About
Kelsey Loeliger, MD, PhD, is a Complex Family Planning Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Her goals in research and advocacy include addressing social drivers of health and the overlap between reproductive injustice, gender-diverse health care, substance use disorders, incarceration, mental health, and interpersonal violence and trauma. In her current work, she seeks to better understand the impact of contraception use on gender dysphoria in gender-diverse individuals. She is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine and PhD from the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. She graduated from Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at UCSF. Her PhD dissertation research used statewide databases to track and ultimately improve HIV treatment outcomes for incarcerated individuals after their release from prison or jail.