#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”

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”