JoAnne G. Keatley

JoAnne Keatley is a transgender woman who is internationally renowned for her work in service to transgender women that focuses on substance use, mental health, and co-occurring disorders.

She is Director Emeritus, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco. She directed and oversaw all aspects of the CoE’s scope of work, including leadership, sustainability, website implementation, funding, quality control and outreach to multiple organizations.

Ms. Keatley has extensive knowledge on issues of improving quality healthcare for inmate patients in the custody of the California Department of Corrections. During 1999-2005 she was the project director for the Health Studies for People of Color, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California in San Francisco.

Ms. Keatley was the Project Director for the Transgender Life Care (TLC), where she started a three- year mental health intervention project targeting transgender men and women. She developed a community team including Castro Mission mental health team, UCSF Psychiatrist, and a Psychotherapist to provide culturally competent mental health services to this underserved population.

Until 2017, she was the Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Transgender Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center, directing and overseeing a Special Project of National Significance: Enhancing Engagement and Retention in Quality HIV Care for Transgender Women of Color–Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.