Avery Everhart

Dr. Avery Everhart is a tenure track Assistant Professor of GIS, Cartography & Transformation in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia. She is a social and spatial scientist with expertise in transgender health and human rights, and intersectional approaches to addressing inequality.

Prior to joining the University of British Columbia, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Investigator in both the School of Information, and the Department of Health Behavior & Health Education within the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan working with Drs. Oliver Haimson and Kristi Gamarel, respectively.

She completed her PhD in the Population, Health, & Place program housed in the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and jointly administered by the departments of Sociology and Population & Public Health Sciences. While in PHP, her dissertation focused on access to transgender-specific medical care in the United States and had three aims: the creation of a national, spatially-enabled database of healthcare facilities that provide transgender medical care, the calculation of spatially explicit estimates of the size of transgender populations across the country, and the development of a quantitative method for measuring access to healthcare through a human rights framework with transgender-specific medicine as the case study. She concluded that the dearth of viable data and the insufficient methods for dealing with small populations on large geographic scales paints an incomplete portrait of transgender life. However, Everhart also suggests that this incomplete portrait necessitates methodological innovation that can lead to greater insight on not only trans communities, but other marginalized communities as well. Dr. John P. Wilson and Dr. Laura Ferguson were her co-chairs, and Dr. Juan De Lara, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and Dr. Arjee Restar were her remaining committee members.

She has published across disciplines on transgender and gender diverse communities including in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Social Science & Medicine, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Annals of Epidemiology, Transgender Health, Open Global Rights and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Dr. Everhart is also a Co-founder, Director of Finance, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and the Reviews Editor for their journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.

PhD, Population, Health and Place, University of Southern California
MA, Gender Studies, Queen’s University
BA, French, Women’s and Gender Studies, and BA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro