Corey Prachniak serves as Chair of LGBT HealthLink’s Steering Committee and is an attorney focused on health policy, as well as a current Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard University. Corey tweets @CPrachniak. Wow. When the LGBT HealthLink Steering Committee decided to host an online “E-Summit” to bring together people interested in LGBT health, we didn’t know if itContinue reading “HealthLink E-Summit: One Day Down, One to Go!”
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Join Us for our LGBT Health E-Summit, October 15th and 16th
Corey Prachniak serves as Chair of LGBT HealthLink’s Steering Committee and is an attorney focused on health policy, as well as a current Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard University. Corey tweets @CPrachniak. For the past few months, I have been working with our fabulous steering committee and staff to put together a two day virtual conference, or “E-Summit,”Continue reading “Join Us for our LGBT Health E-Summit, October 15th and 16th”
You Got Covered – Now Know Your Rights
Corey Prachniak serves as Chair of LGBT HealthLink’s Steering Committee, and is an LGBT rights and healthcare attorney. Corey tweets @LGBTadvocacy. It’s hard to believe that it has been more than four months since LGBT HealthLink, in conjunction with Promo Found, launched the LGBT Healthcare Bill of Rights. So far, this initiative has been endorsed by nearly 90 organizations rangingContinue reading “You Got Covered – Now Know Your Rights”
Coming Out for Equal Rights in Healthcare
Corey Prachniak serves as Chair of LGBT HealthLink’s Steering Committee, and is an LGBT rights and healthcare attorney. Corey tweets @LGBTadvocacy. A few weeks before my closest aunt came to visit me in college, I came out to her in the P.S. of an unrelated email. The content of the confession was as timid as itsContinue reading “Coming Out for Equal Rights in Healthcare”
Missouri Case Study 10 – Making LGBT Health Matter in Missouri Hospitals
Andrew Shaughnessy Manager of Public Policy, PROMO Missouri @andrewshag This year has proven to be a monumental year for LGBT Missourians. Those monumental steps have been the recognition of out-of-state marriages by the State of Missouri, and the leadership of nearly 47 Missouri hospitals, who have included 105 new LGBT welcoming policies to their coreContinue reading “Missouri Case Study 10 – Making LGBT Health Matter in Missouri Hospitals”
#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 2: Community-based research is still important
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”
#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”
#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”
PRESS RELEASE: 2014 LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER SURVEY REPORT
(Click on Image to Enlarge) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE With Significant Revenue Growth and Innovative Programs, LGBT Community Centers Serve Over 1.9 Million People Annually Denver, CO & Ft. Lauderdale, FL; June 10, 2014 —Providing vital services to more than 1.9 million people annually, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community centers reported increased revenue for 2013,Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE: 2014 LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER SURVEY REPORT”
LGBT HealthLink, The Network for Health Equity 