Search Results < Dean’s Advisory Council on LGBTQI+ Affairs

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Responding to pandemic: Yale professors reflect on COVID-19 public service
As the third anniversary of the pandemic approaches, Abbe R. Gluck and Marcella Nunez-Smith reflect on the roles of a lifetime — creating a national response.
Source: Yale News
10 Feb 2023
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Incarcerated LGBTQ Americans find little to no support system upon release
LGBTQ people are incarcerated at a rate three times higher than the general population. But when they are released from prison, experts say many reentry programs fail to meet their unique needs. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports for our series, Searching for Justice.
Source: PBS News Hour
30 Nov 2022
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Inequities in Medical School Research Could Hinder Workforce Diversity
Yale investigators examined factors that can shape biomedical career paths — research experiences, publications, and funding rates — among medical students in the United States. They found disparities across race, ethnicity, and sex that may contribute to underrepresentation in the field.
Source: YaleNews
26 Oct 2022
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Improving DEI Through "Mission Mapping"
Yale Urology has started a new “mission mapping” technique that could be a game-changing tool in reducing unconscious bias when screening new faculty candidates.
21 Oct 2022
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SGIM Position Statement in Support of the LGBTQIA+ Community
SGIM recognizes that the disparities and gaps in the provision of high quality healthcare for the LGBTQIA+ community is a health justice issue. The organization supports and recommends the following concrete steps in advancing health justice and protecting the rights of this marginalized and oppressed population.
Source: Society of General Internal Medicine
12 Oct 2022
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Marginalized Students Less Likely to Place in Graduate Medical Education
Researchers sought to predict the likelihood of graduate medical education placement by race and ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status.
30 Sep 2022
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To set transgender policy, look to the evidence
Policy debates concerning transgender people are embroiled in the culture wars. Let data and science — not politicians — guide laws.
Source: Nature
27 Sep 2022
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Ensuring Bone Health for Adolescents Identifying as Transgender
With a grant from Women's Health Research at Yale, Dr. Stuart Weinzimer, in collaboration with Drs. Thomas Carpenter and Christy Olezeski, is using sophisticated methods to obtain a picture of the dynamic process of bone development in adolescents undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy.
26 Sep 2022
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How monkeypox spoiled gay men's plans for an invincible summer
Queer men across the U.S. talked to NBC News about the dates they never went on, the sex they never had and the gatherings they avoided due to the viral outbreak.
Source: NBC News
2 Sep 2022
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Amicus Brief Filed to Defend Gender-Affirming Care in Alabama
On Aug. 12, professors from the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Texas Southwestern filed a brief as amici curiae in Eknes-Tucker v. Governor, State of Alabama with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Source: YLS Today
29 Aug 2022
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Chemsex, HIV Risk Require Tailored Harm Reduction Strategies
The complex association between chemsex — a form of sexualized drug use that includes elements of planning and a clear intent to use specific drugs to enhance the sexual experience — and HIV among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) requires deeper understanding and integrated interventions.
Source: Medscape
17 Aug 2022
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New Online Training for Mental Health Providers Benefits LGBTQ Community
Mental health providers can learn to deliver evidence-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive therapy through low-cost online training, which would help deliver more evidence-based mental health care to LGBTQ people and support its implementation across practice settings, according to a new study by Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers.
2 Aug 2022
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Researchers blast Florida’s transgender treatment plan as ‘incorrect and scientifically unfounded’
National medical and legal researchers have issued a report condemning Florida health officials’ plan to block Medicaid coverage for gender-dysphoria treatments, saying the move lacks “any persuasive scientific or medical justification.”
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel
15 Jul 2022
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Team of Experts Provides Critical Review of Florida Medical Report on Transgender Care
As Florida policymakers pursue state-level restrictions on transgender care, legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham have released a new report that identifies and refutes the many unscientific claims behind the effort.
Source: Yale Law School News
13 Jul 2022
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Students Who Experience Mistreatment or Discrimination Are More Likely to Leave Medical School
A Yale-led study finds that second-year medical students who experience mistreatment and discrimination have a higher likelihood of leaving school in subsequent years. Researchers also noticed that recurring mistreatment and discrimination were correlated with higher rates of attrition.
5 Jul 2022
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Scientific Misinformation and Gender Affirming Care: Tools for Providers on the Front Lines
In this commentary piece, Yale faculty and colleagues define gender affirming care and address related scientific misinformation.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health
2 Jul 2022
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Finding a Transgender-Friendly Doctor
Everyone needs a kind doctor they can trust. But it can be a challenge to find medical care that is supportive of and knowledgeable about transgender people’s health. Here’s how to find gender-affirming doctors.
Source: WebMD
28 Jun 2022
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Celebrating Pride Month: PAEA President Kara Caruthers in Conversation with Fellow PA Leaders
Interviewed by PAEA President, Kara Caruthers: ... As we lean into our vision of Health for All and the values of well-being, equity, and inclusion, recognizing Pride Month and eliminating barriers causing the health inequities within the LGBTQ+ community is critical.
Source: PA Education Association (PAEA) Networker: News: Leadership Blog
28 Jun 2022
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Op-Ed: Denying Trans Youth Gender-affirming Care is an Affront to Science and Medical Ethics
Christy Olezeski, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, is co-author of the op-ed "Denying Trans Youth Gender-affirming Care is an Affront to Science and Medical Ethics" in the Los Angeles Times.
Source: Los Angeles Times
13 Jun 2022
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Op-Ed: Denying trans youth gender-affirming care is an affront to science and medical ethics
Legislation attacking medical care for transgender youth marks a new extreme for scientific misinformation in the America. Years of study and scientific scrutiny have established safe, evidence-based guidelines for delivery of lifesaving, gender-affirming care.
Source: Los Angeles Times
13 Jun 2022