About:
Jen Goldberg RM, MPH, PhD
Jen (they/she) is a critical 2SLGBTQAI+ health and midwifery scholar, registered midwife, and postdoctoral research fellow at the McMaster Midwifery Research Centre in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University, funded through a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Jen’s research program takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to investigating 2SLGBTQAI health, drawing from public health, critical theory, midwifery, science and technology studies, and critical qualitative methodologies. Jen completed their PhD in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, funded through a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, where they also completed their MPH in Family and Community Medicine.
Jen’s research program investigates how queer, trans, and nonbinary midwifery and perinatal service-users experience health care services, to inform changes that result in affirming, celebratory, and transformational care. Their PhD study examined how queer, trans and nonbinary midwifery service-users experience cisheteronormativity within midwifery care. Jen’s postdoc study explores what gender-affirming language means to trans and nonbinary midwifery service-users using digital storytelling