By Dr. Scout. Director, LGBT HealthLink at CenterLink We’ve gone to lot of places to train, but we especially love when we’re pulled out by people who are already doing their own organizing about LGBTQ health. That’s why it was such a pleasure to be able to do the opening plenary for the Inaugural MidwestContinue reading “Inaugural Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium Big Success”
Author Archives: Dr. Scout
When Love Wins, Health Wins
By Dr. Scout, Director of LGBT HealthLinkWe’re all cheering loudly over this morning’s decision to allow gay marriage across our land. This isn’t just a blow for equal rights, it’s a huge step forward for our health. Every public health student learns about this little thing called the Marriage Protective Hypothesis, it’s how we explainContinue reading “When Love Wins, Health Wins”
LGBT Community Centers Applaud Supreme Court for Helping Reduce LGBT Health Disparities
PRESS RELEASE June 25, 2015 For Immediate Release Contact: Dr. Scout, (954) 765 – 6024, scout@lgbtcenters.org Ft. Lauderdale, FL – This morning’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Obamacare is solid progress in the battle to reduce persistent LGBT health disparities. “LGBT people being chronically underinsured and uninsured is a fundamental piece of the patternContinue reading “LGBT Community Centers Applaud Supreme Court for Helping Reduce LGBT Health Disparities”
Sample Best Practices for LGBT/Priority Population Inclusion
I’m in DC today, meeting all day with the Surgeon General’s 50th Anniversary Report on Tobacco (aka #SGR50) Workgroup on Tackling Disparities. We’re going through an exercise now where we’re brainstorming best practices for priority population (pripop) programming on a few different metrics. We’re doing this to try to encourage more of the #SGR50 leadershipContinue reading “Sample Best Practices for LGBT/Priority Population Inclusion”
Farewell Dear Daniella
Scout, Ph.D. Director of LGBT HealthLink It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the departure of our beloved Daniella Matthews-Trigg from the HealthLink staff. Daniella was not only the person who has been the heart of the blog for at least the last year, but she’s been the glue that’s really been binding soContinue reading “Farewell Dear Daniella”
Building A Culture of Health in the LGBT Communities
Scout, Ph.D. Director LGBT HealthLink [The following is a transcript of a speech I gave at the LGBT Health Funding Summit on January 28, 2015. The transcript has been slightly edited for readability.] My name is Scout, and as many of you know, I’ve been working with HealthLink for about 9 years and in LGBTContinue reading “Building A Culture of Health in the LGBT Communities”
Missouri Coalition Pushes State to National Leadership on LGBT Health
Missouri might not top many LGBT people’s lists of great places to live, but after today you might want to rethink the charms of the Show Me State. For the last year a local coalition has been pushing adoption of LGBT-welcoming policies at hospitals. In this week’s release of HRC’s Healthcare Equality Index, Missouri zoomedContinue reading “Missouri Coalition Pushes State to National Leadership on LGBT Health”
New Mexico Convenes a Large LGBTQ Health Summit
Scout, Ph.D. Director of LGBT HealthLink This year’s Sexual and Gender Diversity Summit in New Mexico was all about health, tackling the topic: “New directions for LGBTQ health and wellbeing.” I had the pleasure of being invited to give a keynote and it was a packed house. Almost 200 people crowded into the University ofContinue reading “New Mexico Convenes a Large LGBTQ Health Summit”
Can You Help Your State Incl LGBT in Their 5 Yr Tobacco Plan? 2 Webinars Thu.
Scout, Ph.D. Director of LGBT HealthLink What’s our October focus? Glad you asked. All state departments of health are busy responding now to a once every five year chance for them to write a proposal for more federal tobacco money. And for the first time we’ve succeeded in making sure LGBT was mentioned as aContinue reading “Can You Help Your State Incl LGBT in Their 5 Yr Tobacco Plan? 2 Webinars Thu.”
Announcing Our New Name – LGBT HealthLink: The Network for Health Equity
Scout, Ph.D. Director of CenterLink’s Network for LGBT Health Equity If you’ve ever stumbled over our name, you are not alone. We originally designed the name of the Network for LGBT Health Equity to be crystal clear about who were were as we built awareness among state departments of health but as we all heard,Continue reading “Announcing Our New Name – LGBT HealthLink: The Network for Health Equity”
LGBT HealthLink, The Network for Health Equity 