Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health We’ve come to the end of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace University. This has been a very life-changing experience, for which I am truly grateful. Being in the room with so many experts that have and are currently making groundbreaking changes inContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 2: Community-based research is still important”
Category Archives: Conferences
#BWLBGTI Day 2 Post-Lunch: Revisiting sexual health
Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health After lunch at day 2 of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace is all about sexual health. Historically this would have been the bulk of such a conference as this. As most of us know, pathology-focused research on homosexuality and gender diversity, along with theContinue reading “#BWLBGTI Day 2 Post-Lunch: Revisiting sexual health”
#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 1: The IOM Report
Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health Back at Baldwin Wallace for the last day of the LGBTI Health Research Conference and the morning is being spent on very detailed analysis of the Institute of Medicine‘s National Institutes of Health-commissioned 2011 report “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and TransgenderContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 1: The IOM Report”
INTERSECTIONALITY REDUX AND REVISED: DAY 3 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH
Herukhuti, Ph.D., M.Ed. Professor, Goddard College Founder and CEO, Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality “Race and ethnicity—Concepts of community, traditional roles, religiosity, and cultural influences associated with race and ethnicity shape an LGBT individual’s experiences. The racial and ethnic communities to which one belongs affect self-identification, the process of coming out, available support, theContinue reading “INTERSECTIONALITY REDUX AND REVISED: DAY 3 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH”
Conference reflections: Challenges in Data Collection
E. Shor, MPH WI Population Health Service Fellow at UW-Madison Blogging from the LGBTI Health Research Conference One of the sections today was entitled “LGBTI Health: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Intersex Data at Population and Clinical Levels,” and in this talk, four awesome presenters discussed a myriad of data collectionContinue reading “Conference reflections: Challenges in Data Collection”
The Master’s House: Day 3 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH
Herukhuti, Ph.D., M.Ed. Professor, Goddard College Founder and CEO, Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s the house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threateningContinue reading “The Master’s House: Day 3 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH”
NAMING AND CLAIMING LEGACY: DAY 2 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH
Herukhuti, Ph.D., M.Ed. Professor, Goddard College Founder and CEO, Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality (His)stories like our first lovers can be very seductive when we engage them from the place of nostalgia and memory. What we remember or don’t, the highlights and the gaps in memory tell us so much about the person(s) engagedContinue reading “NAMING AND CLAIMING LEGACY: DAY 2 AT THE CONFERENCE ON LGBTI HEALTH RESEARCH”
Putting the I in LGBTQI
E. Shor, MPH Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellow through UW-Madison Blogging Live from: the LGBTI Health Research Conference This has been a jam-packed day so far and it is only half over at the LGBTI Health Research Conference. There have been speakers addressing data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity,Continue reading “Putting the I in LGBTQI”
#BWLGBTI Day 2: Perfect time, perfect place
Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health As I continue into the second day of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace University, it struck me as pretty powerful that the BW’s president Robert Helmer opened the first day of seminars with the words “this is the perfect time and the perfect placeContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 2: Perfect time, perfect place”
Baldwin Wallace presenting first LGBTI health conference with class
Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” It’s become a mantra I’ve come to live by. It is the starting of and building upon conversations that matter that truly leads to change. This mantra isContinue reading “Baldwin Wallace presenting first LGBTI health conference with class”
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