Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Judith Leitch

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work

Email: jeleitch@uncg.edu

Appointed through Spring 2025

Judith Leitch uses her PhD in social work and her 10+ years of practice as a therapist to inform her work, which centers on reducing health and mental health disparities for people who identify as sexual and gender minority. Her practice-informed research program focuses on infusing the research world with the lived experiences of stakeholders, as well as ensuring that practice-focused research has clear translational pathways so that it can benefit people. Her current projects include research on sexual and gender minority people’s experiences of health and mental health in North Carolina and proposed interventions to improve mental health practitioners’’ work with this community. She was recently awarded the Linda A. Carlisle Faculty Research Grant for 2021-2022 and her work is available on the National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority Research website.