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James Huynh smiles at the camera, wearing a white striped jacket over a black turtleneck sweater, dark rimmed glasses and a dangling gold earring

James Huỳnh, Ph.D., M.A., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor
U-M Primary Appointment
Health Management and Policy
Dr. Huynh is a transdisciplinary public health researcher whose work engages the fields of health equity/health justice, Asian American and Vietnamese American studies, social movement studies, and queer and feminist studies. He brings queer and feminist theoretical lenses into public health research to investigate how LGBTQ communities of color sustain their everyday lives and well-being amid social and political death-making conditions (i.e., racial capitalism, patriarchy, and heterosexism). Dr. Huynh actively collaborates with queer and trans of color and anti-racist community-based organizations to explore how their activism and social movements can influence health policy. Dr. Huynh serves as the Research Committee Co-Chair for Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC), a grassroots organization that builds community and mobilizes intergenerationally primarily with LGBTQ+ Vietnamese Americans and their loved ones through research, education, and advocacy. He was formerly a Health Policy Research Scholar, a fellowship funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Fulbright U.S. Fellow.