LGBTQ+ Health.
SPH THIS WEEK | SPECIAL EDITION
June 5, 2022
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DEAN'S NOTE
In a new Dean's Note, Dean Sandro Galea celebrates Pride Month in a time of progress and challenge for LGBTQ+ health.
The updated plan embodies our continued commitment to DEIJ and provides a framework for advancing this work throughout all that we do.
RESEARCHA new study coauthored by Sarah Lipson found that gender-queer/nonconforming students had the highest risk of developing eating disorder symptoms. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTIn this databyte by PHP fellow Bethany Hallenborg, the graph provides a snapshot comparing home ownership between LGBT and cisgender straight individuals. |
SCHOOL NEWS
Patricia Elliott, clinical associate professor of community health sciences, received the Educational Innovation Award, and Stephen Murray, a recent MPH graduate, received the School of Public Health’s Best Student Abstract Award.
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LGBTQ+ Health Research, News, and Interviews.
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SCHOOL NEWS
After the June 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.—the second-deadliest mass shooting in the US, which took the lives of 50 people at the gay nightclub—SPH produced a four-day video and social media campaign to draw attention to the toxic mix of gun violence and hate crimes, and call for sensible gun safety policies that are just as urgent today as they were six years ago.
In the Media.
NEW YORK TIMES
Quotes Andrew Stokes, assistant professor of global health.
AP NEWS
Quotes Gregory Wellenius, professor of environmental health and director of the Center for Climate and Health.
SALON
Quotes Kevin Lane, assistant professor of environmental health, and PhD student Paige Brochu.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights.
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