March Salon - Ayden Scheim
March 8, 2023

Salon Topic:
How Many Scales Do We Need? Intersectionality and Survey Measures

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Salon Guests:
Ayden Scheim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

Salon Description:
As intersectionality is increasingly adopted as a framework for quantitative health equity studies, survey researchers grapple with how to incorporate intersectionality frameworks and praxis in scale development and validation, data collection, and analysis. Informed by his ongoing research evaluating the Intersectional Discrimination Index, Dr. Scheim will start a conversation about conceptual, methodological, and ethical considerations for intersectionality-informed survey measures.

Guest Bio:
Ayden Scheim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia. He is a social epidemiologist who works with populations confronting stigma and oppression to understand and address the health impacts of inequitable social, policy, and healthcare environments. Along with Dr. Greta Bauer, he developed the Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) to measure experiences of discrimination along multiple axes of social identity and position in population health research. He is PI of a NIMHD-funded study to cognitively and psychometrically evaluate the InDI, in English and Spanish, among racially/ethnically and sexually diverse adults in the U.S.