Daniella Matthews-Trigg Program Associate National LGBT Health Awareness Week 2013 Remember how awesome Health Awareness Week was last year?! Well we have excellent news for you: It’s happening again! There is a lot to celebrate this year in the land of LGBT health! Some LGBT health-related highlights this year… CDC Reaches OutContinue reading “Happy NATIONAL LGBT HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2013”
Category Archives: National Coalition for LGBT Health
Chicago- Keeping Queers Healthy and Making Us Proud!
By Simone Koehlinger, Psy.D. Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago Chicago, IL “Not So Second City” It’s important to keep us queers and our health needs on people’s radars. I often brag about Chicago’s passionate community activists, dedicated providers, and our health department. With one of the last offices of LGBT Health in theContinue reading “Chicago- Keeping Queers Healthy and Making Us Proud!”
Conversations with Exhibitors.
Hector Martinez Blogging Scholarship Winner Reporting from Creating Change January 2012 Baltimore, MD The exhibition booths at the Creating Change Conference look great. I stopped by a couple of them to ask some questions. I asked Dave Reynolds, Project Director from the Safe & Healthy LGBT Youth Project, what his plans are forContinue reading “Conversations with Exhibitors.”
Opening Remarks By HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius At The National Coalition For LGBT Health’s Annual Meeting
Gustavo Torrez, Program Manager The Network for LGBT Health Equity Reporting from the National Coalition for LGBT Health Annual Meeting I am currently in Washington DC for the National Coalition for LGBT Health’s Annual Meeting. There has been a an amazing line up of speakers today from the Secretary of Health andContinue reading “Opening Remarks By HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius At The National Coalition For LGBT Health’s Annual Meeting”
SAMHSA leading the way in LGBT inclusion
Liz Margolies Director, National LGBT Cancer Network Reporting from the National Coalition for LGBT Health Annual Meeting I am in Washington DC, at the National Coalition for LGBT Health’s annual meeting. I had the joy of listening to Pam Hyde, Administrator of SAMHSA this morning. Pam talk was poignant, as sheContinue reading “SAMHSA leading the way in LGBT inclusion”
Affordable Care Act to Improve LGBT Data Collection, Stakeholders Call Tomorrow
By Gustavo Torrez Program Manager, Network for LGBT Health Equity The Network is pleased to report that Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 29, 2011 There will be a Stakeholders Call where Garth Graham , Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and Sherry Glied, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation will make an important announcement regarding howContinue reading “Affordable Care Act to Improve LGBT Data Collection, Stakeholders Call Tomorrow”
Backstory, win, & work ahead: Secty Announces HHS Will Collect LGBT Data
by Scout Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity A project of The Fenway Institute in Boston, MA **Wanna cut to the news? Skip down to Today’s News section** Have we mentioned data yet? Folk know how we’ve been part of the science advocacy block asking for LGBT data collection for years now. Way backContinue reading “Backstory, win, & work ahead: Secty Announces HHS Will Collect LGBT Data”
PopCtr Mtg: Panel Discussion on Probability and Non-Probability Methods
by Scout Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity A project of The Fenway Institute in Boston, MA SCIENCEBABBLE ALERT – This is a meeting for scientists, despite my efforts, some of this may get technical. 411 on the issue Probability sampling = getting a group of people for your research that is statistically proven toContinue reading “PopCtr Mtg: Panel Discussion on Probability and Non-Probability Methods”
Center for Population Research in LGBT Health Holds Annual Convening
by Scout Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity A project of The Fenway Institute in Boston, MA My Non-Sampling Error Experience Ok, I’ve fled from the very exciting Netroots Nation conference to get back to Boston because today and tomorrow mark the 3rd annual convening of one of The Fenway Institute’s other major initiatives, theContinue reading “Center for Population Research in LGBT Health Holds Annual Convening”
Breaking News! NY Hospitals Announce Mandatory LGBT Cultural Competency Trainings
by Scout Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity A project of The Fenway Institute in Boston, MA Reporting from Bellevue Hospital, NY I’m down here in NYC and very, very happy to be at the press conference where New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation just announced mandatory LGBT cultural competency training for all theirContinue reading “Breaking News! NY Hospitals Announce Mandatory LGBT Cultural Competency Trainings”
LGBT HealthLink, The Network for Health Equity 