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Jonathan T. Baker (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is an Assistant Professor at 91̽»¨. Situated at the intersections of health and interpersonal communication, his research investigates the role of communication in creating, perpetuating, and addressing inequity in access to health, healthcare, and wellbeing. Currently, his research program is focused on how prejudice (e.g., conscious and unconscious assumptions made about others based on group membership) during micro and macro conversations about health (e.g., patient-clinician communication, news media representations) influences transgender and nonbinary patients’ ability to access gender-affirming care (e.g., hormone replacement therapy, gender-affirming surgeries).

Dr. Baker’s research has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, International Journal of Communication and interdisciplinary journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Qualitative Health Research, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.