Dr. Ashley Lacombe-Duncan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Social Work, Core Faculty in the U-M Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities, Associate Director of the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research Collective and Adjunct Scientist at Women's College Research Institute in Toronto, Canada. She conducts community-based mixed-methods, qualitative, and quantitative research in two main areas related to advancing health equity: (1) understanding barriers to access to care, including HIV care, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) people; and, (2) developing/adapting, pilot testing and evaluating interventions to increase HIV care engagement among LGBTQ+ people living with HIV. Much of her work has been in collaboration with the amazing Trans Women HIV Research Initiative (TWIRI) team, which has focused on projects to advance health equity for trans women living with HIV across biomedical, clinical, and social science topics.
