Amaya Perez-Brumer

Biographic Data

ID283763
NAMEAmaya Perez-Brumer
GIVEN NAMESAmaya
FAMILY NAMEPerez-Brumer
SIGNATUREPEREZ-BRUMER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-2441-4358
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS84
TOTAL CITATIONS64
AUTHOR COUNT83
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Wrong kind of queer

    Open AccessMichelle W Tam, L E Ro et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Interrogating the Effects of Technologies of Pregnancy Surveillance on Queer, Trans and Nonbinary Midwifery Service‐Users

    Open AccessJennifer M Goldberg, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2026

    Queer, transgender and nonbinary (QTNB) people access midwifery services, yet little is known about their experiences of midwifery care. Our qualitative study used critical narrative inquiry to examine how QTNB midwifery service‐users in Ontario, Canada, experience cisheteronormativity in healthcare. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 14 participants, our analysis examines the effects of biomedicalisation on QTNB people who navigate these system…

  • Navigating sexual and reproductive health among Venezuelan women sex workers in Peru

    Open AccessMariangela Castro-Arteaga, Jacinthe Brisson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Migration to Peru from Venezuela has reshaped engagement in informal labour for many women who turn to sex work as a survival strategy amid legal precarity and systemic exclusion. Yet little is known about how migrant sex workers navigate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in this context. In 2023, we conducted 34 semi-structured interviews with Venezuelan migrant cisgender women sex workers living in Lima, Peru. Interviews explored migration t…

  • Transgender stigma

    Open AccessLynne D’Amico, Alfonso Silva-Santisteban et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Language…2026

    This study analyzes the discursive construction of transgender stigma in depictions of transgender people by the Peruvian press. It provides an important theoretical advancement establishing the press’ disapproving language actions (DLAs) as the nexus between social control and stigma. It connects sociolinguistics, speech act theory, media studies, and transgender research, leveraging the value of prior research informing the speech action of dis…

  • Perceptions of Buprenorphine With Naloxone Treatment and the Fear of Precipitated Withdrawal

    Open AccessRuth A Schmidt, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2026

  • Harm reduction gaps in sexualized drug use among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Colombia

    Open AccessJacinthe Brisson, Aarti Doshi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2026

    BACKGROUND: Sexualized drug use among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) remains underexplored in Latin America. This study investigated perspectives on sexualized drug use among GBM living with HIV in Colombia, including Venezuelan migrants, through a harm-reduction lens. METHODS: Between October 2024 and April 2025, we conducted semi-structured interviews with GBM living with HIV across Colombia. Thematic analysis was empl…

  • Seizing the opportunity

    Open AccessLoreto Fernández‐González, Anne-Emanuelle Birn et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Background In oncology, the standard of care (SoC) is rapidly evolving, and increasingly unaffordable, prompting both patients and providers to enroll in commercial clinical trials as a means to access the SoC. The experiences of trial participants and their providers in Latin America remain largely unknown. We report their experiences and relationships of care(giving) within the trial in a cancer center in Santiago, Chile. We examine how the gap…

  • Estamos Aqui (We Are Here)

    Open AccessJacinthe Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Deficit-based public narratives about migrants can be profoundly violent, (re)producing intersectional stigma and exacerbating harm for gay and bisexual migrant sex workers. Migration in Latin America has doubled since 1990, with millions of Venezuelan migrants resettling in neighboring countries like Colombia, where rising xenophobia is fueled by negative portrayals in media, research, and public discourse. Guided by the theoretical movement of …

  • Therapeutic equivalence, different stigma

    Open AccessJacinthe Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    Long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (LAI-ART) is an emerging HIV treatment whose social implications extend beyond its biomedical effects. To explore how LAI-ART is imagined in contexts where it is not yet available, we conducted 66 semi-structured interviews with gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Colombia. Guided by the concept of the social plasticity of pharmaceuticals - the capacity of medicines to acquire shifting social mean…

  • Migration status, discrimination, and recent sexually transmitted infection testing among South Asian gay, bisexual, and other queer men living in Canada

    Open AccessJoshun Dulai, Nathan Lachowsky et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • “We live at the crossroads”

    Open AccessAmaya Perez-Brumer, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

  • From Trust to Skepticism

    Aarti S Doshi, Sarah Naz-McLean et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2026

    Mass vaccination emerged as a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, greater attention is needed to understand the shifting dynamics of vaccine messaging amid rampant uncertainty across the United States, including its impact on vaccine uptake behaviors over time. Our study presented a unique opportunity to longitudinally explore how perceived uncertainties in COVID-19 vaccine messaging shaped vaccine uptake behaviors among…

  • Lifetime homelessness among young transgender women in Lima, Peru is associated with HIV vulnerability

    Open AccessDorothy Apedaile, Alfonso Silva-Santiesteban et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Transgender youth face disproportionately high rates of homelessness, which can increase vulnerability to HIV. In Peru, the incidence of HIV among transgender women has increased 19% since 2010 and young transgender women are a priority population for HIV prevention. We sought to estimate the proportion of young transgender women experiencing homelessness and associations between homelessness and HIV vulnerabilities. We recruited transgender wome…

  • “If I am here, it is because the system failed”

    Open AccessLoreto Fernández‐González, Gary Rodin et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    BACKGROUND: The pharmaceutical industry is a key global health actor given its crucial role in the development and testing of medicines. Within Latin America, Chile currently has the highest number of multinational commercial clinical trials per inhabitant, predominantly for oncological therapies. Insufficient attention has been paid to context-specific conditions that enable clinical trials' successful implementation in the Global South. In exam…

  • Accountability in global health systems

    Open AccessAndrea Bowra, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    Beginning in 1996, Purdue Pharmaceuticals (Purdue) knowingly mislabeled and mass marketed OxyContin (oxycodone), an opioid painkiller, catalyzing the opioid crisis which has been responsible for more than 600 000 deaths in and beyond North America. This case is an extreme example of how transnational pharmaceutical companies prioritize shareholder profits over public wellbeing. As such, the field of global health faces the critical challenge of b…

  • Parents’ interest in receiving sexuality education to inform a parent-focused intervention in Medellín, Colombia

    Jacinthe Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga et al.ARTICLESex Education2025

    Previous research has revealed young people’s interest in a sexuality education programme for parents in Colombia, citing parents’ lack of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge as a barrier to their own learning. Informed by this insight, this study aimed to: 1) assess parents’ interest in sexuality education for discussing SRH with adolescents; 2) explore preferred structures for the delivery of such education; and 3) identify the topic…

  • Extreme Weather Events and Linkages with HIV Vulnerabilities Among Young Sex Workers and Sexually Diverse Men in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessCarmen H Logie, Andie MacNeil et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

  • Post-migration sexual health and pleasure among gay and bisexual venezuelan migrant men in Lima, Peru

    Open AccessJacinthe Brisson, Juan Carlos Ramirez Tovar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025References: 7

    This paper explores how migration (re)shapes the sexual lives of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) from Venezuela now living in Lima, Peru. While global public health discourses have predominantly framed GBM migrant sexualities through narratives of risk, especially in relation to HIV, this study draws attention to the dynamic interplay between pleasure and vulnerability in post-migration sexuality. Based on five focus grou…

  • Complex decision-making of people's use of opioid agonist therapy during pregnancy

    Open AccessRuth A Schmidt, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 20

    Clinical guidelines strongly recommend that pregnant people with opioid use disorder be offered Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT); however, access to and retention in substance use services are influenced by a multitude of factors. We conducted 25 semi-structured qualitative interviews with pregnant and recently pregnant people who used opioids or OAT before their pregnancy. Participants were recruited from various health and social services, through …

  • Queer Tax

    Open AccessMichelle W Tam, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 18

  • Applying the Index of Vulnerability approach to understand water insecurity and other social-ecological factors associated with depression among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda

    Open AccessCarmen H Logie, Moses Okumu et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2024

    Water insecurity and other social-ecological factors may be associated with depression in low and middle-income contexts (LMICs). This is understudied among urban refugee youth in LMICs, who experience multiple forms of marginalization. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with a peer-driven sample of urban refugee youth aged 16–24 in Kampala, Uganda. We explored: the prevalence of depression (moderate, moderately severe); associations between s…

  • Design and pilot evaluation of a brief intervention to reduce transphobia and improve attitudes of government officials to address legal gender affirmation needs of transgender people in Peru

    Open AccessSari L Reisner, Amaya Perez-Brumer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Legal gender affirmation – legal name and gender marker change – is an important health-promoting health determinant for transgender people. In Peru, the state's failure to universally recognize transgender people’s legal identity limits standardized legal affirmation procedures, including the paucity of government officials trained in gender affirmation strategies. This project, in partnership with Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Ci…

  • Dynamics of intersectional and multilevel Covid-19 stigma across time

    Aarti S Doshi, Jacinthe Brisson et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2024

  • Experiences of gender-based stigma and health care-related outcomes in the African region

    Carmen H Logie, Valerie A Earnshaw et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2024

  • Social, economic, and physical side effects impact PrEP uptake and persistence among transgender women in Peru

    Open AccessSarah Naz-McLean, Sarah Naz‐McLean et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This research highlights the ways that physical, economic, and social side effects of PrEP can impact acceptability and persistence among trans women in Peru, amplifying and layering onto existing stressors including economic precarity. Understanding the unique experiences of trans women taking PrEP is crucial to informing tailored interventions to improve uptake and persistence