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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”

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”

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.”

Scout, Ph.D. Director of CenterLink’s Network for LGBT Health Equity I assure you, we have plenty of ideas which are horrible, but some of them are good, and a few might even be great. Last Fall, as the head of the Cancer Network (Liz) and I were talking over how to spread more LGBT wellnessContinue reading “Network Pitches HuffPost to Launch Wellness Page & They Do!!!”

Tracy McCreery Manager of Public Policy, PROMO Hi, my name is Tracy, and yes, like Scout said in his intro post, I’ve been leading an LGBT health policy change project in Missouri for the last year. It’s really been a fascinating journey, and as I get ready to end my tenure on this project (andContinue reading “Hello from PROMO & SAGE Metro St. Louis’ LGBT Health Policy Change Project”

Scout, Ph.D. Director of CenterLink’s Network for LGBT Health Equity Who’s got some of the best funded and staffed health policy change work in the country? Stop thinking coasts, because the answer will surprise you… Missouri. For a little over a year now the Missouri Foundation for Health has been funding locals to use theirContinue reading “Lessons from a Big State LGBT Health Policy Change Project”

    Scout, Ph.D. Director of CenterLink’s Network for LGBT Health Equity       As we rebuild and retool under the new cancer & tobacco cooperative agreement there’s lots of great things percolating that we want to tell you about. First and foremost, let’s introduce our newest compatriots in the fight. Because when CDCContinue reading “Introducing our Collaboration with the National LGBT Cancer Network!”

Scout, Ph.D. Director of CenterLink’s Network for LGBT Health Equity Are you a student interested in health? Then we need you to get graduated and trained as fast as possible — because we desperately need more leaders in LGBT health and health research. We’ve got major gaps in LGBT health research, esp in tobacco &Continue reading “Summary of Our 1st Career Dev Webinar: LGBT Opportunities at NIH”