceptualize family and community-based experiences of transgender and/or nonbinary youth from the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 9(1), 21–36. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000442 [doi.apa.org].
- Katz-Wise SL, Boskey ER, Godwin EG, Thomson K, Post J, Gordon AR. “We’re moving in the right direction. Still a long way to go”: Experiences and perceptions of the climate for LGBTQ+ employees at a pediatric hospital. Journal of Homosexuality. 2021 Jun 11; 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1938468 [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
- Godwin EG, Moore LB M. Relationships with Siblings. In: Goldberg AE, Beemyn G, eds. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2021. DOI:10.4135/9781544393858 [doi.org]
- Charlton BM, Reynolds CA, Tabaac AR, Godwin EG, Porsch LM, Agénor M, Grimstad FW, Katz-Wise SL. Unintended and teen pregnancy experiences of trans masculine people living in the United States. International Journal of Transgender Health. 22:1-2,65-76. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2020.1824692 [doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu]