Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity Sometimes you have throwaway days, then sometimes you have really high impact ones, right? Well, today was about as high impact as it gets. Myself and others have been nudging NIH to open communications with LGBTI researchers for years and today I hadContinue reading “Reportout from NIH’s 1st LGBTI Listening Session”
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Brainstorming on New LGBT Health Research Textbook
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity I’ve had the pleasure for the last few days to be brainstorming with a bunch of other LGBT scientists at the very top of a crazy beautiful building at University of Pittsburgh, their Cathedral of Learning. Our host is Dr. Ron Stall and allContinue reading “Brainstorming on New LGBT Health Research Textbook”
Live from the Talk To Your Doctor Launch Event In DC
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity I’m in DC at the National Press Club now for the launch of the CDC Tips from Former Smokers sub-campaign, entitled, Talk To Your Doctor, or TTYD to acronymites. Hopefully you’ve all been seeing the Tips from Former Smokers ads that have been inContinue reading “Live from the Talk To Your Doctor Launch Event In DC”
After Quite a Long Time: Federal Cultural Competency WIN!
by Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity with additional reporting from the esteemed Daniella Matthews-Trigg Sometimes you really do have to wait for good things to happen. So if you didn’t catch the news earlier this week we wanted to start your weekend off by reporting on the progressContinue reading “After Quite a Long Time: Federal Cultural Competency WIN!”
Nebraska Travelogue: Great LGBT Research Being Done Here
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity My first meeting yesterday was with the Midlands Sexual Health Research Collaborative, what an active group of folk! Loved hearing about their educational campaigns and was pretty impressed by the 700+ person survey Dr. Fisher and the others conducted a few years ago forContinue reading “Nebraska Travelogue: Great LGBT Research Being Done Here”
Nebraska Travelogue: Everyone Meet the National LGBT Expert Day
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity I was up early and out late yesterday because Athena had a huge day planned for me in Nebraska, 7 meetings, 2 of them presentations. Athena is a lead on the Metro Omaha Tobacco Action Coalition, or MOTAC. MOTAC worked with local groups toContinue reading “Nebraska Travelogue: Everyone Meet the National LGBT Expert Day”
Nebraska Travelogue: Smokeless Diva Drag Pageant?
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity Uh-oh met the great tobacco team over at U of Nebraska Medical Center and boy have they upped the game! Little did I know they already have an LGBT outreach person working on tobacco control, the great Ariss Rogel Mendoza. And our old friendContinue reading “Nebraska Travelogue: Smokeless Diva Drag Pageant?”
The Nebraska Travelogue: Example of Network LGBT Technical Assistance to States
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity Since we’re funded by the CDC Office of Smoking & Health (OSH) to link people & information we find much of our work is naturally helping the 50 state departments of health OSH also funds connect with people and information on LGBT tobacco &Continue reading “The Nebraska Travelogue: Example of Network LGBT Technical Assistance to States”
New Resource to Guide Trans Inclusion on Surveys
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity I’ve had the pleasure of working with some brilliant people for a few years now as part of the Williams Institute workgroup on Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance, aka GenIUSS group! As more and more of us get pinged by feds and states aboutContinue reading “New Resource to Guide Trans Inclusion on Surveys”
Missouri Hospital Incident Highlights Need for Awareness & Training on LGBT Health Protections
Scout, Ph.D. Director, The Fenway Institute’s Network for LGBT Health Equity This morning Bill Snook at Kansas City Department of Health informed us of a sad incident that occurred at one of their hospitals. According to reports, a gay man was denied access to his partner because the hospital refused to acknowledge him as family.Continue reading “Missouri Hospital Incident Highlights Need for Awareness & Training on LGBT Health Protections”
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