Skyler Jackson (he/him), PhD, is a psychologist and Assistant Professor of Public Health within the Social and Behavioural Sciences Department at Yale University. His clinical work and program of research focuses on the ways individuals' social identities (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation) shape their everyday lives and influence health and well-being. In particular, he is interested in how experiences of stigma-if not adequately coped with-interfere with psychological functioning and contribute to health disparities. Relying on a broad range of methodological approaches, Dr. Jackson's current projects aim to illuminate and alleviate complex, understudied manifestations of stigma across sexual, racial, and gender minority populations, including (a) intersectional stress among individuals holding multiple marginalized identities (e.g., LGBTQ+ people of color) and (b) border identity stress among populations holding identities that defy binary categorisation (e.g., multiracial people, bisexuals, nonbinary individuals). In addition to his work as an award-winning stigma researcher and culturally-responsive clinician, over the past 20 years, Dr. Jackson has worked as a trainer, speaker, and consultant working to reduce interpersonal bias and structural inequities in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings (e.g., hospitals, NGOs, clinical training programs, secondary schools).
