Kirsty A. Clark, PhD, MPH, has won the 2023 annual Rosalind Franklin Society Award in Science for the Journal of Correctional Health Care as the lead author for “Developing the “Oppression-to-Incarceration Cycle” of Black American and First Nations Australian Trans Women: Applying the Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice Framework,” published in February 2023. This annual award recognizes outstanding research and published work of women and underrepresented minority scientists, physicians, and engineers.
Informed by the Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice (IRTHJ) framework, the study drew upon lived experiences of Black American and First Nations
Australian trans women to develop a conceptual model demonstrating how interlocking forces of oppression inform, maintain, and exacerbate pathways to incarceration and postrelease experiences. This study represents a novel application of the IRTHJ framework that seeks to name intersecting power relations, disrupt the status quo, and center embodied knowledge in the lived realities of the women in the study.
Kirsty A. Clark, Annette Brömdal, Tania Phillips, Tait Sanders, Amy B. Mullens, and Jaclyn M.W. Hughto are credited as authors on the article. Dr. Kirsty A. Clark is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist. She serves as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society. Dr. Clark also serves as
an Associate Director of the Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy. She has a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.
The article is available to subscribers of the Journal of Correctional Health Care.
