Jacob Donald Gordon

Jacob Gordon serves as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Nursing. Dr. Gordon is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and community-engaged social work researcher dedicated to tackling mental health disparities within the LGBTQ+ community through innovative digital interventions.

Dr. Gordon completed post-doctoral training as a NIMH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health & Wellbeing. Here, Dr. Gordon has honed a translational skill set aimed at optimizing social media usage among LGBTQ+ youth. His work focuses on improving the ability of LGBTQ+ youth to harnessing the positive aspects of social media while mitigating the negative experiences commonly encountered online. 

PhD: University of Pittsburgh 2022 (Social Work)

MSW: Washington University in St. Louis 2018

BA: University of New Mexico 2016

LGBTQ+ Mental Health Disparities and Equity
Social Media Use
Digital Interventions
Human-centered Design
 

2022-2024 T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, , Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

Social Media, Mental Health, LGTBQ+, SGM

gordon93@ucmail.uc.edu