Ivan Hsiao talks building Trans Health HQ and winning StartOut Demo Day
Thu Jun 26 2025
This episode features Ivan Hsiao, MPH (any pronouns), the Founder and CEO of Trans Health HQ, a digital health platform that improves the health of the transgender and gender-expansive community through education, care navigation, and systemic reform of healthcare institutions. Ivan also teaches the graduate seminar on transgender health at Harvard University, where they are an academic researcher.
Trans Health HQ has captured attention and accolades at places like Harvard University, Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts, and StartOut’s Demo Day, where they took home the first place and crowd favorite prizes.
Leading from a place of courage and strategy, Ivan is building a sustainable and community-led solution to address trans health equity in the face of 900+ anti-trans bills. Ivan shares how their background in life sciences and healthcare management consulting, DEI corporate strategy, and venture-backed entrepreneurship equipped them to lead Trans Health HQ, and reflects on the lengths they have gone to create community, find champions and seize every opportunity to build a brighter future for historically marginalized groups.
Curious about how Ivan is creating win-win situations for key healthcare stakeholders, so that people of all genders can access dignified, affirming healthcare?
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This episode features Ivan Hsiao, MPH (any pronouns), the Founder and CEO of Trans Health HQ, a digital health platform that improves the health of the transgender and gender-expansive community through education, care navigation, and systemic reform of healthcare institutions. Ivan also teaches the graduate seminar on transgender health at Harvard University, where they are an academic researcher. Trans Health HQ has captured attention and accolades at places like Harvard University, Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts, and StartOut’s Demo Day, where they took home the first place and crowd favorite prizes. Leading from a place of courage and strategy, Ivan is building a sustainable and community-led solution to address trans health equity in the face of 900+ anti-trans bills. Ivan shares how their background in life sciences and healthcare management consulting, DEI corporate strategy, and venture-backed entrepreneurship equipped them to lead Trans Health HQ, and reflects on the lengths they have gone to create community, find champions and seize every opportunity to build a brighter future for historically marginalized groups. Curious about how Ivan is creating win-win situations for key healthcare stakeholders, so that people of all genders can access dignified, affirming healthcare?