Amaya Perez-Brumer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 283763 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amaya Perez-Brumer |
| NOMBRES | Amaya |
| APELLIDO | Perez-Brumer |
| FIRMA | PEREZ-BRUMER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2441-4358 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Wrong kind of queer
Interrogating the Effects of Technologies of Pregnancy Surveillance on Queer, Trans and Nonbinary Midwifery Service‐Users
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
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
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
Harm reduction gaps in sexualized drug use among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Colombia
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
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)
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
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
“We live at the crossroads”
From Trust to Skepticism
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
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”
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
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
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
Post-migration sexual health and pleasure among gay and bisexual venezuelan migrant men in Lima, Peru
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
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
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
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
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
Experiences of gender-based stigma and health care-related outcomes in the African region
Social, economic, and physical side effects impact PrEP uptake and persistence among transgender women in Peru
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
Safe Schools? Transgender Youth’s School Experiences and Perceptions of School Climate
Using a Two-Step Method to Measure Transgender Identity in Latin America/the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain
Transactional pathways of transgender identity development in transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and caregiver perspectives from the Trans Youth Family Study
Findings underscore the importance of assessing developmental processes among TGN youth as transactional, impacting both youth and their caregivers
It's not as good as the face-to-face contact
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the widespread adoption of virtual care-the use of communication technologies to receive health care at home. We explored the differential impacts of the rapid transition to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care access and delivery for gay, bisexual and queer men (GBQM), a population that disproportionately experiences sexual and mental health disparities in Canada. Adopting a sociomaterial theoreti…
Vaccines for all? A rapid scoping review of Covid-19 vaccine access for Venezuelan migrants in Latin America
Findings presented underscore the extreme complexity and associated variability of providing access to COVID-19 vaccines for Venezuelan migrants across Latin America. By querying the timely question of how migrants and specifically Venezuelan migrants access vaccinations findings contribute to efforts to both more equitably respond to COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics in the context of displaced populations. These are intersectional and e…
Exploring experiences of heterosexism and coping strategies among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in Swaziland
Social, cultural, and institutional processes which see heterosexuality as natural and universal discriminate against individuals who differ from this norm. This article draws on interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Swaziland to provide an enhanced understanding of the ways in which heterosexism operates in practice and impacts the sexual rights of LGBT communities in Swaziland, where same-sex practices are cri…
The anti-gender threat
Sexual Partnership-Level Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Lima, Peru
Mind the gap
Sampling strategies such as respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and time-location sampling (TLS) offer unique opportunities to access key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. Limited work has assessed implementation challenges of these methods. Overcoming implementation challenges can improve research quality and increase uptake of HIV services among key populations. Drawing from studies using RDS in Brazil and …
Reforzando las capacidades en investigación en informática para la salud global en la región andina a través de la colaboración internacional
To improve global health and the welfare of a population, skilled human resources are required, not only in medicine and health, but also in the field of informatics. Unfortunately, training and research programs specific to biomedical informatics in developing countries are both scarce and poorly documented. The aim of this paper is to report the results from the first Informatics Expert Meeting for the Andean Region, including, nine Latin Ameri…
Moderno Love
Sampling Methodologies for Epidemiologic Surveillance of Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Latin America
Using a Two-Step Method to Measure Transgender Identity in Latin America/the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain
State-level structural sexual stigma and HIV prevention in a national online sample of HIV-uninfected MSM in the United States
BACKGROUND: Stigmatizing social environments (of which 'structural stigma' is one component) negatively affect health-related outcomes. However, few studies have examined structural stigma related to sexual minority status as a risk factor for HIV outcomes among MSM. METHODS: In August 2013, members of a large MSM social and sexual networking site in the United States completed a survey about HIV-prevention practices. A previously validated compo…
Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in New World Monkeys in Peru
Manejar la Situacion”
Individual and Partner-Level Factors Associated with Condom Non-Use Among African American STI Clinic Attendees in the Deep South
Individual- and Structural-Level Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts Among Transgender Adults
This study assessed individual (ie, internalized transphobia) and structural forms of stigma as risk factors for suicide attempts among transgender adults. Internalized transphobia was assessed through a 26-item scale including four dimensions: pride, passing, alienation, and shame. State-level structural stigma was operationalized as a composite index, including density of same-sex couples; proportion of Gay-Straight Alliances per public high sc…
Transactional Sex Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Latin America
Objectives. We assessed factors associated with engagement in transactional sex among men who have sex with men recruited from one of the largest Internet sites for men seeking social or sexual interactions with other men in Latin America. Methods. We constructed multilevel logistic regression models to analyze factors associated with engagement in transactional sex in 17 Latin American countries in 2012. Results. Of 24 051 respondents, 1732 (7.2…
Inkwari
What is in a label? Multiple meanings of ‘MSM’ among same-gender-loving Black men in Mississippi
Men who have sex with men (MSM) and other same-gender-loving (SGL) men continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS, particularly among the Black population. Innovative strategies are needed to support the health of this community; however, public health efforts primarily approach MSM as a monolithic population erasing the diverse identities, practices, and sexualities within and beyond this category. To better understand diversity …
The trouble with ‘Categories’
This double Special Issue of Global Public Health presents a collection of articles that seek more adequately to represent sexual and gender diversities and to begin to rethink the relationship to HIV prevention and health promotion - in both the resource rich nations of the global North, as well as in the more resource constrained nations of the global South. Reckoning with the reality that today the global response to HIV has failed to respond …
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Perceived Source of Infection Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women (TW) Recently Diagnosed with HIV and/or STI in Lima, Peru
Mind the gap
Sampling strategies such as respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and time-location sampling (TLS) offer unique opportunities to access key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. Limited work has assessed implementation challenges of these methods. Overcoming implementation challenges can improve research quality and increase uptake of HIV services among key populations. Drawing from studies using RDS in Brazil and …
Social, structural, behavioral and clinical factors influencing retention in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) care in Mississippi
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a biomedical intervention that can reduce rates of HIV transmission when taken once daily by HIV-negative individuals. Little is understood about PrEP uptake and retention in care among the populations most heavily impacted by the HIV epidemic, particularly among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in the Deep South. Therefore, this study explored the structural, social, behavioral, and clinical factors that …
Transgender Youth Substance Use Disparities
Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Transgender Youth in California
Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating HIV Prevention and Treatment with Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Transgender Women in Lima, Peru
Transactional pathways of transgender identity development in transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and caregiver perspectives from the Trans Youth Family Study
Findings underscore the importance of assessing developmental processes among TGN youth as transactional, impacting both youth and their caregivers
Rethinking MSM, Trans* and other Categories in HIV Prevention
Marginalization and social change processes among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in Swaziland
Swaziland has among the highest national adult HIV prevalence globally. There is limited knowledge of HIV vulnerabilities and prevention engagement among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in the context of Swaziland's criminalization of consensual same-sex practices. This study explored social processes of marginalization to assess how they could potentiate HIV vulnerabilities and limit engagement in HIV prevention services. A…
Exploring experiences of heterosexism and coping strategies among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in Swaziland
Social, cultural, and institutional processes which see heterosexuality as natural and universal discriminate against individuals who differ from this norm. This article draws on interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Swaziland to provide an enhanced understanding of the ways in which heterosexism operates in practice and impacts the sexual rights of LGBT communities in Swaziland, where same-sex practices are cri…
Safe Schools? Transgender Youth’s School Experiences and Perceptions of School Climate
Social inequities and contemporary struggles for collective health in Latin America
As part of a planned series from Global Public Health aimed at exploring both the epistemological and political differences in diverse public health approaches across different geographic and cultural regions, this special issue assembles papers that consider the legacy of the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health (LASM-CH) movements, as well as additional examples of contemporary social action for collective health from the region…
Medicine (60 obras) · Psychology (45 obras) · Sociology (44 obras) · Public health (39 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (33 obras) · Transgender (33 obras) · Political science (32 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (30 obras) · Family medicine (27 obras) · Gender Studies (27 obras)