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News and Announcements

April 24, 2023
Network Canvas will develop a new cloud-based version of their research tool with support of a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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April 14, 2023
ISGMH staff member and graduate student Afiya Sajwani received three awards for their poster on medical mistrust among SGM youth.
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March 14, 2023
Scientists must move beyond documenting LGBTQ health disparities and work toward eliminating them, argue Brian Mustanski and Kathryn Macapagal in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology’s new Viewpoint column.
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December 1, 2022
Postdoctoral scholar alithia zamantakis, PhD, reflects on her personal experience accessing HIV prevention care and how to improve HIV care moving forward.
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November 28, 2022
The ADVOCATE research program is dedicated to clinical and translational health equity for sexual and gender minorities. Drs. Lauren Beach and Sumanas Jordan lead the program as director and associate
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ISGMH in the Media
December 8, 2022 – from Feinberg School of Medicine
December 1, 2022 – from The Daily Northwestern
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Press Releases and Media Advisories
Northwestern experts can speak on issues facing LGBTQ+ communities
October 7, 2022
On the eve of National Coming Out Day, LGBTQ+ communities, allies and the lawmakers working for equality face a host of challenges to progress made in the last decade. Northwestern University faculty members are available to speak to media about efforts to protect marriage equality in the wake of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, “don’t say gay” in school bills, monkeypox, trans health care and more. Read the press release.
Texas abortion ban will likely ‘disproportionately impact trans and marginalized people’
October 5, 2022
A trans man living in Texas may choose to conceal his transgender status to coworkers, friends and even in-laws to protect himself from violence and gender dysphoria. As his abdomen grows due to a pregnancy for which he can no longer legally get an abortion, however, keeping identity private in public spaces may become next to impossible. The abortion ban in Texas imposes the burden of pregnancy — and with it, the burden of potential dysphoria, being outed or violence — on trans and gender nonconforming individuals without viable alternative choices. Read the media advisory.
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