Jack Turban

Jack Turban MD MHS is an assistant professor of child & adolescent psychiatry at The University of California San Francisco and affiliate faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, where he is the founding director of the Gender Psychiatry Program.

His research focuses on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth, particularly as these topics relate to public policy. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry, The American Journal of Public Health, and The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, among others. His research has been cited in major court cases regarding the civil rights of transgender people in the U.S., in state legislative debates around the country, and in the United Nations’ independent expert report on conversion therapy. He is co-editor of the textbook Pediatric Gender Identity: Gender-affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.