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PRESS RELEASE: FINDINGS FROM CDC’S NATIONAL ADULT TOBACCO SURVEY SHOWS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE AMONG LGBT RESPONDENTS VERSUS GENERAL POPULATION

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         September 20, 2012     Contact:     Chris Viveiros 617.927.6342 / 617.721.7494                                        Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE: FINDINGS FROM CDC’S NATIONAL ADULT TOBACCO SURVEY SHOWS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE AMONG LGBT RESPONDENTS VERSUS GENERAL POPULATION”

PopCtr Mtg: LGBT Data Inclusion on the Health Center Level

By Emilia Dunham Program Associate, Reporting on the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health at The Fenway Institute on Panel presentation on possibilities and challenges working with patient data with Judy Bradford, Chris Grasso, Ken Mayer, Valerie Fein-Zachary   Data, data and more data. Perhaps to some it seems like we talk about dataContinue reading “PopCtr Mtg: LGBT Data Inclusion on the Health Center Level”

CDC Releases Historic Disparities Report: News on LGBT Health? No Data.

Scout Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity   CDC Releases First of New Reports on Health Disparities I have to confess, back in college when I worked at a health library, there was one publication that I would regularly mock, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Yup, nothing seemed to quite encapsulate “scintillating” as muchContinue reading “CDC Releases Historic Disparities Report: News on LGBT Health? No Data.”

LGBT Surveillance: Next Steps for the Federal Government Summary

On Monday, November 22nd, we held a BrownBag Webinar called “LGBT Surveillance: Next Steps for the Federal Government.” The call focused on a discussion on federal opportunities for LGBT data to be considered for inclusion in national surveillance (surveys). The crux of the conversation’s goal was to gather Lessons Learned from stories that callers sharedContinue reading “LGBT Surveillance: Next Steps for the Federal Government Summary”