Ilan Meyer
Professor, Researcher, Williams Senior Scholar of Public Policy, Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
Ilan H. Meyer (Hebrew: אילן מאיר; born January 26, 1956) is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, author, professor, and a senior scholar for public policy and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA. He has conducted extensive research on minority identities related to sexual orientation, gender, race and ethnicity, drawing conclusions on the impact of social stresses on their mental health. Meyer was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (2010), the federal case that overturned California Proposition 8.
Career
Meyer holds a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences/Social Psychology from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He received his Master's from the New School for Social Research and his B.A. from Tel Aviv University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in Health Psychology at the Graduate Center at CUNY and as a NIMH Research Fellow in Psychiatry (HIV/AIDS) at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Meyer's academic background is in social psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and sociomedical sciences. For over a decade, he has focused specifically on the study of public health issues related to minority health. His areas of research include stress and illness in minority populations, in particular, the relationship of minority status, minority identity, prejudice and discrimination and mental health outcomes in sexual minorities and the intersection of minority stressors related to sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and gender.
Meyer developed a model of that describes the relationship of social stressors and mental disorders and helps to explain LGBT health disparities.
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