Session: LGBT Health Policy & Advocacy

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5124.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

LGBT Health Policy & Advocacy

This session will feature presentations by researchers containing information related to one of three themes. The first theme relates to methodologies used to address the diversity and subpopulations within LGBT communities. The second theme addresses evaluation of adoption of best practices by health care providers. The third theme will address methodological issues related to inclusion of sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and gender identity questions in large scale population surveys.

Learning Objectives: Following attendance at this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe strengths and weakness of methods used to target diverse subpopulations within the LGBT communities 2. Understand and apply evaluation methods to assess the adoption of best practice methods by health care providers 3. Identify concerns and approaches for inclusion of questions that capture information on sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and gender identity in large scale surveys.

Moderator(s):

Michelle Danielson, PhD

12:30 PM

Case for a theory-based injection liquid silicone prevention policy: Promoting transgender adolescent health
Phyllis M. Wallace, DrPH, CHES

12:48 PM

Inter-cultural collaboration for health promotion among gay Latino immigrants
Brad A. Vanderbilt, MPH(c)

1:06 PM

Creating lesbian gay and bisexual visibility through advocating for the collection of sexual orientation data
Randall L. Sell, ScD

1:24 PM

Treatment provider adoption of best practices for serving LGBTQ clients
Gillian Leichtling, BA, Graham Harriman, MA, LPC

1:42 PM

Missing data: Inclusion of sexual and gender identity items on a general population survey
Allegra R. Gordon, MPH, Heather Batson