IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds - Jack Turban, MD

Dr. Jack Turban is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Core Faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the founding director of UCSF’s Gender Psychiatry Program, which provides longitudinal mental health care for transgender and gender diverse youth and investigates the determinants of their mental health, with a focus on questions relevant to public policy and law.

His legal work includes expert witness testimony and amicus briefs in major federal and state cases concerning sexual and gender minority people, including the U.S. Supreme Court cases United States v. Skrmetti, Hecox v. Little, and Chiles v. Salazar. He is a frequent media commentator, with op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and other national outlets. He is author of the book Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity, which explores the science, medicine, and politics of transgender youth.

Dr. Turban earned his B.A. in neurobiology from Harvard University and his M.D. and M.H.S. from Yale School of Medicine. He completed his adult psychiatry training at MGH/McLean and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.